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Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before…Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before…
Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annexed to the sermon, entitled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annext to the sermon, entituled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.
London: printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamie, 1647London: printed by R. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1647
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.
IT was ordered by a Divine hand, that I should Preach before you in Windsor Castle, at your very first marching forth with this successful Army, at which time I treated (from Psal. 60.10) of Gods marching forth with Israels Army, the footsteps of whose presence hath been seen within your Camp: By the same hand it was likewise ordered, that I should preach in your presence, the very first Fast day after your return to London as a Conqueror; at which time I had a fair occasion to press, That such who had bin serviceable to the Church of God in its necessitous condition, ought from those they do assist to have a requital, in which I know none deserves a greater share then your Excellency. Great General, I have presumed to make my humble and particular address, in dedicating these few lines to your Excellency upon a double ground: 1. To take off a malicious mis-construction, which some made of what I delivered, laying my words on the rack of a tortured mis-interpretation, forcing them to speak what I never meant, as if in some passages of my Sermon, I had some reflections on your Excellent Self; whereas I can appeal to Heaven, I had rather my tongue should cleave to the roof of my mouth, then that a thought should be in my heart, or a word drop from between my lips, to darken that glory which God hath cast upon you. 'Tis true in ⟨image 3⟩handling this Doctrine, That such who are serviceable to the people of God in their necessitous condition, ought from those they do assist, to have a requital, and to be sharers with them in their mercies, Lest there should be an ill use made thereof, as if the requital of men for their service should be so far extended, as that they must be indulged in their evils, I was forced, to prevent this mistake, to lay down this caution, viz. That the requital of men for their good service, must not extend so far as to tolerate them in their evils. *In exemplifying which caution, I gave this supposition, Suppose a Commander, (who hath been valiant and faithful in your most successful and serviceable Army) should run into damnable Heresies, to deny the Divinity of Christ, the Immortality of the soul, the authority of the Scriptures, though his valour and fidelity pleads for a requital for his Service, yet not for a toleration in these opinions.
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