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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.
This Title no body can think is meant to condemn all Contention about matters of Religion as carnal; but since there is too much which is apparently so, it only signifies it to be the Design of the following Discourse to show what Contention that is, and when, or in what case, tho' it hath Religion for it's Object, it may not have it for it's Principle, but that very frequently, the Lust of the Flesh hides it self under that specious Name. And to show wherein, while it affects to hide, yet unawares it discovers it self in ⟨p. ii⟩the management of Affairs of that Sacred kind.
THis Title no body can think is meant to condemn all Contention about matters of Religion as carnal; but since there is too much which is apparently so, it only signifies it to be the Design of the following Discourse to shew what Contention that is, and when, or in what case, tho' it hath Religion for it's Object, it may not have it for it's Principle, but that very frequently, the Lust of the Flesh hides it self under that specious Name. And to shew wherein, while it affects to hide, yet unawares it discovers it self in ⟨p. ii⟩the management of Affairs of that Sacred kind.
Thus it often really is; and then is that noble Cause as ignobly served, as when (according to that Fathers Observation) a man proves to be unfaithful even for the Faith, 1and Sacrilegious for Religion.
- 1Cypr. de Simplie. Prael.