A25466:874
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.
2. Loving converse taketh off those prejudices which hinder Mens minds from a true knowledge of others Principles and Practices; which at a distance seem horrid and monstrous Opinions and Practices, when as a little free converse with them breedeth quite other apprehensions. The Papists picture the Protestants as brutes with Tails, as Devils with Horns, to terrify the Vulgar; but knowing Merchants dare trust them: So some Protestants have represented the Puritans as Pestilent and Seditious persons, as Mad and having a Devil, as the Scribes and Pharisees did John Baptist and Christ; but the plain hearted people saw thorough those pious frauds and tricks, and were astonished at their Doctrine and Life, when they healed Souls and Bodies on the Sabbath day.
2. Loving converse taketh off those prejudices which hinder Mens minds from a true knowledge of others Principles and Practices; which at a distance seem horrid and monstrous Opinions and Practices, when as a little free converse with them breedeth quite other apprehensions. The Papists picture the Protestants as bruits with Tails, as Devils with Horns, to terrifie the Vulgar; but knowing Merchants dare trust them: So some Protestants have represented the Puritans as Pestilent and Seditious persons, as Mad and having a Devil, as the Scribes and Pharisees did John Baptist and Christ; but the plain hearted people saw thorough those pious frauds and tricks, and were astonished at their Doctrin and Life, when they healed Souls and Bodies on the Sabbath day.
3. Sincere love and converse breedeth a good opinion of persons who differ from us; they can taste humility, meekness and kindness better than the more speculative Principles of Religion. These get into Mens affections, and so bore away into their judgments, and cause them to alter their minds. Two Heads, like two Globes, touch but in one point, the whole Bodies at a distance; but two Hearts touch in plano, and fall in with each other in all points. Love openeth the Heart and Ear to cooler consideration and second thoughts. The Spirit of God directed Elijah, 1 Kings 19.12