Truth maintained, or, Positions delivered in a sermon at the Savoy since traduced for dangerous, now asserted for sovnd and safe / by Thomas Fvller.
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Truth maintained, or, Positions delivered in a sermon at the Savoy since traduced for dangerous, now asserted for sovnd and safe / by Thomas Fvller.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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Printed at London :: [s.n.],
1643.
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Church of England -- Doctrines -- Apologetic works.
Reformation -- Sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Truth maintained, or, Positions delivered in a sermon at the Savoy since traduced for dangerous, now asserted for sovnd and safe / by Thomas Fvller." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70084.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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TREATISE.
Z. My endeavour here was only to take out of the way such rubbish as others would bring in.) Whether rather, you have not brought in such Rubbish, which others have taken away, be it reported to the juditious Reader.
A. Let us like Ioshuas spies, bring no evill report upon the Land we are going to.) By Ioshuas spies, you meane those who accompanied Caleb, & Ioshun, to spie the Land of Cauaan, and these were guilty of a three fold Fault.
First they spake truth with an ill intent, to disharten the Israelites, in their reporting of the strength of the Country. Secondly, they speake more then truth, rai∣sing the walls of the Cannanitish Cities by their Hyper∣bolyes
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as high as Heaven, Lastly they suppressed the most materiall point, not incouraging the people, (as Ca∣leb and Ioshua did, by the assured assistance of God against their enemies. But I conceive my selfe, (against whome your words are darted) to be innocent in the foresaid per∣ticulers.