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 Word of God tells us that to be carnally minded is Death. These Contests seem therefore to express great solicitude how most neatly to adorn a Carcass, or at best how with greatest Art and Curiosity to trim, and apparel gorgeously, a languishing Man, in the feared approaches of Death, instead of endeavouring to save his Life.

The Word of God tells us that to be carnally minded is Death. These Contests seem therefore to express great solicitude how most neatly to adorn a Carkass, or at best how with greatest Art and Curiosity to trim, and apparel gorgeously, a languishing Man, in the feared approaches of Death, instead of endeavouring to save his Life.

But if any endeavour to that purpose were yet to be used; what should it be? That any Man should go about to propose to the Christian Church, were both presumptuous, and hopeless. We can only speak our Wishes, to Men, and offer them in solemn Supplications to God. And it were an happy Omen, if good Men could once agree what, in particular, to Pray for; it being out of question that such Men, would not be guilty of so much Hypocrisy, as to their uttermost, not seriously to endeavour, what they durst adventure, and thought it necessary to make the Subject of their Prayers.

But if any endeavour to that purpose were yet to be used; what should it be? That any Man should go about to propose to the Christian Church, were both presumptuous, and hopeless. We can only speak our Wishes, to Men, and offer them in solemn Supplications to God. And it were an happy Omen, if good Men could once agree what, in particular, to Pray for; it being out of question that such Men, would not be guilty of so much Hypocrisie, as to their uttermost, not seriously to endeavour, what they durst adventure, and thought it necessary to make the Subject of their Prayers.