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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 4: Quest. What may most hopefully be attempted to allay Animosities among Protestants, tha…
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2. Hereby we should, in comparison apprehend all things else to be little. And so our differences about little things would languish and vanish. We should not only know, but consider and feelingly apprehend, that we agree in far greater things than we differ in; and thence be more strongly inclined to hold together by the things wherein we agree, than to contend with one another about the things wherein we differ.
2. Hereby we should, in comparison apprehend all things else to be little. And so our differences about little things would languish and vanish. We should not only know, but consider and feelingly apprehend, that we agree in far greater things than we differ in; and thence be more strongly inclin'd to hold together by the things wherein we agree, than to contend with one another about the things wherein we differ.
3. Hereby our Religion would revive, and become a vital powerful thing; and consequently more grateful to God, and awful to men.
1. More grateful to God, who is not pleased with the stench of Carcasses, or with the dead shows of Religion instead of the living substance. We should hereupon not be deserted of the divine presence, which we cannot but reckon will retire when we entertain him but with insipid formalities. What became of the Christian interest in the world, when Christians had so sensibly diverted from ⟨p. 103⟩minding the great things of Religion to little minute circumstances, about which they affected to busy themselves, or to the pursuit of worldly advantages and delights?