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Sermons and Tracts Upon Religious Subjects
Sermons and Tracts Upon Religious Subjects Author:William Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FALSE ZEAL REPROVED. A Sermon preached at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, November 5, 1740. T O EDWARD TWISS, Esq. MAYOR S H R E.W S B U R T THE FOLLO... more »WING SERMON IS INSCRIBED, As A Token Of the Jlncere Efteetn And Afettion of The Author. Luke ix. 55, 56. He turned, and rebuked them, and faUY Te know not 'what manner of fpirit ye are of; "The Son of Man is not come to deftroy men's lives, but to fave the At. ' treating upon thefe words of our bieffed Saviour, it will be neceflary, firft, to explain the occafion which introduced them ; after which I fhall lay before you the feveral conclufions, which they naturally offer to our confideration, and endeavour to apply them to our ufe and inftruction, occafion of the words is related at large in the gofpel for the day. — // ccme ta pafs, (faith the Evangelift) -when the time 'mas come that he fiould be received up, he jledfaftly fet his face to go to Jerujalem, and fent me/engers before his face, and they p went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, becaufe his face was as though he would go to Jerufalem. There was a quarrel of a long date betwixt the Jews and Samaritans, on account of certain differences in their religious worfhip; for the firft occafion of which we muft go up to the time of Jeroboam, under whom the ten tribes revolted from judah, and became a diftinct kingdom from "it. Till this revolt the tribes of Ifrael went up conftantly to pay their worfhip at Je- rufalem, as was indeed ftrictly required by their law: but now many inconvenien- cies were feared from this practice, Jeroboam J"aid in his heart,' (i Kings xii. 25.) Now jhall the kingdom return to the houfe of David; if this people go up to do facri- Jice at ...« less