A37042:579
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. The tentation hath often with it great confidence1 of the justness and equity of their own side▪ and of the unreasonableness of their adversaries. There may be in part much ground for this, where the controversy is some doubtful, disputable thing: How great confidence have both Job and his friends in their debate, So that both of them are frequent in desiring Gods decision, when as neither of them in both matter and manner was fully approvable. Sometimes also there may be a persuasion very satisfying to the party, when yet it is not from God; this was in Galatia, cap. 5. ver. 8. it is like on both sides, even when they were biting and devouring one another; for, we find often in experience, that a disputable thing, being for a time pleaded for, will become as palpably clear, and altogether necessary to these who have disputed for the same, because engagement bribes the light, and perverteth even the wisdom of the just. Hence we see, that the longer one plead for a thing, he becometh more confident therein, because his own pleading secretly prevaileth more with himself▪ ⟨p. 308⟩than reasons proposed by any others to the contrary can.
2. The tentation hath often with it great confidence1 of the justness and equity of their own side▪ and of the unreasonablnesse of their adversaries. There may be in part much ground for this, where the controversie is some doubtfull, disputable thing: How great confidence have both Iob and his friends in their debate, So that both of them are frequent in desiring Gods decision, when as neither of them in both matter and manner was fully approveable. Sometimes also there may be a perswasion very satisfying to the party, when yet it is not from God; this was in Galatia, cap. 5. ver. 8. it is like on both sides, even when they were biting and devouring one another; for, we find often in experience, that a disputable thing, being for a time pleaded for, will become as palpably clear, and altogether necessary to these who have disputed for the same, because engagement bribes the light, and perverteth even the wisdom of the just. Hence we see, that the longer one plead for a thing, he becometh more confident therein, because his own pleading secretly prevaileth more with himself