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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.
Modern Divines have greater knowledge in the tongues; 1the Fathers, some were Latins, some Grecians, some Hebrewitians, none had the skill of all three, as Calvin and Beza had.
Modern Divines have greater knowledge in the tongues; 1the Fathers, some were Latines, some Grecians, some Hebrewitians, none had the skill of all three, as Calvin and Beza had.
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They differ in interpreting Scripture; see the best, 1Augustine upon the Psalms, and you would wonder how wide he is in his interpretation. I spare to name them, I acknowledge this, against Pelagius he was wonderfully assisted from God; such broad difference there is in his writings and in his Sermons. Compare Calvin with the best, and he went beyond him, so that in opinion of Divines, he is the best since the Apostles, Qui maximus textualis est optimus Theologus.
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The Fathers spent their strength in particular controversies 1against Pelagius, Arius, &c. that their chief strength ran that way, and when the water runs strong in one channel, it is weakened in another; but modern Writers are stronger in general, and when they wrote against the heresies, they were wonderfully assisted; so that there is no greater difference betwixt them. Their errors were more then the errors of modern Divines. Augustine, after his retractations fell into error, the reason was, because