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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.
§ 6.
But tell me hast thou not afflicted thy self? ⟨p. 46⟩hast thou not wept and mourned? hast thou not turned thy laughter into sorrow, and thy Joy into heaviness? hast thou not cast down thy self before the Lord? and found out and acknowledged all thy faults against thy self, (so far as by searching thou wast able to find them.)
But tell me hast thou not afflicted thy selfe? ⟨p. 46⟩hast thou not wept and mourned? hast thou not turned thy laughter into sorrow, and thy Joy into heavinesse? hast thou not cast downe thy selfe before the Lord? and found out and acknowledged all thy faults against thy selfe, (so farre as by searching thou wast able to find them.)
If thy soul can say I have laboured to see all my sins; and laboured to confess and weep for them, and complained of them, and shamed my self and ⟨p. 47⟩judged my self.
If thy soule can say I have laboured to see all my sinnes; and laboured to confesse and weepe for them, and complained of them, and shamed my selfe and ⟨p. 47⟩