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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
When the nature of the point, and the Auditory requireth 1it; such points seldom fall out, but when they do, we may do it.
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That it be done with intimation, that it is an external argument, lest those that hear it mistake it.1
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This observed, a Minister may lay aside the person of a Minister, and use mens arguments and reasons, Acts 17. 23. speaking to the people that were ignorant, saith, I saw it written on the Altars to the unknown God: when he would prove that they were created, he saith, In him we live, we move and have our being, as one of you have said we are all his off spring. As if he should say, this Poet hath authority with you, else it were but a weak argument, and if he did it, so may we. Suppose we were to prove the Scriptures to be the Word of God, we may prove it, because its that on which faith is grounded; if in this we do produce humane reasons, we do aright.