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Heavenly merchandiseHeavenly merchandize
Heavenly merchandise; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it dissuaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]Heavenly merchandize; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it disswaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]
printed by Samuel Green, 1686
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3. Make not Holy Men, your Rule; I mean such as make the greatest show and appearance of it. For as there is a feigned Holiness, which is the worst iniquity, so the best of men are but men; and because they are so, must be liable to mistakes: good men have had their errors, and those sometimes great ones too; however, they are not of themselves infallible: those that were the Penmen of the Holy Scriptures, wherein they were guided by an infallible Spirit, and wrote as they were inspired; yet in other things they had their mistakes; Peter himself was once at least to be blamed, Gal. 2. 11. how much more then have we reason to suppose that others know but in part? and if we take ⟨p. 102⟩all their maxims for Oracles, we may easily be misled. When Paul himself was the Preacher, yet the Bereans are commended, that they took not up his Doctrine on trust, but searched the Scriptures to find out the truth of it, Act. 17. 11.
3. Make not Holy Men, your Rule; I mean such as make the greatest shew and appearance of it. For as there is a feigned Holiness, which is the worst iniquity, so the best of men are but men; and because they are so, must be liable to mistakes: good men have had their errors, and those sometimes great ones too; however, they are not of themselves infallible: those that were the Penmen of the Holy Scriptures, wherein they were guided by an infallible Spirit, and wrote as they were inspired; yet in other things they had their mistakes; Peter himself was once at least to be blamed, Gal. 2. 11. how much more then have we reason to suppose that others know but in part? and if we take ⟨p. 102⟩all their maxims for Oracles, we may easily be misled. When Paul himself was the Preacher, yet the Bereans are commended, that they took not up his Doctrine on trust, but searched the Scriptures to find out the truth of it, Act. 17. 11.