The Bulwark stormed : in answer to De Laune's Plea for the nonconformists ; wherein is shewed the fallaciousness and unconclusiveness of every argument in that pretended unanswerable book . THE T has been an old as well as comnion Obfervatioii, that as Men de-cay in Zeal towards what St. James^ calls pure Religion and undejiledbefore Gody ib they grow hot andeager Contenders for that, whichas St. Paul fays, ^ profiteth little^ and in theirDifputcs contend more for ViUory than which rcafon, I think there is nothingto which fuch Men may more fitly be com-pared, than thof
The Bulwark stormed : in answer to De Laune's Plea for the nonconformists ; wherein is shewed the fallaciousness and unconclusiveness of every argument in that pretended unanswerable book . THE T has been an old as well as comnion Obfervatioii, that as Men de-cay in Zeal towards what St. James^ calls pure Religion and undejiledbefore Gody ib they grow hot andeager Contenders for that, whichas St. Paul fays, ^ profiteth little^ and in theirDifputcs contend more for ViUory than which rcafon, I think there is nothingto which fuch Men may more fitly be com-pared, than thofe Pharifees our Saviour fpeaksof, ^ *who were very ftri^ in tithing Mint^ Anifo^and Commin^ when at the fame time they negletledthe weightier matters of Religion. It is indeed a very fad, but yet great Truth(too -plain to be denied \ becaufe it fo plainly ap-pears in our Books of difpute) that, when Menare eagerly contending about the outward Form jthey aimoft, nay, fome do altogether forget that Chap. i. 27. b I Tim. iv. 8. c Mat. xxiii. 2, The Introduction. ij which is fo much better in it felf, and there-fore ought to be of far greater account withus, viz, that in which the Sum and Subftance
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