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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.
It may and ought to be studied, as it prepares the understanding to deliver the Divine truth, and therefore 1Students are to be exhorted to study it as a necessary help, so that he is a Lay-man that wants it.
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It may be used in preaching, yet not in the substance 1and words of the Author, for that is to mingle chaff with wheat. It is certain, all our weapons must be spiritual, yet we may sharpen our weapons at the forge of Heathen Writers, they may have an influence into our Sermons, as the Stoics say. When we give hey unto our beasts, we look not for hey again, but for fruit, wool and milk So we must not utter them in the same words, but digest and turn them in succum & sanguinem, that the understanding may be strengthened, and then we may deliver them the better. The Israelites must not put the jewels that they took from the Egyptians into the Temple in the same manner, but melted. So humane Writers may not be used in the same fashion we take them, but melte• & turned into another shape, we may use them. Paul is plain for it, I came not in the excellency of speech or wisdom; where two things are spoken against (1.) the mingling of the Word with corrupt glosses, (2.) delivering it so mingled.
It may be used in preaching, yet not in the substance 1and words of the Author, for that is to mingle chaff with wheat. It is certain, all our weapons must be spiritual, yet we may sharpen our weapons at the forge of Heathen Writers, they may have an influence into our Sermons, as the Stoicks say. When we give hey unto our beasts, we look not for hey again, but for fruit, wool and milk So we must not utter them in the same words, but digest and turn them in succum & sanguinem, that the understanding may be strengthened, and then we may deliver them the better. The Israelites must not put the jewels that they took from the Egyptians into the Temple in the same manner, but melted. So humane Writers may not be used in the same fashion we take them, but melte & turned into another shape, we may use them. Paul is plain for it, I came not in the excellency of speech or wisdom; where two things are spoken against (1.) the mingling of the Word with corrupt glosses, (2.) delivering it so mingled.