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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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Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member • Naphtali Press: Presbyterian & Reformed Books • The Confessional Presbyterian, A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice • The Blue Banner Archive When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).
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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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Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress  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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Durham is great, but....when will this book and the rest of Durham's works be coming out by Naphtali?
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Carlos,
I can see that a Collected Sermons of James Durham is possible in 2009 DV. It would include all the published sermons except the Isaiah 53 (only some of which have been reprinted in other volumes; e.g. Unsearchable Riches, on Death). The intended volume would match the Isaiah 53 volume and the two together will make a complete collection of Durham's sermons, leaving only the significantly more available Durham on Song of Solomon as the only volume not reissued in a new edition in our day (it was the only Durham reprinted in the 19th century, and early at that; it could stand a new resetting and check against the first edition; then there are the still surviving MSS Durham!).
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Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member • Naphtali Press: Presbyterian & Reformed Books • The Confessional Presbyterian, A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice • The Blue Banner Archive When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).
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Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress Carlos,
I can see that a Collected Sermons of James Durham is possible in 2009 DV. It would include all the published sermons except the Isaiah 53 (only some of which have been reprinted in other volumes; e.g. Unsearchable Riches, on Death). The intended volume would match the Isaiah 53 volume and the two together will make a complete collection of Durham's sermons, leaving only the significantly more available Durham on Song of Solomon as the only volume not reissued in a new edition in our day (it was the only Durham reprinted in the 19th century, and early at that; it could stand a new resetting and check against the first edition; then there are the still surviving MSS Durham!). | Great! I can't wait!! 
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