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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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1. Every Truth agrees with the whole, and with every other Truth. The whole body of Divine Truths is Uniform: Truth is but one, whereas error is manifold: Truth its self consenting, but error its self contradicting: there is a sweet harmony in the whole Word of God; there are no contradictions to be found there; if any shall judge that there are such, the mistake is not in the Scriptures, but in their deceived Understandings. They do all come from the same God, with whom there is no Variableness or Shadow of Turning▪ James 1. 17. they are nothing else but the expressions of his mind, who is always of one mind, Job 23. 13. and have been delivered in Holy Writ by him who perfectly knows his own meaning, and is not at a loss how to express it. So that whensoever you meet with two Doctrines, between which you observe a manifest inconsistency, you may and ⟨p. 114⟩must conclude, that both of these cannot possibly be true, and also that that must be so, which is consonant with the whole Analogy of Faith, or the body of Saving Truths: such is the direction given by the Apostle, 1 Tim. 6. 3, 4. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Doctrine which is according to Godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing.
1. Every Truth agrees with the whole, and with every other Truth. The whole body of Divine Truths is Uniform: Truth is but one, whereas error is manifold: Truth its self consenting, but error its self contradicting: there is a sweet harmony in the whole Word of God; there are no contradictions to be found there; if any shall judge that there are such, the mistake is not in the Scriptures, but in their deceived Understandings. They do all come from the same God, with whom there is no Variableness or Shadow of Turning▪ James 1. 17. they are nothing else but the expressions of his mind, who is always of one mind,