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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.
There is not such a peradventure put to any kind of sin: which showeth that it must be more difficult to be recovered from it, than from other sins; and that therefore Believers, ordinarily at least, must be in a special manner preserved from it. 4. Which doth confirm the former, This delusion is a main spiritual plague; and is often the punishment not of former sins of infirmity, but of not receiving the love of the Truth, and of hypocrisy and proud presumption; and although the Lord is not to be limited and bound up from chastening His own with this rod, yet we may say from experience in the Word, and from the nature of the plague, and other grounds, It is neither the ordinary spot nor rod of His Children; and if at any time it be, it doth speak out readily much spiritual pride, self seeking, lightness, security; wantonness of spirit, ignorance and conceitedness joined with it, want of exercise, or some one thing or other of that kind. And, as we hinted, when they are overtaken,1 we will not readily find in Scripture that such are heads to promote and carry on the design of error.
There is not such a peradventure put to any kind of sin: which sheweth that it must be more difficult to be recovered from it, than from other sins; and that therefore Believers, ordinarily at least, must be in a special manner preserved from it. 4. Which doth confirm the former, This delusion is a main spiritual plague; and is often the punishment not of former sins of infirmity, but of not receiving the love of the Truth, and of hypocrisie and proud presumption; and although the Lord is not to be limited and bound up from chastening His own with this rod, yet we may say from experience in the Word, and from the nature of the plague, and other grounds, It is neither the ordinary spot nor rod of His Children; and if at any time it be, it doth speak out readily much spirituall pride, self seeking, lightnesse, security; wantonnesse of spirit, ignorance and conceitednesse joyned with it, want of exercise, or some one thing or other of that kind. And, as we hinted, when they are overtaken,1 we will not readily find in Scripture that such are heads to promote and carry on the design of error.
- 1When any believers fall in such evils usually the Lord lingularly […] emsor the same.