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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 9
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3. If there had been nothing that seemed difficult to you, would you not have despised its simplicity, and have thought your selves wise enough at the first Reading and needed no more?
The fourteenth Excuse. There were so many seeming Contradictions in the Scripture, and so many strange improbable things, that I could not believe it.
Answ. The contradictions were in your fancy, that did not understand the word which you read. Must the raw unexperienced Learner despise his book or Teacher, as oft as in his ignorance he thinks he meets with contradictions? Did you think God was no wiser then you, and understood not himself, because you understood him not? Nor could ⟨p. 125⟩reconcile his own words, because you could not reconcile them? You would needs be a Judge of the Law, instead of obeying it, and speak evil of it, rather then do it, Jam. 4.11.