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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.
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.
2. Custome. It hath been the1 custome of the place, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Religion of our ancestors. This is a false rule; The customes of the people are vaine, Jer. 10. 3. and as for our progenitors, and ancestors, a sonne may better take his land from his father, then his Religion. How many of our fore-fathers liv'd in times of Popery, and stumbled to hell in the dark, are we therefore bound to follow their blinde zeal? a wise man will not set his watch by the clock, but by the Sun.
- 12. False Rule.
3. Conscience; 'tis (saith one) my1 conscience. This is no rule for an ⟨p. 8⟩upright man; the conscience of a sinner is defiled, Tit. 1. 16. conscience being defiled may err; an erring conscience cannot be a rule,