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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.
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.
The fourth ground concerns the use of humane learning, and it is this. That the excellency of humane 1wisdom is not to be used in the testimonies of God. That is, not in preaching the Gospel. I allege ⟨p. 311⟩the Apostles own word, I came not unto you in the excellency of speech, or of wisdom; contrary to those that think, if the Divine truth be found, learning may be laid in it, and the ground work may be wrought with gold. If any think themselves straitened in this opinion, see 1 Cor. 2. 1