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Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lightsShadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights
Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoinder unto Mr John Saltmarsh his reply: entitled Shadows flying away. Wherein nothing less is showed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.Shadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoynder unto Mr Iohn Saltmarsh his reply: entituled Shadowes flying away. Wherein nothing lesse is shewed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1646
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5. You abuse us notoriously, when you bear men in hand that we would have them to believe, that we can by such rods as these so smite upon their rocky hearts, as to make water run out ⟨p. 28⟩of them. No, Sir, you speak untruly; we profess no such matter: yet we believe, that by such preaching God is able to break and mollify the most flinty heart that is; and we find by good proof, that by such preaching and pressing of repentance and reformation as you scoff at, God hath to admiration wrought in this kind; andm given thereby such success to his own ordinance, as may justly give you cause to be ashamed and abased, as well as abashed, for your jeering of it, and girding at it in that manner as you do.
5. You abuse us notoriously, when you bear men in hand that we would have them to believe, that we can by such rods as these so smite upon their rocky hearts, as to make water run out ⟨p. 28⟩of them. No, Sir, you speak untruly; we professe no such matter: yet we believe, that by such preaching God is able to break and mollifie the most flinty heart that is; and we find by good proof, that by such preaching and pressing of repentance and reformation as you scof at, God hath to admiration wrought in this kind; andm given thereby such successe to his own ordinance, as may justly give you cause to be ashamed and abased, as well as abashed, for your jeering of it, and girding at it in that manner as you do.
- mSee Act. 2.23, 38, 41. & 3.19. with 4.4.