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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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2. That you be not loose Christians: If ungodliness be in the heart, it will not be hard for error to get into the head: A loose heart can best comply with loose principles: Truth is searching and reforming, but error is more quiet and gratifying: 'tis grace which settles the mind, and stablisheth the heart.
2. That you be not loose Christians: If ungodlines be in the heart, it will not be hard for errour to get into the head: A loose heart can best comply with loose principles: Truth is searching and reforming, but errour is more quiet and gratifying: 'tis grace which settles the minde, and stablisheth the heart.
3. That you be not weak Christians: weak stomachs are most longing: A Christian whose faith is implicit, and leaning on man, doth often trust out his judgement and soul: The weaker light you have ⟨p. 43⟩of truth, the more easily may you be cheated with errors in stead of truth.
3. That you be not weak Christians: weake stomachs are most longing: A Christian whose faith is implicit, and leaning on man, doth often trust out his judgement and soul: The weaker light you have ⟨p. 43⟩of truth, the more easily may you be cheated with errours in stead of truth.
4. That you be not low Christians: a worldly heart is a very low heart: It is of all other the cheapest, it will be bought and sold upon every turn to serve its own turn: The truth can never be sure in that chest, which any error with a little golden key can pick. If thou be the servant of truth for gain, thou wilt be a slave to error for more gain.