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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.
1. For the first, if you will take comfort indeed, you must resolve to believe neither the ⟨p. 57⟩devil, not the flesh, neither to credit Satan nor your own hearts, but only God, speaking in his holy Word.
1. For the first, if you will take comfort indeed, you must resolve to beleeve neither the ⟨p. 57⟩divell, not the flesh, neither to credit Satan nor your owne hearts, but onely God, speaking in his holy Word.
The devil is a known, and wilful, and purposed liar, and always almost frameth his tale against truth.
The divell is a knowne, and wilfull, and purposed lyar, and alwaies almost frameth his tale against turth.
If he meet with a sinner that feeleth not sin at all; he will flatter him with false hopes, and make him (if he can) to believe that all is well, and that God will show mercy to him, though he have no manner of right unto it. And ⟨p. 58⟩by his good will he would have men lulled a sleep, with these false and vain and worthless comforts, even till their dying day. But when he cannot hold them any longer in this sweet dream, but that they begin to see and to feel sin, and to fear Gods judgements; then he will tell them a quite contrary tale. That there is no hope, that the time is past, that God will not receive them, that their offences are unpardonable, that it is in vain to seek mercy, that the ⟨p. 59⟩