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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These Jews had Divine Right to plead, and the usage and practice of all the seed of the Faithful, enough to stagger a weak Christian; Errors fairly set off may pass for Truths, and if but weakly confuted may hang a doubt in Mens minds: so Truths ill guarded may go for Errors; objections not well cleared had better never have been started, for they may puzzle a weak Head and Heart, and make them both ache with fear of mistakes. A Sophistical Disputant will prove there is no Motion, the best way to confute him is in our Saviours words, rise up and walk, John 5.8. which is a real silent demonstration of it.
These Jews had Divine Right to plead, and the usage and practice of all the seed of the Faithful, enough to stagger a weak Christian; Errors fairly set off may pass for Truths, and if but weakly confuted may hang a doubt in Mens minds: so Truths ill guarded may go for Errors; objections not well cleared had better never have been started, for they may puzzle a weak Head and Heart, and make them both ake with fear of mistakes. A Sophistical Disputant will prove there is no Motion, the best way to confute him is in our Saviours words, rise up and walk, John 5.8. which is a real silent demonstration of it.
III. Nothing so convulseth Mens reason as interest, as Hobs saith, Though there is no Problem in Mathematics more demonstrable than that all strait Lines drawn from the Centre to the Circumference are equal, yet if this did but cross any Mans interest it would be disputed. Now 1 John 2.16. the Apostle reduceth the whole World to those three Elements, the lust of the Flesh, the lust of the Eye, and the pride of Life; a threefold cord, strong enough to pull any Truth in pieces, as easily as Sampson did his Wyths.
III. Nothing so convulseth Mens reason as interest, as Hobs saith, Though there is no Problem in Mathematicks more demonstrable than that all strait Lines drawn from the Center to the Circumference are equal, yet if this did but cross any Mans interest it would be disputed. Now