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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.
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⟩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 Arrianisme swelled so high that it did overflow a great part of the world; Athanasius did swim against the streame; he was invincible in the truth*.
- *Adamas Ecclesiae, Tertul.
2. Custom. It hath been the1 custom of the place, or [Greek or Hebrew], the Religion of our ancestors. This is a false rule; The customs of the people are vain, Jer. 10. 3. and as for our progenitors, and ancestors, a son may better take his land from his father, then his Religion. How many of our fore-fathers lived in times of Popery, and stumbled to hell in the dark, are we therefore bound to follow their blind zeal? a wise man will not set his watch by the clock, but by the Sun.