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The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on AdamThe paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam
The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. marks. By T.H.The paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. markes. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young for R. Young, 1640
THE PATTERN of perfection. › Section 13: §. 13.THE PATERNE of perfection. › Section 13: §. 13.
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.
Answ. 1What will you bestow? This is Gods market day; if you will bid like a chapman, you are like to have them. I will tell you what ⟨p. 264⟩you must give, and I will set down the price in three particulars.
Answ. 1What will you bestow? This is Gods market day; if you will bid like a chapman, you are like to have them. I will tell you what ⟨p. 264⟩you must give, and I will set downe the price in three particulars.
- 1With what we must part for them.With what wee must part for them.
1. A man must part with all his sins and corruptions; and a man may do that upon as reasonable terms as may be: for a mans sins will never do him good but hurt, and therefore he ought to forsake them.
1. A man must part with all his sinnes and corruptions; and a man may doe that upon as reasonable termes as may be: for a mans sins will never doe him good but hurt, and therefore he ought to forsake them.
2. (If it please God to set his commodities at so high a rate, then) we must forsake all the comforts of this life, rather then lose salvation. Not only pleasures, and profits, and delights; but meat, drink, and apparel, if God will have his wares so dear. We must part with all kindred, friends, and all, yea, life it self, if occasion should serve. But sometimes the Lord is so