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Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…
Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at Kettering in Northamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weaver, 1626London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer, 1626
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6. Nay further, some out of a Pharisaical pretence of humility and modesty; but in truth, from the secret suggestion of a guilty conscience, which ministers unto them more then matter enough of true and just doubting, are notable wranglers for Papistical doubting.1
6. Nay further, some out of a Pharisaicall pretence of humility and modesty; but in truth, from the secret suggestion of a guilty conscience, which ministers vnto them more then matter enough of true and iust doubting, are notable wranglers for Papisticall doubting.1
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Papistic•.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Papistic•.
Thus you see, some there are also, who do not assure themselves of future happiness, either upon true or false grounds. Yet I am persuaded, the greatest part of those who live within the sound of the Gospel, are ordinarily confident without cause, and secure of their salvation; when as in truth & trial They have no surer interest or better claim to the kingdom of heaven, then the foolish Virgins, and the rest of that deluded rank, which I mentioned a little before. Let a Minister of some great Congregation, wherein there are very few Professors, which is no hard thing to find, and where there is no profession, especially the Gospel being peaceably preached, there can ordinarily be no power of Christianity; shows there may be, indeed without substance; but not the power of godliness, without visible appearance; as appears in the Preparatives: I say, let him interrogate, and ⟨p. 298⟩ask the rest of his people one after another, be they hundreds or thousands, what conceits they hold of themselves for the world to come? what they think will become of them after this life? what their present judgement is of their spiritual estate? And I think he shall scarce meet with any, who will not in some kind or other discover some groundless confidence of his wellbeing that way. Their answer ordinarily would be to this purpose: We thank God, we have