A37042:583
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.
5. After engagement the tentation is strengthened1 by this, lest, by after▪ ceding, their former practice in being so eager, be condemned, and they lose the weight of their Ministry in other things, and their respective followers, which possibly may be more tenacious and zealous than themselves, should be irritated and provoked; which things look to them as greater prejudices, even to the work of the Gospel, than •eir continuing divided. It is written of Luther in his life, That being in conference with Melanchthon and others in his last voyage, he did acknowledge to them, that he had been too vehement and peremptory in the Doctrine of the Sacrament; and when they urged him then to publish something concerning h• same, he replied. That he feared by that to diminish the authority and weight of what he had else appeared into for God, […] therefore did forbear it▪ withal allowing Melanchthon after his death, to do in that as he thought fit:
5. After engagement the tentation is strengthened1 by this, lest, by after▪ ceding, their former practice in being so eager, be condemned, and they lose the weight of their Ministery in other things, and their respective followers, which possibly may be more tenacious and z•alous than themselves, should be irritated and provoked; which things look to them as greater pr•judices, even to the work of the Gospel, than •eir continuing divided. It is written of Luther in his life, That being in conference with Melancthon and others in his last voyage, he did acknowledge to th•m, that he had been too vehement and peremp•ory in the Doctrine of the Sacrament; and when they urged him then to publish something concerning h• same, he replied. That he feared by that to diminish the authority and weight of what he had else appeared into for God, therefore did orbear it witall allowing Melancthn after his death, to do in that as he thought fit: