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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. Opinion, 'Tis (say some) the opinion of such as are pious and learned. This is a false rule, 'tis not the opinion of others can make a thing unlawful, warrantable*: If a Synod of Divines, if an Assembly of Angels, should say we might worship God by an image, their opinion could not make this authentic and lawful; an upright Christian will not make another's opinion his Bible.
1. Opinion, 'Tis (say some) the opinion of such as are pious and learned. This is a false rule, 'tis not the opinion of others can make a thing unlawful, warrantable*: If a Synod of Divines, if an Assembly of Angels, should say we might worship God by an image, their opinion could not make this authentick and lawful; an upright Christian will not make anothers opinion his Bible.
- *Nunquam magis periclitatur religio quam inter reverendissimos Luther.
The best guides may sometimes go wrong. Peter preacheth circumcision, ⟨p. 7⟩the very doctrine of the pseudo-Apostles, Gal. 2. 11. Peter himself was not infallible; the upright man is no adorer of opinion; when the stream of Arianism swelled so high that it did overflow a great part of the world; Athanasius did swim against the stream; he was invincible in the truth*.
The best guides may sometimes go wrong. Peter preacheth circumcision, ⟨p. 7⟩