A96104:104
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed…Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed…
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders employed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.
London: printed by J.C., 1661
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For if you seek to do the Will of the Father, which is Holiness and Purity, you must observe what his Commands are, and do not think to secure your selves by notional pretences and literal ⟨p. 68⟩expressions, rudely reasoning with your selves in the worst of senses and the extravigants of courses, accounting it a small sin to offend God, or to walk contrary to his Commandments of Love and Charity, Peace and Truth; for if you walk contrary to this, you may profess what you please, but if your actions and intentions do not answer what your pretences seem to blaze forth into notional extremes, as I may so account them; I will not value that opinion, though they pretend to be Saints or Angels, for if they walk so loosely as that their own hearts condemn them in their intention, much more may God condemn them, who seeth in secret and knoweth in secret, happy is he that can try all things with Solomon, and yet not be linked in his affection to any thing; I speak as in respect of his serving or idolizing any thing below God, he can rejoice with a Heroic spirit, not only that Devils are made subject to him, but that his name is written in the Book of Life; he can try and search into the secondary powers of the world, and yet not like to the Philosophers of the Heathen conclude, That the Images of them should be worshipped, because, as they say, they represent their Gods to them, and that the reverencing of God is the uncovering of the head, or the sprinkling with holy water, and exterior expiations, and exterior ornaments for our Divine praises, as musical harmony, ⟨p. 69⟩and burning of wax candles, and light, and ringing of bells, and adorning of temples, altars and images, in which, as they say, is required a special reverence, and comeliness.
For if you seek to do the Will of the Father, which is Holiness and Purity, you must observe what his Commands are, and do not think to secure your selves by notional pretences and literal ⟨p. 68⟩expressions, rudely reasoning with your selves in the worst of sences and the extravigants of courses, accounting it a small sin to offend God, or to walk contrary to his Commandements of Love and Chartly, Peace and Truth; for if you walk contrary to this, you may profess what you please, but if your actions and intentions do not answer what your pretences seem to blaze forth into notional extreams, as I may so account them; I will not value that opinion, though they pretend to be Saints or Angels, for if they walk so loosly as that their own hearts condemn them in their intention, much more may God condemn them, who seeth in secret and knoweth in secret, happy is he that can try all things with Solomon, and yet not be linked in his affection to any thing; I speak as in respect of his serving or idolizing any thing below God, he can rejoice with a Heroick spirit, not onely that Devils are made subject to him, but that his name is written in the Book of Life; he can try and search into the secondary powers of the world, and yet not like to the Phylosophers of the Heathen conclude, That the Images of them should be worshipped, because, as they say, they represent their Gods to them, and that the reverencing of God is the uncovering of the head, or the sprinkling with holy water, and exterior expiations, and exteriour ornaments for our Devine prayses, as musical harmony,