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The oil of gladnessThe oyle of gladnesse
The oil of gladness. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certain sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.
London: printed by G. Miller for George Edwards, 1637
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.
First, the promise makes him think with himself, Assuredly my sins may be pardoned: The righteousness of Christ is sufficient to justify me, and God can accept and forgive me. This makes him run crying and praying to ⟨p. 68⟩God for pardon, and affords a little glimmering of comfort, as when a sick man knows his disease to be curable, and that the Physician can cure him, this is one grain of faith.
First, the promise makes him thinke with himselfe, Assuredly my sinnes may be pardoned: The righteousnesse of Christ is sufficient to justifie me, and God can accept and forgive me. This makes him runne crying and praying to ⟨p. 68⟩God for pardon, and affoords a little glimmering of comfort, as when a sick man knowes his disease to be curable, and that the Physitian can cure him, this is one graine of faith.
Secondly, having continued to pray to God for a space, he then conceiveth a little stronger hope, and saith in himself, I hope God will pardon me, which makes him yet more warm in in his suit, and bringeth a little more consolation, this is an other grain of faith.
Secondly, having continued to pray to God for aspace, he then conceiveth a little stronger hope, and saith in himselfe, I hope God will pardon me, which makes him yet more warme in in his suit, and bringeth a little more consolation, this is an other graine of faith.
Lastly, he begins to conclude, God hath pardoned me; at first, making this conclusion fearfully, (not without admixture of many doubts, which he resisteth, and laboureth to reject) and at length with more strength and less doubting, till he attain a very full assurance, that scarce findeth any wavering, and then hath his soul a strong consolation, even a full weight of comfort.