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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
1 Use. See hence how unworthy they are of the Name of Christians who use sinful compliance, and cut the Garment of their Religion according to the Mode and fashion of the times. They consult not what is best, but what is safest*. Complying spirits can truckle to the humours of others; they can ⟨p. 6⟩bow either to the East or to the Host; they prefer a whole Skin before a pure Conscience. They can with the Planet Mercury vary their motion; they can as the Mariner shift their Sail with every wind: and as the Mongrel Israelites speak the Language of Canaan and Ashdod. These are like the Samaritans of whom Josephus saith, when the Jews flourished they pretended to be a-kin to them, and come of the tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh, but when the Jews were persecuted, they disclaimed Kindred with them. The old Serpent hath taught men crooked windings, and to be for that Religion not which hath truth on its side, but power.
1 Vse. See hence how unworthy they are of the Name of Christians who use sinful complyance, and cut the Garment of their Religion according to the Mode and fashion of the times. They consult not what is best, but what is safest*. Complying spirits can truckle to the humours of others; they can ⟨p. 6⟩bow either to the East or to the Host; they prefer a whole Skin before a pure Conscience. They can with the Planet Mercury vary their motion; they can as the Mariner shift their Sail with every wind: and as the Mungril Israelites speak the Language of Canaan and Ashdod. These are like the Samaritans of whom Iosephus saith, when the Jews flourished they pretended to be a-kin to them, and come of the tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh, but when the Jews were persecuted, they disclaimed Kindred with them. The old Serpent hath taught men crooked windings, and to be for that Religion not which hath truth on its side, but power.
- *Non quâ eundum sed qua itur. Sen.