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The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch
The spiritual watch, or Christs general watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.The spirituall vvatch, or Christs generall watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1619
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 21. But this is it that flesh and blood will not abide almost to hear ought of. It is in stripping us of sin, as in flaying of a beast, the skin cometh away with ease, till you come to the head. Men are well enough content, at least outwardly; to conform themselves to good courses, till it come to the master corruption, to the head sin; to the cfat sin that their profit cometh in by, ⟨p. 34⟩or their dsweet sin that they do naturally take pleasure and delight in: but there it sticketh fast, and goeth not on, (if at all) without much ado, but with great difficulty.
§. 21. But this is it that flesh and bloud will not abide almost to heare ought of. It is in stripping vs of sinne, as in flaying of a beast, the skin commeth away with ease, till you come to the head. Men are well enough content, at least outwardly; to conforme themselues to good courses, till it come to the master corruption, to the head sinne; to the cfat sinne that their profit commeth in by, ⟨p. 34⟩or their dsweet sinne that they doe naturally take pleasure and delight in: but there it sticketh fast, and goeth not on, (if at all) without much adoe, but with great difficultie.
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