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The morning exercise methodized
The morning exercise methodized; or Certain chief heads and points of the Christian religion opened and improved in divers sermons, by several ministers of the City of London, in the monthly course of the morning exercise at Giles in the Fields. May 1659.
London: printed by E. M. for Ralph Smith, 1660
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.
1In opposition whereunto, the Apostles in their several Epistles were careful to furnish the Churches with such Modules and Platforms of truth, as might discover and confute those damnable heresies.
1Hence the Apostle Saint Peter calls them PRESENT TRUTHS; that is, Principles of the Christian Faith, most seasonable for those times wherein they were writ; as every Church and age had its present errors and false doctrines, whereby the false Apostles did labour to undermine the truth, and to seduce the Professors of it; so the Apostles in that zeal to the truth, and compassion to the souls of men, did bestir themselves to Countermine those Seducers, and to stablish the Churches in the faith of Jesus Christ, by collecting some special heads and points of Gospel Doctrine opposite to those errors, and sending them to the several Churches, where they had planted the Gospel.
- 12 Pet. 1.12. [Greek or Hebrew].2 Pet. 1.12. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
These the Apostle calls the Present truth; Thus Saint Paul (among other places) in his first Epistle to Timothy chap. 4. from the first verse to the ninth verse.