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The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…
The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in Broadstreet / by John Howe ...
London: printed by J. A. for Tho. Parkhurt, 1693
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.
by which they might in due time, come to have more truly comfortable apprehensions of the goodness of their state. They more care to be pardoned for being bad, than to become good!
by which they might in due time, come to have more truly comfortable apprehensions of the goodness of their state. They more care to be pardon'd for being bad, than to become good!
Again, on the other hand, there may be some so wholly taken up about what they are in themselves to be and do, and in the earnest, but too abstract, or less Evangelical (and therefore less fruitful) endeavour after higher pitches of Sanctity, without due reference to the Grace, Spirit, and Blood of a Redeemer, that they neglect, and look not afer their Justification, and acceptance with God in him; nor do relish and savour as they ought, the Doctrine of the Gospel herein. Do more incline to a Philosophical (and scarcely Christian) ⟨p. 53⟩Christianity; forgetting Christ to be their Redeemer, their Lord, and Vital Head, and that they are (or ought to be) under his Conduct, and through his Mediation, daily tending to God and Blessedness.
But now upon the whole, when there appears an aptness or disposition to separate these two, Justification and Sanctification from one another, or either of them from abiding in Christ, or to oppose them to one another, or contend about the Priority of the one or the other (when no doubt they go together) and about the Preference or Excellency of the one above the other, which is the more considerable thing: Herein appears much Carnality of Mind, an unsound, injudicious distempered Spirit. And 'tis a like case, as if a Malefactor at the same time is under Sentence, by which he is condemned to die, and under a most dangerous Disease, that appears very probably mortal to him: He has a compassionate Prince, willing to save his Life, and he at once vouchsafes him his Pardon, and provides a very skilful and