The works of the Most Reverend DrJohn Sharp, late Lord Archbishop of York : in seven volumesContaining one hundred and twelve sermons and discourses on several occasions with some papers wrote in the popish controversy . , that we defire otherwife they will never be able to anfwer, eitherto God or man, for the horrible inconveniencies and*mifchiefs that arife to the church of Chrift, by the di-vifion and feparation which they are engaged in. To conclude : if in any inftance, that famous pre-cept of the apoftle, of proving all things, and holdingfajl that which is good, do oblige chrifti
The works of the Most Reverend DrJohn Sharp, late Lord Archbishop of York : in seven volumesContaining one hundred and twelve sermons and discourses on several occasions with some papers wrote in the popish controversy . , that we defire otherwife they will never be able to anfwer, eitherto God or man, for the horrible inconveniencies and*mifchiefs that arife to the church of Chrift, by the di-vifion and feparation which they are engaged in. To conclude : if in any inftance, that famous pre-cept of the apoftle, of proving all things, and holdingfajl that which is good, do oblige chriftians, it dothefpecially in this. If ever it be a mans duty to fatisfyhimfelf about the goodnefs and lawfulnefs of a thing thathe is apt to doubt of, it is certainly in the cafe wherehis fuperiors have laid their commands upon him; forthere he cannot difobey without fin, unlefs he can af-fure himfelf that he hath done all that he can to recon-cile their commands with his duty to God; but uponthe befl means he hath ufed, he finds them irreconcile-able. For a man to difobey, till he has done this, isan unwarrantable thing j and, in the cafe that I nowJpeak of, it is no lefs than the fin of formal criminalfchifni. THE. THE A S O F A Doubting Conscienc
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