Format 
Page no. 
Search this text 
Title:  A brief refutation of the errors tolleration, erastianism, independency and separation delivered in some sermons from I Job. 4. I, preach'd in the year 1652 : to which are added four sermons preach'd on several occasions / by Mr. James Fergusson ...
Author: Fergusson, James, 1621-1667.
Table of contents | Add to bookbag
should not be given way to, yet those who encline this way from a desire of strictness are much to be Pitied. But on the other hand, we are not to think so of the Ring-leaders of this Error; It hath been found by experience that such have been more carried on by a conceit of their Own Holiness, than any true Love to Holiness it self; It hath been usually found in Heady men who had a mind to make a Rupture in te Church, that this has been the Method they used to walke in, To cry up Holiness in themselves, and to cry down all who differed from them, as un∣tender: That so they might carry all with them at last; At least to Rent and divide the Church: To such we will say nothing, but Christs Curse, and the Churches for Renting her bowels, will fall on Them.But unto the other we will speak something, that is, To those who are piously Strict and really loath at the good Service of God, because such Persons are at it who should not be there. To those I shall say; First, Know what it your Duty. And Secondly, What is not your Duty in reference to Prophane Men; Oft∣times we mistake our Duty and leap over it, to what is not our Duty: Now your Duty in reference to pro∣phane Men, Is not to take your hands from the Or∣dinance, because Their hands are at it; To turn your backs on your Duty because Prophane Men join with you in it; It will be but a small excuse to pre∣tend when God reckons with you, when the Lord will say, What made you neglect such a Duty? to say. Lord I grant it was my Duty, but I could not, because such Men were at it: Therefore ye should know 0