A37042:545
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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2. Sometimes it floweth from the mistake of some1 dispensations, and the suspecting of the sincerity and integrity one of another; whereby sometimes men are engaged ere they wit, to maintain their prejudice, and to lay the less weight upon light holden forth by others, It was thus with Jobs friends, who, mis-interpreting Gods hand upon him, and concluding uncharitably of his state, are brought to maintain an unwarrantable These for making out of their point.
2. Sometimes it floweth from the mistake of some1 dispensations, and the suspecting of the sincerity and integrity one of another; whereby sometimes men are engaged ere they wit, to maintain their prejudice, and to lay the lesse weight upon light holden forth by others, It was thus with Iobs friends, who, mis-interpreting Gods hand upon him, and concluding uncharitably of his state, are brought to maintain an unwarrantable These for making out of their point.
- 1The mistake of some dispensations.
3. It may arise from different apprehensions about1 some persons, or from a different manner of doing the same thing, or from the use-making of different persons; As when one would have such a man to be a Minister, another doth not think him worthy; When one doth think such a man deserveth not to be a Minister, and another thinketh that he doth; when such different thoughts about persons, means or manner of doing things, (which are incident to the best of men) are followed with different actings accordingly, and none doth cede to another, then necessarily followeth contention and division▪ So Paul thought John Mark not meet to be taken to the Ministry again in their company, seeing he had left them; Barnabas did think him meet and would have him, whereupon the contention and division followed.