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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
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And the Lord may not only justly deprive of such common gifts, but even of ordinary reason and judgment, whereby men become, at least, in the prosecution of their errors, absurd and unreasonable, without all capableness of seeing the weight of a reason, or receiving a conviction, or observing their own folly, and to carry without all respect to credit, honesty, good manners, and such things as are even respected among civil men; yea, sometimes without respect to their own estates, or their own persons, as we may see in the prophets of Baal, 1 King. 18. and many others in Antichrists kingdom; these are called by the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3. 2. unreasonable, or absurd beastly men, as if they wanted reason: this is also a companion of delusion, and a piece of Gods judgement, as is clear from that of Isa. 44. The Lord thinking good, for the abuse of light, to deprive men of reason, as he did Nebuchadnezzar, whereby the vilest and absurdest tentations have access to men, (that otherwayes may be reasonable) to carry them on with greediness, and without all reluctance or contradiction.
And the Lord may not only justly deprive of such common gifts, but even of ordinary reason and judgment, whereby men become, at least, in the prosecution of their errours, absurd and unreasonable, without all capablnesse of seeing the weight of a reason, or receiving a conviction, or observing their own folly, and to carry without all respect to credit, honesty, good manners, and such things as are even respected among civil men; yea, sometimes without respect to their own estates, or their own persons, as we may see in the prophets of Baal, 1 King. 18. and many others in Antichrists kingdom; these are called by the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3. 2. unreasonable, or absurd beastly men, as if they wanted reason: this is also a companion of delusion, and a piece of Gods judgement, as is clear from that of Isa. 44. The Lord thinking good, for the abuse of light, to deprive men of reason, as he did Nebuchadnezar, whereby the vilest and absurdest tentations have accesse to men, (that otherwayes may be reasonable) to carry them on with greedinesse, and without all reluctance or contradiction.