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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.) That Infect Souls, viz. By their Scandalous Lives. Exod. 19.22. Let the Priests which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves. Ministers who by their Places are nearer to God, should be holier than others. The Elements, the higher they are, the purer. The Air is purer than the Water; the Fire is purer than the Air. The higher Men are by Office, the holier they should be. John Baptist was a shining Lamp. But there are many who infect their People with their Bad Life: They preach one thing, and live another. Qui curios simulant & Bacchanalia vivunt. They, like Eli's Sons, are in White Linen, but they have Scarlet Sins. Some say that Prester John, the Lord of Africa, causeth to be carried before him a Golden Cup full of Dirt: A fit Emblem of such Ministers as have a Golden Office, but are dirty and polluted in their Lives. They are Murderers, and the Blood of Souls will cry against them at the last Day.
(3.) That Infect Souls, viz. By their Scandalous Lives. Exod. 19.22. Let the Priests which come near to the Lord sanctifie themselves. Ministers who by their Places are nearer to God, should be holier than others. The Elements, the higher they are, the purer. The Air is purer than the Water; the Fire is purer than the Air. The higher Men are by Office, the holier they should be. Iohn Baptist was a shining Lamp. But there are many who infect their People with their Bad Life: They preach one thing, and live another. Qui curios simulant & Bacchanalia vivunt. They, like Eli's Sons, are in White Linen, but they have Scarlet Sins. Some say that Prester Iohn, the Lord of Africa, causeth to be carried before him a Golden Cup full of Dirt: A fit Emblem of such Ministers as have a Golden Office, but are dirty and polluted in their Lives. They are Murderers, and the Blood of Souls will cry against them at the last Day.
4. Such as destroy others by getting them into bad Company, and so making them Proselytes to the Devil. Vitia in proximum quemque transiliunt. Sen. A Man cannot live in the Ethiopian Climate, but he will be discoloured with the Sun; nor he cannot be in bad Company, but he will partake of their Evil. One Drunkard makes another; as the Prophet speaks in another Sense,