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The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House…
The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, January 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.The nature and danger of heresies, opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, Ianuary 27. 1646. at Margarets Westminster, being the day of their solemn monthly fast. / By Obadiah Sedgvvick, B.D. Minister of Gods Word at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by M.F. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1647
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III. The length or peril by all these: If the peril were confined only to the souls of them who are the craftsmen and founders of these opinions, yet even this should move us to lament; but the flood is running, the water is spreading: The plague is not only begun, but wasting: the contagion grows to be general: It is got into the City, into the Country, got into that (other) chief University: the poison is dropped into the spring: It is got into many leaders of the people, who do themselves err, and cause others to err, It breaths, and walks, & rolls up and down. It is spreading over the whole Kingdom: It surpriseth place after place, infects family after family: The sword of late was not so swift to conquer bodies, as errors now are to poison souls.
III. The length or perill by all these: If the perill were confined onely to the souls of them who are the craftsmen and founders of these opinions, yet even this should move us to lament; but the floud is running, the water is spreading: The plague is not onely begun, but wasting: the contagion grows to be generall: It is got into the City, into the Countrey, got into that (other) chief University: the poison is dropt into the springo: It is got into many leaders of the people, who doe themselves erre, and cause others to erre, It breaths, and walks, & rowls up and down. It is spreading over the whole Kingdome: It surpriseth place after place, infects family after family: The sword of late was not so swift to conquer bodies, as errours now are to poison souls.
Truly Sirs! If blasphemies against God, if reproaches against Christ, if decisions against the holy Ghost; If contempt of the Scriptures, if vilifying of the Ordinances of Christ, if obloquies to our holy profession, If the eternal hazard of souls, if all these cannot affect us, afflict us, I know not what to say unto you.
Truly Sirs! If blasphemies against God, if reproaches against Christ, if decisions against the holy Ghost; If contempt of the Scriptures, if vilifying of the Ordinances of Christ, if obloquies to our holy profession, If the eternall hazard of souls, if all these cannot affect us, afflict us, I know not what to say unto you.