EXAMINER.
I had not knowne your meaning by the lawfull cal∣ling you name, but that you expound it in the lines
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.
- Author
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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- Printed at London :: [s.n.],
- 1643.
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- 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 June 14, 2024.
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that follow, to be the calling of the supreame Magi∣strate; as if no calling were warrantable at first to X pro∣move a Reformation but that. But you must take no∣tice there is an inward and an outward Call. The in∣ward Call is a Y speciall excitation from the Spirit of God, and such a Call is warrantable by God to be active; I am sure it hath beene sufficient alwayes to set holy men on worke: Another Call is outward, and that is either of Place and Magistracy, or publike Rela∣tion. Now though Magistracy be of publike Relation, yet when I speake specifically of publike Relation, I meane that in which every man stands bound in to God and his Country; now all these Callings are com∣missions enough either to meddle as Christianly inspi∣red, or Christianly ingaged. In ordinary transactions, I know the ordinary dispensation is to be resorted to; but the businesse of Reformation as it is extraordinary, so God giveth extraordinary Conjunctures of times and circumstances, and extraordinary concurrences, and ex∣traordniary incitations. In the building of the Temple you shall see in Ezra and Nehemiah such workings of * 1.1 God, when the people were gathered together as one man, they spake to Ezra the Scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses. Here the people put on even Ezra to his duty.
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* 1.1
Nehem. 8 1.