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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Lastly, It's apt to breed fickleness, inconstancy and scepticism. Are there not many called Seekers, that think there is now no Church since the Apostles times, and therefore are in their souls, what Cain in his body, vagabonds about the earth? and whence is all this? The bitter root of this was diversity of opinions, which they entertain one after another, which at last makes them quite without any bottom at all.
Lastly, It's apt to breed ficklenesse, inconstancy and scepticism. Are there not many called Seekers, that think there is now no Church since the Apostles times, and therefore are in their souls, what Cain in his body, vagabonds about the earth? and whence is all this? The bitter root of this was diversity of opinions, which they entertain one after another, which at last makes them quite without any bottom at all.
Use of Instruction, to every Christian again and again, to take heed of causing divisions in the Church of God; Be afraid by any opinion or practice to make an unnecessary rent; for doest thou not as much as lieth in thee to hinder all others from coming to the Kingdom of Heaven? Will not this be a sad aggravation, when men damned in hell shall plead, Lord, I was coming, even I was hopefully inclining to such things, but this man and that man by his division stopped me, he made me a proselyte to some pernicious way, while I was going to Christ? Had not such a man been in the way, I had never been seduced? Certainly, if our Saviour pronounce such a woe to those by whom offences come, how sore will it fall upon those who make these offences in the highest nature?
Ʋse of Instruction, to every Christian again and again, to take heed of causing divisions in the Church of God; Be afraid by any opinion or practice to make an unnecessary rent; for doest thou not as much as lieth in thee to hinder all others from coming to the Kingdom of Heaven? Will not this be a sad aggravation, when men damned in hell shall plead, Lord, I was coming, even I was hopefully inclining to such things, but this man and that man by his division stopt me, he made me a proselyte to some pernicious way, while I was going to Christ? Had not such a man been in the way, I had never been seduced? Certainly, if our Saviour pronounce such a woe to those by whom offences come, how sore will it fall upon those who make these offences in the highest nature?