A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. 91
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- +COR. C hap. 15. Vers. 87
- and the oblerration oF che Royal Lam OF Chariey, betore the Pati(
- faction oE any Privare Humour or Interest; (0 he will beaware ol
- chat ausle la D arbonnns wrtichmany run into, ot banictiins amay all
- chesolemnitr oE external Worchip, che Observation oF ihe LordS
- Dar and oF the Chrictian Sacraments, under theNotion ol Ccremo-
- nies, quite onut ot the Worid. To conclude, Ulnless there bea due and
- cimelr rerard had to ehe Commands ot lawtul Auchority in Indisse.
- rent things, and 1o Order, Peace and Unicy in ehe Church, it may
- casr Be Soreleen that the Reformed part ot Christendom will at
- lenech bebroughe to consusion, by crumblins into infinite Sects and
- Division, and thenEO BATeF Ruine.
- Asain, Many mistakee che Vices oE cheir nacural Complexion For
- Supernatural and Dirine Graces. Some thinke duil and stuxid Melan-
- choly co be Christian Nortification. Ochers, that curbulene and hery
- Zeal is the vigour oF che Spirit. Whereas Zeal is one oF chole thines
- that Aristote calIS rà ptou, of a midale nature, neither G00d nOr
- Bad in ic selF, buc irhich, as it is circumtantiated, may indifferenty
- become cither Verrne or Vice. Por there is a neos ZIN +, 25 the A-
- Doltle calls it, a birter Zeal, wrhich is contrary to all Christian Love
- and Charier, and is nochins else but the Vices or Acerbiey, Pnoy
- Malice, Crueler, tinctur d and gilded orer mich a RelisiousMton. And
- there mar be alsoa curbulent and Factious Zcal, Wrhen men, under a
- Pretence oF actins For che Cilory oF Ood, violate jus and lamsul
- Ruthorier, in order eo cheadrancement of cheir omn prirate SclF. in-
- cerest. rdeed there irasamonesthe Zems a certain Righe called Jus
- Telotarum. Oxthe Rieht of Zelors, Whereby private perlons, acted by
- Led For God, mighe do immediate execution upon lome MaletactOrs,
- Without expectine che sentence oF any Court oF fudicature. And
- some conceire thâc our Saviour by chis Kieht ofZelots, did irhip cho
- Buvers and Sellers ont oE che Teniple, and orerturn che lables oe
- theMoney. changers; because he Was never quectioned by che fems
- For it. Bucthis was then a Legal and Regular chins, permitted by
- the publick LawsoF that Nation in Come certain C ales, y et (0 a5 Thac
- thore Zelors vere afcervord accountable to the Sanhedrin For Whac
- cher did: Foverer, à liirle besore the destruction oF che Temple
- a5 Josephus tells us, chere vere a Crew oF desperate Miscreanes that,
- abutins ehis Righe, and callins chemsclres by che name ot Kannain,
- I. C. Zelots, made a pretence Prom hience co commit most villainous
- actions. And P wisti Come had not too much entertain d this Opini-
- on, thatPrirate persons miphe retorm Dublick Abules, Whether Be-
- longine co che PCclehaltica lor ihe Civil Polity, wichout and against
- the consent of the supreme Maxistrare, in a curbulene manner, Fure
- Zelotarum, by the Rieht of Zealors; nay, and chac Actions; thac arc O.
- Chermise altorether unmarrancable in themselres, may nocmichstand.
- ins be justihed by Zeal for God and g00d Ends. But Cod necdo no
- anSLeal to promote an Imacinary Interest oE his in che Worid by
- doins unjulerhines Corhim. W ill yon speak wichedly for Bod, or talte
- deceitsullyfor him? vill jon accept his Person Tvas the generous
- Expolculation or fob wich his Friends; and he tells chem in che FoL
- Lorrine words, chac this iras nothine else Bui 1o moek Ood as one man
- mdcketh anottolt.
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A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper, fol. 91. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066511403:0103?run=74