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Old 06-25-2008, 06:23 PM
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The puritans often had a way of expressing things that we couldn't get away with today without getting points docked

Thanks for sharing! This is very insightful into our basic blindness.

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Adam


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Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress View Post
The following comes from the Epistle to the Reader in James Durham's, The Great Gain of Contenting Godliness (1685) 88-89.
Are there not many good, commendable, and imitable things in the Godly, which are not to be found in others? Why should all these be quite overlooked and passed by, and a few failings in all, or more gross faults in some of the Godly, be only taken notice of, and narrowly observed, and more exaggerated in them,then these same, or grosser ones in others are,who yet are quite destitute of those many other good things which the Godly have? Sure this is not fair nor equal dealing; It’s very like the disposition of a sort of Insects, that can flee over the whole of a meadow full of fragrant sweet-smelling and pleasant flowers, and sit down upon, and suck a little dung in it.
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He who was punishable by death under the judicial law, is punishable by death still; and he who was not punished by death then, is not to be punished by death now.
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