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Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…
Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodwin B.D.Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodvvin B.D.
London: printed by M. Flesher for John Rothwell, 1637London: printed by M. Flesher for Iohn Rothwell, 1637
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Secondly, when men endeavour to suppress knowledge. As the Pharisees, they kept the keys of ⟨p. 59⟩it in their hands, and would not open the treasures of it themselves, nor let others do it neither. So they (Acts 4. 16.) could not deny but a great miracle was done by the Apostles (say themselves) but that it spread no further, let us threaten them, and charge them, that they speak no more in his name. And this they did against their consciences by their own profession, we cannot deny it: as if they had said, if we could we would, but it was too manifest it was the truth. So when Masters keep their servants from the means of knowledge, they are thus guilty.
Secondly, when men endeavour to suppresse knowledge. As the Pharisees, they kept the keyes of ⟨p. 59⟩it in their hands, and would not open the treasures of it themselves, nor let others doe it neither. So they (Acts 4. 16.) could not deny but a great miracle was done by the Apostles (say themselves) but that it spread no further, let us threaten them, and charge them, that they speake no more in his name. And this they did against their consciences by their owne profession, we cannot deny it: as if they had said, if wee could we would, but it was too manifest it was the truth. So when Masters keep their servants from the meanes of knowledge, they are thus guilty.
Thirdly, when we would make others sin §3against their consciences.1 The Pharisees, when the blind man would not say as they said, they cast him out; they would have had him say that Christ was a sinner, when through the small light he had, he judged it evident enough, that a sinner should not do such a miracle, as was never done since the world began. And so Jezebel made the Judges, and witnesses sin against conscience in accusing Naboth: and so some of the Gentiles, that would hold correspondency with the Jews, would have constrained the Galatians to be circumcised,