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A37045 Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham. Durham, James, 1622-1658.; J. C. 1685 (1685) Wing D2815; ESTC R24930 306,755 418

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in them Yet considering 1. The nature of the thing and the institution of marriage and that of Mal. 2. 15. That he made but one man and one woman for the man that he might have a godly seed neither can the multiplication of mankind have sufficient weight to make it simply to be no sin 2dly Considering the frequency of it or its being in so many that it became almost ordinary And 3dly Considering the effects that followed on it viz. The many discontents and heart-burnings amongst the Wives and Children in the Families of Abraham and Iacob It cannot absolutely be excused in all Cases and Circumstances else it should make an extraordinary dispensiation if indeed it was to be very ordinary which we have no warrand for A 2d Instance is in Iobs friends who were no question gracious men as the Lords accepting of them and Iob for them Iob 42. 8. sheweth yet that they Erred and were wrong in a Truth in their Judgements is clear from v. 7. of that Chapter where the Lord telleth them that they had not spoken right as his servant Iob had done And that they did very un-tenderly handle Iob is also clear The 3d. Instance is in the Apostles and Disciples of our Lord They were Believers no doubt according to Christ's own Testimony given them Iohn 17. 8. And yet we will find them in several things thinking themselves to be right and that with some sort of perswasion when yet they were wrong As in that one tenet concerning the nature of Christ's Kingdom which they fancied was to be with some earthly Grandour and Pomp and wherein they expected some Worldy Credit and Greatness and in that of Peter Mat. 16. 22. Be it far from th●e Lord this shall not be unto thee And if all the Apostles had been put to a Consultation it is like they would have diswaded him as well as Peter did As when he said he was to go up to Ierusalem they said Master the Iews sought of late to stone thee and wilt thou go up thithe And yet how hatefull this was to Christ is clear from the whole strain of the Gospel and from his checking of Peter at that rate of holy severity saving ●o him Get thee behind me Satan And the two Sons of Zebedee Mat. 20. 22. Telling them That they knew not what they asked And Acts 1. 7. He declareth to them that it was not for them to know the times and seasons which the Father had put in his own power A 4th Instance is that which was the very common Tenet and Opinion of Believers in the Primitive times among the Iews viz That the Ceremonial Law of Moses was not fully abrog●ted by the coming of Christ and is clear from Acts 21. and Rom. 14. and 1 Cor. 8. 9. and 10. Chapters and that there was much un-clearness in the matter of Christian Liberty they being some way rooted in their Opinion anent the distinction of Meats and Dayes thinking that it was not taken away And though the Apostles determined it yet they could not easily be brought off from it For the 2d Take some aggredging circumstances which will make this the more wonderfull As 1. That Believers may Err be mistaken and go wrong when in a very tender Christian frame As is clear in the forecited instances of the Patriarchs of Iob's Friends and of the Apostles and Believers in the Primitive Times for will any I pray deny but they were in a good frame when they had so much Liberty in Prayer and Preaching and such successe waiting on it so that the Devils were subject to them They were also singularly dauted and dandled in a manner by Christ Jesus himself and had so much access to God and so much of his countenance yet continuing still for a great while in some of these their Errors and Mistakes 2. That this may be not only among the more common sort of Believers but even also amongst the most eminent for are there any more eminent then there we have named viz. The Patriarchs Apostles and Dis●iples of our Lord And we may add that of Paul and Barnabas Acts 15 36 39. What the particular was about which the contest was we shall not offer now to decide it is sure in the matter one of them was wrong and it is like both in the manner and yet both though themselves to be right 3. There may be mistakes in very concerning and important Truths Is not that a concerning Truth about which Iobs Friends disputed with him viz. That God would not temporally plague a godly man And was not that a concerning Truth anent the nature of Christs Kingdom wherein the Disciples were mistaken and wrong And if we speak of matters of Fact was not that of the Fathers and other Saints in the matter of Bigamy and Poligamy a concerning thing yet all of them thought themselves to be right neither did they for any thing we know go against an explicit challenge of their Conscience in that matter 4ly It is not one or two but many that may be under such mistakes many of the Fathers were mistaken Iob's Friends were so all the Apostles were so many thousands yea ten thousands of the Iews that believed as it were almost all the Believers of that Countrey were so being all zealous of the cerimoniall Law when yet it was abrogat 5ly They may be exceeding fervent and forward in that wherein they Err very bent on it how vehemently and eagerly did Iobs Friends pursue the Dispute to beat him from a sound principle which they held against him how serious were the Apostles in these things wherin they erred How zealous were these sound believing Iews for these Cerimonies even after the matter was otherwise determined by the Apostles And how hot was the contention betwixt Barnabas and Paul Even so hot that they parted company 6thly They may continue in such mistakes notwithstanding many evidences that might serve to bring them off and against many relevant reasons given them to the contrary how many un-answerable arguments were adduced by Iob to perswade his Friends of their mistake And yet had not the Lord himself immediately interposed it 's like they might have dyed without taking with it How often did Christ refute that Opinion touching the nature of his Kingdom by preaching of suffering and of the necessity of his Death by telling his Disciples expresly that his Kingdom was not of this World and that they behove●●o become as little Children And yet notwithstanding of all this they continued in their Error not only while Christ was with them before his Death but even after his Resurrection as is clear Acts 1. And we know what were the decrees of the Synod held at Ierusalem Acts 15. Concerning Christian Liberty and how it was told the Believers in that time That an idol was nothing and yet they adhered to their mistake about their Liberty and thought still something of the Idol As Paul