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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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.
The multitude of sins bring the dangerest times. When there are the greatest abominations committed, there is the greatest danger to be expected. For the danger of times lieth not in regard of outward troubles but in regard of the manifold corruptions that are in us, and the many evils committed by us, when men are most wicked, then the time is most dangerous, for it is not the power of Satan, nor his wicked instruments, that can bring misery to ⟨p. 4⟩the People of God, but the root of all ruin lieth within our selves, Jere. 2.19. Here is the evil, here is the venom of all afflictions, and the gall of all troubles, that we have forsaken the Lord, that his fear is not within our hearts, 2 Chron. 15.5. They were without blessings, because without God.
The multitude of sins bring the dangerest times. When there are the greatest abominations committed, there is the greatest danger to be expected. For the danger of times lyeth not in regard of outward troubles but in regard of the manifold corruptions that are in us, and the many evils committed by us, when men are most wicked, then the time is most dangerous, for it is not the power of Satan, nor his wicked instruments, that can bring misery to ⟨p. 4⟩the People of God, but the roote of all ruine lyeth within our selves, Iere. 2.19. Here is the evill, here is the venome of all afflictions, and the gall of all troubles, that we have forsaken the Lord, that his feare is not within our hearts, 2 Chron. 15.5. They were without blessings, because without God.
Instruction Use. to teach us, how to procure comfort to our own souls & to recover our Country & times out of those dangers that are threatened against us, its not means, nor men, nor policy, nor strength, that can do it, till our evils be reformed. Let every man look to his own ways, and reform his own corruptions, and turn from his evil courses, and then all dangers and inconveniences will turn away, and God will be a God to us, when they did eat and drink, and did righteously, was it not well with them, I