A96104:117
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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Even so he that hath ever experienced the love of God, will leave his Father and Mother, and all other seeming friends whatever, rather than loose this Pearl, or act contrary to the Truth; yet Christ doth not any ways advise Children to be disobedient to their earthly Parents in respect to their obedience, if it be possible to content them or obey them, but rather adviseth them to be just obeyers of God, by keeping the Commandments of God, commanded to be kept in the presence of God and men, and not that any one can imagine himself to be an approved fulfiller of the Laws of God, so long as he acts unjustly between man and man, as I remember it was historically expressed of the judgment of some Heathens, concerning ⟨p. 81⟩the opinion of the Christians, that they judged the God of the Christians was not a good God, by reason of their unfaithfulness one toward another, and their unhumane carriage toward them: It is a sad omen of conversion, when they that should become a pattern to others to walk by, become a reproach and defame to their God, or rather the God of truth in their actions towards men; I never did read that Christ or his Apostles did leave them any such example, but rather to approve our selves to be examples of the Flock, and not Lords over Gods Heritage, and ro offer no offence neither to the Jew nor Gentile, 1 Cor. 10.32. but rather show our selves to be such as seek to glorify the Name of God by our uprightness and exactness to men.
Even so he that hath ever experienced the love of God, will leave his Father and Mother, and all other seeming friends whatever, rather than loose this Pearl, or act contrary to the Truth; yet Christ doth not any wayes advise Children to be disobedient to their earthty Parents in respect to their obedience, if it be possible to content them or obey them, but rather adviseth them to be just obeyers of God, by keeping the Commandments of God, commanded to be kept in the presence of God and men, and not that any one can imagine himself to be an approved fulfiller of the Laws of God, so long as he acts unjustly between man and man, as I remember it was historically expressed of the judgment of some Heathens, concerning ⟨p. 81⟩the opinion of the Christians, that they judged the God of the Christians was not a good God, by reason of their unfaithfulness one toward another, and their unhumane carriage toward them: It is a sad omen of conversion, when they that should become a pattern to others to walk by, become a reproach and defame to their God, or rather the God of truth in their actions towards men; I never did read that Christ or his Apostles did leave them any such example, but rather to approve our selves to be examples of the Flock, and not Lords over Gods Heritage, and ro offer no offence neither to the Jew nor Gentile,