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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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3. That to draw Scriptures thus in, as here, and before, to parallel, and bear out such speeches, as both that before, and th•s here, are, is to play, and dally with Gods word, and to be boulder with it, then Christian piety will well permit.
4. That it is a poor shift to help out such a loose speech, to tell us, that let is not always a note of exhortation, when as the matter of the proposition, and manner of the conceiving it in those terms, sin as fast as they will, sound overmuch, and over loud, in any ordinary construction, to an incitement to wilful sin, for which, the though substitute in the room of let, is but a very sorry salv.
4. That it is a poore shift to help out such a loose speech, to tell us, that let is not alwayes a note of exhortation, when as the matter of the proposition, and manner of the conceiving it in those terms, sin as fast as they will, sound overmuch, and over loud, in any ordinary construction, to an incitement to willfull sin, for which, the though substitute in the room of let, is but a very sorry salv.
As for this application of it to my self, that I have sinned, as fast, as I can, in his apprehension, and yet if God give me faith, I may wash my self from these sins. I take the former branch as a fruit of his own selfish fancy, and the latter, as a frothy flout, and so leave them to him; and this whole apology for my self, to the censure of those that are of understanding, and ability, to descry, and discover the slights of imposters, th•ough such colours, as they are wont to glaze over their unsound tenets withal; and their shifts, in varying from point to point, as they find the blast of popular applause to blow.