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Mysterious clouds and mists, shunning the clear light, a little further disclosed in a…Mysterious cloudes and mistes, shunning the cleer light, a little further disclosed in a…
Mysterious clouds and mists, shunning the clear light, a little further disclosed in a short answer to Mr. John Simpsons long appendix, entitled, Truth breaking forth through a cloud and mist of slanders, wherein the charge of slander, so far as it concerneth, both himself and some others, is taken of and removed / by Tho. Gataker ...Mysterious cloudes and mistes, shunning the cleer light, a little further disclosed in a short answer to Mr. John Simpsons long appendix, entituled, Truth breaking forth through a cloud and mist of slanders, wherein the charge of slander, so far as it concerneth, both himself and some others, is taken of and removed / by Tho. Gataker ...
London: printed by E. Griffin, 1648
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Ans. That although a man pretend to humble himself; yet if he make his humiliation, ⟨p. 5⟩repentance, and reformation, a fortress, and tower of defence, the munition, armour, and wall of brass, to defend the Kingdom, and Nation; if he makes his repentance of such omnipotent efficacy, that there is no thunder-bolt so great; no wrath so furious in God; but it will abolish it, without so much, as mentioning the Lord Jesus, who only delivereth us, from the wrath to come, who if he had not delivered us from the desert of the sinfulness of our humiliation, repentance, and reformation, the just wages thereof would have been everlasting fire: we believe such humiliation, is nearer the pride of Lucifer, then true Christian humiliation. 2. That among the great sins of the Kingdom, we believe, that the great esteem, dignifying, and exalting of our own works, doings, and duties, to make our peace with God, is a dethroning our great, and only peace-maker, and thereby a most dangerous enemy to the peace of this Kingdom.
Ans. That although a man pretend to humble himself; yet if he make his humiliation, ⟨p. 5⟩repentance, and reformation, a fortresse, and tower of defence, the munition, armour, and wall of brasse, to defend the Kingdome, and Nation; if he makes his repentance of such omnipotent efficacy, that there is no thunder-bolt so great; no wrath so furious in God; but it will abolish it, without so much, as mentioning the Lord Iesus, who only delivereth us, from the wrath to come, who if he had not delivered us from the desert of the sinfulnesse of our humiliation, repentance, and reformation, the just wages thereof would have been everlasting fire: we beleeve such humiliation, is neerer the pride of Lucifer, then true Christian humiliation. 2. That among the great sinnes of the Kingdome, we beleeve, that the great esteem, dignifying, and exalting of our own works, doings, and duties, to make our peace with God, is a dethroning our great, and only peace-maker, and thereby a most dangerous enemy to the peace of this Kingdome.