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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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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.
4. That you bee 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 errour with a little golden key can pick. If thou be the servant of truth for gain, thou wilt be a slave to errour for more gain.
5. That you be not rotten or hypocritical Christians: they were given up to believe lies who did not receive the truth in the love of it: How just is it with God, that he should fall into real error, whose heart did never love real truth? that the deceitful heart should at length be a deceived heart? Is it difficult to set him against the faith, who never had a sound faith?
5. That you be not rotten or hypocriticall Christians: they were given up to beleeve lies who did not receive the truth in the love of it: How just is it with God, that he should fall into reall errour, whose heart did never love reall truth? that the deceitfull heart should at length be a deceived heart? Is it difficult to set him against the faith, who never had a sound faith?
6. Take heed that you be not tottering and unstable Christians: when the judgement is not balanced and solidly fixed upon the truths of Christ, but reeling and wavering, and like them in Elijah's time, halting between two opinions; it is usually in danger to be poised with error: He whose mind is but indifferent about a truth, is more then half on his way to error.