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The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
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§. 74. Of censuring all alike.
IX. *Passion makes men judge all alike. True it is that by reason of that natural corruption which hath infected all mankind, all are alike. aThere is no difference. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Thus ba Prophet, and an Apostle also, not in passion, but by immediate instinct of the Spirit, said, There is none righteous, no not one. Yea, in this sense cthe Apostle useth the very words, that are here used, Every man is a liar, and yet no man unjustly blamed. But to judge such as have the Spirit of ⟨p. 151⟩God in them, and are in what they speak guided by the Spirit of God, yea and bring their message from God, to judge them to be as natural unregenerate men are, liars, this is a most unjust imputation. Yet thus did passion make this Prophet judge the Prophets of the Lord that came to him in the name of the Lord, with the word of the Lord, to be. Both passion and hardness of heart made dPharaoh judge Moses and Aaron to be like to the sorcerers and magicians of Egypt. So did eSennacherib judge Hezekiah and his people, and kingdom to be no better then the Kings, people and kingdoms of other nations.