A09436:61
A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can…A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can…
A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectual to salvation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectuall to saluation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.
London: printed by John Legate, 1611London: printed by Iohn Legate, 1611
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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.
14. Think often of the ⟨p. 62⟩worst and most grievous things that may befall thee, either in this life or death for the name of Christ: make a reckoning of them, and prepare thy self to bear them: that when they come, they may not seem strange, but be borne the more easily.
14. Thinke often of the ⟨p. 62⟩worst and most grieuous things that may befall thee, either in this life or death for the name of Christ: make a reckoning of them, and prepare thy selfe to beare them: that when they come, they may not seeme strange, but be borne the more easily.
15. Make conscience of idle, vain, unhonest and ungodly thoughts: for these are the seeds and beginnings of actual sin in word & in deed. This want of care in ordering and composing of our thoughts, is often punished with a fearful temptation in the very thought, called of Divines, Tentatio blasphemiarum, a tentation of blasphemies.
15. Make conscience of idle, vaine, vnhonest and vngodly thoughts: for these are the seedes and beginnings of actuall sin in word & in deed. This want of care in ordering and composing of our thoughts, is often punished with a fearefull temptation in the very thought, called of Diuines, Tentatio blasphemiarum, a tentation of blasphemies.
16. When any good motion ⟨p. 63⟩or affection riseth in the heart, suffer it not pass away, but feed it by reading, meditating. praying.