A30136:169
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1672
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When you come to appear before me, Who hath required these things at your hands, to tread my Courts? Bring no more vain oblations, incense is an abomination to me: The new Moons and the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new Moons, and your appointed Feasts my Soul hateth, they are a trouble to me, my Soul hateth, I am even weary to bear them. Isa. 1.11, 12, 13, 14. And yet all these were his own appointments. But why then did he thus abhor them? Because they retained the evil of their ⟨p. 115⟩doings, and used them as they did other of his appointments. viz. For strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. chap. 58.4. Wherefore when that of God, that is great, is overweighed by that which is small; it is the wisdom of them that see it, to put load to the other end of the scale; until the things thus abused, poise in their own place. But to pass this, and proceed.
When you come to appear before me, Who hath required these things at your hands, to tread my Courts? Bring no more vain oblations, incense is an abominatien to me: The new Moons and the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblyes, I cannot away with; it is iniqui•y, even the solemn meeting. Your new Moons, and your appointed Feasts my Soul hateth, they are a trouble to me, my Soul hateth, I am even weary to bear them. Isa. 1.11, 12, 13, 14. And yet all these were his own appointments. But why then did he thus abhor them? Because they retained the evil of their ⟨p. 115⟩doings, and used them as they did other of his appointments. viz. For strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. chap. 58.4. Wherefore when that of God, that is great, is overweighed by that which is small; it is the wisedom of them that see it, to put load to the other end of the scale; untill the things thus abused, poise in their own place. But to pass this, and proceed.