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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.
it not being to be supposed that while Saints so journ, and are militant here on earth, the intellectuals of all of them will be of the same size, or cast into the same mould, that their light will be of the same clearness, and that they will be all of equal mortification, self-denyednesse, tenderness, un•hy affedness, singleness, holy zeal, resolution, courage and boldness; which as it says, that there will be more clearness▪ and more darkness and doubting amongst them, at least as to some remote things: So it speaks the necessity of mutual Christian for bea•ance▪ compassion▪ and Sympathy▪ And it hath been a very generally received maxim in matters of Conscience, that in dubiis tu•ius ist abstinere, in things that are doubtful (at least as to their very substance (to say so) and not only as to somewhat extrinsic to them) i•s safest▪ to abstain.
it not being to be supposed that while Saints so journ, and are militant here on earth, the intellectuals of all of them will be of the same size, or cast into the same mould, that their light will be of the same clearness, and that they will be all of equal mortification, self-denyednesse, tenderness, un•hy affedness, fingleness, holy zeal, resolution, courrage and boldness; which as it sayes, that there will be more clearness▪ and more darkness and doubting amongst them, at least as to some remote things: So it speaks the necessity of mutual Christian for bea•ance▪ compassion▪ and Sympathie▪ And it hath been a very generally received maxime in matters of Conscience, that in dubiis tu•ius ist abstinere, in things that are doubtful (at least as to their very substance (to say so) and not only as to somewhat extrinsick to them) is safest to abstain.