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A care-cloth
A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to advise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to bear them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1624
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.
He weeps in truth, that weeps without witness. 1Take thou some time this day, or some other day, to get alone by thy self, and press these things upon thy self, that have bin so earnestly beaten upon thee in the preaching of the Word; and there bowing the knees of thy soul before God, begin with an acknowledgement unto him, that now thou confessest this mourning: for the public sins is a duty, which he doth justly require at thine hands, & which thou hast sinfully neglected heretofore, but now art sorrowful for that neglect, and desirous to perform hereafter; and then humbly beseech him to thaw, by the sweet and warm beams of his Grace, this frozen heart of thine, and so to smite this rocky soul, that it may yield forth, as once the natural Rock did, even Rivers of water. Pray him, according to his most free and gracious promise, to pour upon thee the Spirit of Grace and supplication, and removing the heart of stone, to put within thee, in stead of it, an hart of flesh, that thou mayst now do, what David did, and what thy self by his example art called upon by the Ministry (and art accordingly desirous) to do.
He weepes in truth, that weepes without witnesse. 1Take thou some time this day, or some other day, to get alone by thy selfe, and presse these things vpō thy self, that haue bin so earnestly beaten vpō thee in the preaching of the Word; and there bowing the knees of thy soule before God, begin with an acknowledgment vnto him, that now thou confessest this mourning: for the publike sins is a duty, which he doth iustly require at thine hands, & which thou hast sinfully neglected heretofore, but now art sorrowfull for that neglect, and desirous to performe hereafter; and then humbly beseech him to thaw, by the sweete and warme beames of his Grace, this frozen heart of thine, and so to smite this rockie soule, that it may yeeld forth, as once the naturall Rocke did, euen Riuers of water. Pray him, according to his most free and gracious promise, to powre vpon thee the Spirit of Grace and supplication, and remouing the heart of stone, to put within thee, in stead of it, an hart of flesh, that thou mayst now doe, what Dauid did, and what thy selfe by his example art called vpon by the Ministrie (and art accordingly desirous) to doe.
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