A65285:2388
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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3. Ministers are Murderers, who either starve, or poison, or infect Souls.
3. Ministers are Murderers, who either starve, or poyson, or infect Souls.
(1.) That starve Souls. 1 Pet. 5.2. Feed the Flock of God which is among you. These Feed themselves, and starve the Flock: Either through Non-residing they do not Preach, or through Insufficiency they cannot. There are many in the Ministry (a shame to speak it) so ignorant, that they had need to be taught the First Principles of the Oracles of God, Heb. 5.12. Was not he fit to be a Preacher in Israel, (think ye) who being asked something concerning the Decalogue, answered, He never saw any such Book?
(2.) That Poison Souls. Such are Heterodox Ministers, who poison People with Error. The Basilisk poisons Herbs and Flowers by breathing on them. The Breath of Heretical Ministers, like the Basilisk's Breath, poisons Souls. The Socinian, that would rob Christ of his Godhead; the Arminian, that by advancing the Power of the Will, would take off the Crown from the Head of Free-Grace; the Antinomian, who denies the Use of the Moral Law to a Believer, as if it were antiquated and out of date▪ these Poison Mens Souls. Error is as damnable as Vice. 1 Pet. 2.1. There shall he false Teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies, denying the Lord, that bought them.