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A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chapel at the funeral…A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chappel at the funeral…
A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chapel at the funeral of that learned gentleman, Mr. John Langley, late school-master of Pauls School in London, on the 21 day of September, 1657 / by Ed. Reynolds ...A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chappel at the funeral of that learned gentleman, Mr. John Langley, late school-master of Pauls School in London, on the 21 day of September, 1657 / by Ed. Reynolds ...
London: printed by T.N. for George Thomason, 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.
1The issue of this Disputation was, that being worsted at Arguments, these Libertines do betake themselves to calumnies, and false accusations, as the Pharisees when their reasons were spent, were wont to take up stones to throw at Christ. They bring him from a scholastical to a judicial defence, from the college to the Council, and by false witnesses charge him with blasphemy against Moses and God. Whereupon, being pro forma, permitted to make his defence (for persecutors will manage their cruelties under a form of Law, that they may appear the more specious) he doth it largely with much wisdom and courage.
1The issue of this Disputation was, that being worsted at Arguments, these Libertines do betake themselves to calumnies, and false accusations, as the Pharisees when their reasons were spent, were wont to take up stones to throw at Christ. They bring him from a scholastical to a judicial defence, from the •olledge to the Council, and by false witnesses charge him with blasphemy against Moses and God. Whereupon, being pro forma, permitted to make his defence (for persecuters will manage their cruelties under a form of Law, that they may appear the more specious) he doth it largely with much wisdom and courage.
- 1Istae sunt haeretic•rum machinae, ut convic•i de pe•fi•ia, ad ma•edicta se conferant Hier. Apol. 2. advers. Russianum.
The scope of the Sermon is to show (upon a fair Issue with his accusers) that he was not guilty of the charge given in against him, that it did not follow, because he affirmed that Christ would destroy the Temple, and change the customs which Mses delivered, that therefore he blasphemed either Moses or God; The Argument of his justification, is by an Historical Induction. 1. If Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph worshipped God without a Temple, and without such customs as Moses delivered, and Moses did without blasphemy against them, make that alteration which God was pleased to command him to make: Then the Worship of God is not peremptorily