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B01783 A brief seasonable warning with some tymous remedies to ptevent [sic] the putrefing maladies of pur [sic] oresent [sic] distemper amongst all ranks of professors in Scotland. 1600-1699? (1699) Wing B4647A; ESTC R176329 4,232 8

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so we shall fall into an endless labyrinth XII If those eminently Godly Ministers be reflected upon who have continued suffering in the h●zard of there live these many years by past me knows not who are enduring hardship for the name of Jesus we speak not now concerning any Indul●ed men tho we charitably Judge Sympathie in the spirit not to be wantin● ●ea in some we are sure for to our own hearing we can testify a wor●hy man who upon serious consideration of this diasmul day cryed out O for a passe from Jesus XIII The Judgment of Luther to the Bohem. Churches is worthy of Imitatione herein since there be so many contentions its no new thing in the Church of God notice that some shak not from the fundamentals XIV Remember if thou art suffering for Presbytery that it may be countenanced by thee and so all debates shall be soon decided XV. If any hath broken up fellowship because of this the Lord shall double his stripes we mean Christian society and those who give occasion thereto directly or indirectly for many do not now narrowly mark there passions venting by indignatione upon some which cannot but hurt and irritat strangers yea in prayer XVI Wo be to them who takes offence at Christs Person hereby hsi word worship Government or shameful crosse and Professors have as much to reckon for who do not notice there carriage therein for fear of giving offence XVII Dear Friends love the image of Jesus we are sure there are upon either hands many whose heart if opened would be found the impression of each other mutually XVIII Parishes Societies again we alarme who do not join harmoniously to work in entertaining the Gospel amongst them the Lord shall remove it beyond the seas from you and ye shall be stigmatized of God a caster up thy heel against the holy one XIX Young Christians would be sober and walk with a low sail and all ranks as they respect the mystical body of of Christ would shun irritating speeches XX. O be Cautions of railing against any mans person Michael could not bring a railing accusatione against the Divel for one being tainted with the least tinctue thereof we shall be brought at length to be empty of a republ spirit in any Kind of commerce XXI Let us as Melanchton honour the Judgment of the pious worthy learned yet no further then its own sphereand station for were we never so dexterous in our Judgment we have ground to suspect XXII But we come closely home O soul wha t is the mind of God to the in this Affair Ans I find God against it grant it be so that course to regain some is not the mind of God but obtest the to distinguish the harbouring of tentations in the heart which are not nothing but suggestions persuasions allurements of Satan from those wee l grounded impulses of the Spirit of God but surethese manifestations that thou art tristed with of God doth nevifer thouexamine right induce thee to any such violent carriage which indeed breeds a great reluctancy in the heart of many godly to keep correspondency XXIII If men be other wayes minded God shall reveale it his is his promise stay upon the Lord do not haste thy own nay rather roll all the burden on Christs shouldiers XXIV If this had been debated among our Reformers as to the matter of hearing we are perswaded we should have been esteemed in the categ one of lesuits its true indeed it may be Ans the case is altered and otherwise stated here Ans as to this point of hearing it s not nor can any sutuable pertinent or equivalent Scripture to this effect for the contrary be adduced XXV It may be objected this is a strengthning of the common adversary this I deny since on either hand many are wrestling against such oppositions XXVI Does not this clearly introduce a Explicite Church Covenant and render all Scripturally called Ministers yea Ministry and all odious contemtible yea useless to make Presbyteries to be included in depend upon the people and so we shall have a well ordered Church XXVII If that condition of the Covenant shalicease defence of authority for as to discrepancy of persons we do not now discurse all the terms thereof mutually shall fall to the ground its true it being mutual did inferre a like obligations but yet the thing intrinsickly so considered doth still oblige the choisest acts of the soul XXVIII It may be objected where is the life of religion to this ne● answer as fear it measured according to our temper for as much of the vigour of godl●ness hast been seen amongst some of them as many others XXIX Lastly if this shall be the fruit of our Christian commerce at meeting me thinks it it shall declare an unsavoury spirit unedifying take us of the way of our Ancess●rs and withal do freely invite yea as having the mind of God to invite all Kinds to Repentance and those who have decayed in any measure to cry for restoratione this with Sympathie Calvin used tho say to Luther should he call me a Divel yet he is a Godly Man FIN