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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
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Short and Plain Animadversions on Mr. Dells SERMON. Discovering therein Many passages to be destructive to Church and State, the COVENANT, and Reformation so much desired.
Short and Plaine Animadversions on Mr. Dells SERMON. Discovering therein Many passages to be destructive to Church and State, the COVENANT, and Reformation so much desired.
Christian Reader,
The distractions and divisions of the times (increased by furious spirits venting their luxuriant opinions) threaten sad things; as if God hath a controversy with the Land, and is writing bitter things against it; or, as if the Troubles we have hitherto undergone, were but the beginning of our sorrows: Fox *in his Acts and Monuments reports that the inlet to the eighth Persecution, was the Divisions among the Christians, and want of Discipline; I wish it be not an inlet to as sad a calamity now. I can appeal to heaven, I delight not in bitterness, and breaches among brethren; I had rather bring water to quench, then oil to increase the flame that is kindled among us; I could wish with Jonah I were cast into the Sea, so that the boisterous storms arisen among us might be allayed thereby; or with Curtius (who did cast himself into the Chasm at Rome, that so the breach might be made up and the City not endangered) cast my self into the breach, if so be I could but stop it. I acknowledge to God and the world, I am so sensible of my own infirmities that I would bring nothing into the Press, but that I am pressed thereunto, lest the Truth and my Integrity should suffer by my silence. The truth is, had not Mr. Dell discovered such confidence and boldness in delivering so many unsound and erroneous tenets, I had not expressed a word of dislike in the Pulpit, and had he not since Printed his Sermon with his Reply (and that without order) I should