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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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3. They gratify Satan, and satisfy his cruel humour; who if he cannot have a mans company in Hell hereafter; (for if he were sure of that, he would make him live as joyfully and Jovially, as he could possibly) he labours might and main, to hold him upon the rack of slavish distrustful terrors, all the days of his life.
3. They gratifie Satan, and satisfie his cruell humor; who if hee cannot haue a mans company in Hell hereafter; (for if he were sure of that, he would make him liue as ioyfully and Iouially, as hee could possibly) he labours might and maine, to hold him vpon the racke of slauish distrustfull terrours, all the dayes of his life.
4. They are thereby many times occasions of discouragement, and disheartening to those which are without, that they ⟨p. 355⟩are more loth to enter into the ways of life; prejudging them to be thorny and rough, dark and deep, full of dumps and drooping, of heaviness and horror; whereas indeed and truth, they are all paved with mercy and love, strewed with Violets and Roses, full of fresh springs of spiritual comforts, and sweetly enlightened even in the darkest passages, with heavenly and healing beams of the Sun of righteousness. For whether it be fit to believe the Spirit of all truth and comfort; or the scornful spirit of impure drunkards, and Satan's Revellers; judge you. This precise and1 strict walking, say they, which is pressed upon us with such importunateness, and confidence, would not lead us to mopishness and melancholy; would enchaine us to that abridgement of our pleasure, restraint from company; from crowning our selves with Rose-buds, and former courses of good fellowship and mirth, of which our generous and Jovial spirits are most impatient, and utterly uncapable. But what saith the blessed Spirit; aHer ways are ways of pleasantness: and all her paths are peace. They give them occasion to mis-conceive, that the yoke of Christ is burdensome, and will gall their necks: whereas in truth and trial, it is