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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 3: Quest. How the uncharitable and dangerous Contentions that are among Professors of the…
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GALAT. V. 15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
MY Business from this Scripture is to enquire into the Cause, the Danger, and the Cure of uncharitable Contentions in the Church of God.
The Holy Apostle Paul having some few Years before planted a Church in Galatia, a region in the upper parts of the lesser Asia, there soon crept in a sort of false Teachers; who contended, that the Mosaical Ceremonies, in particular, that Circumcision was still to be observed, even by the believing Gentiles; and that the Christians were not justified before God by Faith, but by the Works of the Law. Which two Errors, when he had fully confuted in the former part of this Epistle, he Applies in this Chapter and in the Next. 1. By way of Exhortation, to stand fast in this their Christian Liberty, ver. 1. which he backs with divers Arguments. 2. By way of Direction, to use the same aright, not for an occasion to the Flesh, ver. 13. the Works whereof he afterwards reckons up at large; but rather, that they should by Love serve one another, and abound in all Holiness and Goodness, which he enlargeth upon in the rest of this Chapter and in the Next.
The Holy Apostle Paul having some few Years before planted a Church in Galatia, a region in the upper parts of the lesser Asia, there soon crept in a sort of false Teachers; who contended, that the Mosaical Ceremonies, in particular, that Circumcision was still to be observed, even by the believing Gentiles; and that the Christians were not justified before God by Faith, but by the Works of the Law. Which two Errors, when he had fully confuted in the former part of this Epistle, he Applies in this Chapter and in the Next. 1. By way of Exhortation, to stand fast in this their Christian Liberty, ver. 1. which he backs with divers Arguments. 2. By way of Direction, to use the same aright, not for an occasion to the Flesh, ver. 13. the Works whereof he afterwards reckons up at large; but rather, that they should by Love serve one another, and abound in all Holiness and Goodness, which he inlargeth upon in the rest of this Chapter and in the Next.