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Christs counsel to his languishing church of SardisChrists counsell to his languishing church of Sardis
Christs counsel to his languishing church of Sardis. Or, The dying or decaying Christian, with the means and helps of his recovery and strengthening. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B. of D. late preacher to the inhabitants of S. Mildreds Bread Street, LondonChrists counsell to his languishing church of Sardis. Or, The dying or decaying Christian, with the meanes and helpes of his recovery and strengthening. By Obadiah Sedgwicke, B. of D. late preacher to the inhabitants of S. Mildreds Bredstreet, London
London: printed by Thomas for L. Fawne, 1640
CHRISTS COUNSEL to His languishing CHURCH.CHRISTS COVNSELL to His languishing CHURCH.
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.
1 Repentance is possible for any sins which are committed, and if renewed repentance be possible, then a recovery again is possible, for as much as our recovery again consists very much in a renewed repentance.
1 Repentance is possible for any sinnes which are committed, and if renewed repentance be possible, then a recovery againe is possible, for as much as our recovery again consists very much in a renewed repentance.
2 Yea and we have examples of weakened Christians, strengthened again, as we know in David, exceedingly wounded, ⟨p. 118⟩but yet recovered, and Peter grievously falling, but graciously rising again.
2 Yea and we have examples of weakened Christians, strengthened againe, as we know in David, exceedingly wounded, ⟨p. 118⟩but yet recovered, and Peter grievously falling, but graciously rising againe.
2 If thou doest strengthen thy condition, the Lord will mercifully pardon thy former decayings: I confess that there may be sore grounds of fear to entangle and depress the spirit of a decayed Christian, for his sins (by which he hath decayed) may perhaps be heinous for the kind, and also high for the circumstances, being against knowledge, against the workings of conscience, against the workings of his graces, against the tender love of God in Christ, showed to him more then to another, so that his heart may strongly misgive him, whether