A37042:431
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.
Now, the applying of what is spoken of the general and second resurrection to this particular and first resurrection, is so gross, that Paul doth not dispute with but Sentence such blasphemers and abusers of the Scripture; for, it is clear, that they did not deny the Scripture, or a resurrection simply, but did grossly and irrationally misapply ⟨p. 226⟩the same: of this sort, are such as will admit of no distinctions, nor consequences, nor different acceptions of words and phrases, and such like: for, according to these grounds, the Scripture is made to disagree from it self, to give no certain sound in any thing, and to infer many absurdities, which is blasphemous to think.
Now, the applying of what is spoken of the generall and second resurrection to this particular and first resurrection, is so grosse, that Paul doth not dispute with but Sentence such blasphemers and abusers of the Scripture; for, it is clear, that they did not deny the Scripture, or a resurrection simply, but did grosly and irrationally misapply ⟨p. 226⟩the same: of this sort, are such as will admit of no distinctions, nor consequences, nor different acceptions of words and phrases, and such like: for, according to these grounds, the Scripture is made to disagree from it self, to give no certain sound in any thing, and to infer many absurdities, which is blasphemous to think.
Assert. 3. It is not to be thought that that only is conviction, 1which putteth the adverse party to silence, or that when convincing of gainsayers is commanded, that that only is intended: for, men of corrupt unruly spirits (as the Apostle saith) wax worse and worse, and do resist the truth, as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, 2 Tim. 3. 8. and are therefore called reprobate concerning the faith; yea, sometimes the more they be pinched and bound, the more they cry out, and will not yield to convincing truth, as we see,