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Nation of the riches ? of his glorious mercy and compassions . What then will become of us , if we * notwithstanding these great engagements , these inestimable prerogatives , shall furn this
wisdom of God into foolishness , by exalting and deifying our own car . Hal wisdom ; if we shall weaken find make void this Almighty power , by the violent opposition of our sinful lusts and affections :
finally , if we shall be too sparing and niggardly in the dispensing of these his mercies ; if we shall render his goodness suspected to our hearers , as if those frequent and
plentiful offers of pity and compassion were only empty , histrionical expressions , and not professions of a mind heartily and
sincerely inclined to us . I will tell you what will become of us ; and I shall the better do it , b y telling you first , what an excessive weight of glory we , es . pecially , shall lose by it . c < They
that be wise' * ( saith Daniel ) " shall thine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness , as the stars for ever and even" Not as those
vulgar , ordinary stars , that have light enough only to make them visible ; but like those more noble lights which are able to cast a shadow through the whole crea . lion , even like the sun in his full trength . And the preferment we * re likely to gain * is very answertbie to our loss ; we shall be glorious , shining firebrands , of the first magnitude , in whose fearful horrible destruction , God will & •* What he is able to do .
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No . XV . Heretick and Schismatic ^* An Heretick therefore I conceive him , that holds an error against faith with obstinacy . Obstinate I conceive him , who will
not change his opinion , when his reasons for it are so answered that he cannot reply ; and when the reasons against it are so convincing that he cannot answer them . By the faith I understand all those
doctrines , and no more , which Christ taught his apostles , and the apostles the church ; yet I exclude not from this number the certain and evident deductions of the A m . Schistnatick I account him ¦
- 4 . X N / V'i » UI « WU' «» V ( l' M . l « VV-UUllk Ulllf ( and Facundus Hermianensis hath taught me to do so ^) who , without any supposition of error in the
conditions of a church ' s communion , divides himself either from the obedience of that church , to which he owes obedience , or from the communion of that church to which he owes communion .
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No . XVI . Necessity and Sociniaritim ~~* extremes . I told you , I remember , my text was a law , and I repent not of the expression , though I know
not how , since our divinity has been imprisoned and fettered ia theses and distinctions , we have lust this word Law ; and men will by no means endure to hear that
Christ came to command us any thing , or that he requires any thing at our hands : He is all taken up in promise : all those pre * cepts which are found in the gospel arc nothing , in tfcesa BdteifS
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ChillingiDorth . 557
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 557, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/33/
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