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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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 13, 2025.

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EXAMINER.

Hee that lookes abroad shall soone have his sight ter∣minated, but the more hee goes on the more besees, and that which closed his prospect opens then into new disco∣veries; if you see no perfect reformation as you stand, do not therefore say there is none, they that stand higher and on a holyer mountaine perhapps see farher, you that stand in the Horizon G of Prelacy cannot see much beyond it; Corruption is deceitfull and makes us like Adam see all Generations in our selves, because we will not be pefectly reformed, letus not argue our Iudgments into a beleeife that we cannot it let us think it as possible to be the best, as easie to be the worst. Let-us not thinke that a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Common wealth or a Mores Vtopia which for ought we know is reall and existent, there is under the Gospell I a royall Preisthood, an holy nation, a peculier People, and cer∣tainly had formes K ages lived to see, but the discovery of

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latter times, they would have admired their owne ignorance and our happinesse.

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