A37042:327
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
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.
The unreasonableness of this Spirit in men, would not be thought strange in any of the former respects, even although no person could stop their mouth, but they should seem to themselves to triumph in the bringing-in of unheard▪of senses of Scripture; the more they abound in that, it is the more judicial to them, even as the moe they carry after them, and the more they be forborne by others, it worketh the more to their destruction: men would keep a distance from these infections, none can tell what they may turn unto if once entered in a giddy unstable soul, carried with the spate of a spirit of error, and being given-up of God thereto for itching after it, and not receiving the love of the truth, may come to the most horrible things, and that without shame or remorse, ere there be any end; and on-lookers would acknowledge1 God's justice in such strokes, and learn to reverence and fear him the more.
The unreasonablnesse of this Spirit in men, would not be thought strange in any of the former respects, even although no person could stop their mouth, but they should seem to themselves to triumph in the bringing-in of unheard▪of senses of Scripture; the more they abound in that, it is the more judicial to them, even as the moe they carry after them, and the more they be forborn by others, it worketh the more to their destruction: men would keep a distance from these infections, none can tell what they may turn unto if once entred in a giddy unstable soul, carried with the spait of a spirit of errour, and being given-up of God thereto for itching after it, and not receiving the love of the truth, may come to the most horrible things, and that without shame or remorse, ere there be any end; and on-lookers would acknowledge1 God's justice in such stroaks, and learn to reverence and fear him the more.
- 1The suffering of gross error is a most displeasing thing to Christ.The suffring of gross error is a most displeasing thing to Christ.