A05817:324
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
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 Scriptures mistaken are these.
1 Ezek. 33.14.16. At what time soever a sinner repenteth him of his sin, I will blot out all, &c. Hence the carnal Christian gathereth: That he may repent when he will. It is true: Whensoever a sinner doth repent, GOD will forgive: but the text saith not, that a sinner may repent whensoever he will, but when GOD will give him grace. Many (saith the Scripture) when they would have repented were rejected;1 and could not repent, though they sought it carefully with tears. What comfort yields this Text to thee, who hast not repented, ⟨p. 224⟩nor knowest whether thou shalt have grace to repent hereafter?
1 Ezek. 33.14.16. At what time soeuer a sinner repenteth him of his sinne, I will blot out all, &c. Hence the carnall Christian gathereth: That he may repent when hee will. It is true: Whensoeuer a sinner doth repent, GOD will forgiue: but the text saith not, that a sinner may repent whensoeuer he will, but when GOD will giue him grace. Many (saith the Scripture) when they would haue repented were reiected;1 and could not repent, though they sought it carefully with teares. What comfort yeelds this Text to thee, who hast not repented, ⟨p. 224⟩nor knowest whether thou shalt haue grace to repent heereafter?