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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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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.
This Text is a seasonable Text; Seasonable to the times wherein we live, and seasonable to the work of this day, which should be humbling work, and reforming work; The parts of the text are two: 1 A new Danger, v. 15. 2 A renewed Succour, v. 16.
THis Text is a seasonable Text; Seasonable to the times wherein we live, and seasonable to the worke of this day, which should be humbling work, and reforming work; The parts of the text are two: 1 A new Danger, v. 15. 2 A renued Succour, v. 16.
I. The New Danger is set forth in four particulars.1
- 1The Division of the Text.
1. By the Author of it [And the Serpent] There is a former danger mentioned in v. 12, 13. And that ⟨p. 2⟩was managed by the wrathful Dragon: And here is a New danger, which is contrived by the cunning Serpent: Open cruelty is more dreadful, but subtle policy is more pernicious: The cunning Devil is a more mischievous enemy to the Church of Christ, then the raging Devil: Nero and Diocletian were sore enemies to the Church, but of all, the Emperor Julian is reputed the worst.
1. By the Author of it [And the Serpent] There is a former danger mentioned in v. 12, 13. And that ⟨p. 2⟩was managed by the wrathfull Dragon: And here is a New danger, which is contrived by the cunning Serpent: Open cruelty is more dreadful, but subtill policy is more pernicious: The cunning Devill is a more mischievous enemy to the Church of Christ, then the raging Devil: Nero and Dioclesian were sore enemies to the Church, but of all, the Emperour Julian is reputed the worst.