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Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…
Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham.
Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1685
Title page typeset from the transcription.
To the reader: TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.
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.
Thirdly, and more particularly we would study to have our Conscience well and throughly informed, by intimate acquaintance with the mind and will of God revealed in the Scriptures of truth, as to all things that we are called to believe and do, so that it may be in case to discharge its office and duty aright, whether in Dictating or in Testifying, or in Judging: an ill informed Conscience, especially where there is any zeal, or forwardness, strongly pusheth and furiously driveth men to many dangerous, distracted and destructive practices; hath not this driven men to kill the servants of Christ (as himself foretold) and in doing so to think that they did God service? did not this hurry on Paul, before his conversion, to persecute Callers on the name of the Lord Jesus▪ and to make havoc of the Church, by drawing, and dragging the disciples both men and women bound to Prison, and by ⟨image 6⟩cruel persecuting of them even to strange cities, compelling them to blaspheme? so exceedingly mad was he (as himself confesseth) against them; O! what terrible and tragical things hath▪ this set men on to do, and what m•d work hath it made in some places of the world, beside many lesser impertinences, extravagances and disturbances in particular Christian Societies.
Thirdly, and more particularly we would study to have our Conscience well and throughly informed, by intimat acquaintance with the minde and will of God revealed in the Scriptures of truth, as to all things that we are called to believe and do, so that it may be in case to discharge its office and dutie aright, whether in Dictating or in Testifying, or in Iudging: an ill informed Conscience, especially where there is any zeal, or forwardness, strongly pusheth and suriously driveth men to many dangerous, distracted and destructive practices; hath not this driven men to kill the servants of Christ (as himself foretold) and in doing so to think that they did God service? did not this hurry on Paul, before his conversion, to persecute Callers on the name of the Lord Jesus▪ and to make havock of the Church, by drawing, and dragging the disciples both men and women bound to Prison, and by ⟨image 6⟩