A37042:83
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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12. Offences may be considered as they directly1 incline or tempt to sin, either in doctrine or practice; or, as they more indirectly scare and divert from, or make more faint and weak in the pursuing of holiness either in truth or practice: Thus a blot in some professor maketh Religion to be some way abhorred; this especially falleth out when Ministers and Professors that are eminent, become offensive: For that is as a dead fly in the box of the Apothecaries ointment▪ that maketh all to stink: Thus, Mal. 1. the Priests made the people stumble at the Law; as also did the sons of Eli, 1 Sam. 2. and this is charged on David, that by his fall he made the Heathen blaspheme: ⟨p. 13⟩and thus contention and division amongst Ministers and Disciples is insinuated to stand in the way of the worlds believing in, or acknowledging of Christ, as it is, Joh. 17. 21.
12. Offences may be considered as they directly1 incline or tempt to sin, either in doctrine or practice; or, as they more indirectly scare and divert from, or make more faint and weak in the pursuing of holinesse either in truth or practice: Thus a blot in some professor maketh Religion to be some way abhorred; this especially falleth out when Ministers and Professors that are eminent, become offensive: For that is as a dead fly in the box of the Apothecaries oyntment▪ that maketh all to stink: Thus, Mal. 1. the Priests made the people stumble at the Law; as also did the sons of Eli, 1 Sam. 2. and this is charged on David, that by his fall he made the Heathen blaspheme: ⟨p. 13⟩