Apology of Theophilus Lindsey Ma On Resigning the Vicarage of Catterick York
Apology of Theophilus Lindsey Ma On Resigning the Vicarage of Catterick York
Theophilus Lindsey
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So hard a thing is it to word fo great a myftery aright ; or to fit fo high a truth with expreflions fuitable and proper to. it, without going one way or another from it. " Bp. Beveridge. Private thoughts^ part ii. Pag, 48, ,49. When we read fuch puzzling unintelligible myftery, and fee fuch mighty ftrefs laid on it, how thankful ought we to be for the good kn{e and fimplicity of the gofpel of Jefus, which leads us by no fuch dark and intricate roads to heaven ; but as one of his chief apof- tl...es fpeaketh, Ads xx. 21. Requireth no more of all men but repentance toward God, and faith toiuard our Lor'd Je/us Chri/I / imme- [ 17 i immediately influences the lieart and practice. " But (to ufe the words of an author of good account) this pretence of a neceffity of humbling the underftand- ing is none of the nieaneil arts, wherehy ^fome perfons have invaded and ufurped a power over other men's faith and confci- ences. But he that fubmitteth his under- ftanding to all that he knows God hath faid, and is ready to fubmit to all that he hath faid if he but knov/ it, denying his own affedions, and ends, and interefts, and human perfuafions, laying them all down at the feet of his great mafter Jefus Chrift, that man hath brought his under- /landing into fubjedtion, and every proud thought into the obedience of Chrift, and this is the Cirxyio-n Trif-ooc, the obedience qf faith, which is the duty of a Chriftian.
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