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Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things
Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for I.A., 1650
Appendix › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Or for the sins here forbidden,
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Or for the sins here forbidden,
Say first, hast thou not sometimes been guilty of blasphemy, or idolatry, or witchcraft, or atheism, or epicurism, or heresy? Secondly, hast thou not been guilty of pride, a sin flatly opposing God, and first committed by devils? Thirdly, hast thou not had inward reasonings that there is no God, or that he seeth not, 1or knoweth not, or that there is no profit in his service? Fourthly, hast thou not failed to love God, and fear God, and to put thy whole trust in God? Fifthly, hast thou not trusted in man, or feared man, or loved the world, and thereby alienated thy heart from God? Sixthly, hast thou not resorted to witches, or in the first place to Physicians, and not to the living God? Seventhly, hast thou not tempted God, and in the matters of God, been either cold or lukewarm, or preposterously zealous? Eighthly, hast thou not a proneness to sin, yea to rebel against God in thy whole man? Ninthly, hast thou not been careless to perform the inward duties of Gods worship in sincerity and truth? if in these thou hast transgressed, then hast thou broken this Commandment, Thou shalt have no gods but me.
Say first, hast thou not sometimes been guilty of blasphemy, or idolatry, or witchcraft, or atheism, or epicurism, or heresie? Secondly, hast thou not been guilty of pride, a sin flatly opposing God, and first committed by devils? Thirdly, hast thou not had inward reasonings that there is no God, or that he seeth not, 1or knoweth not, or that there is no profit in his service? Fourthly, hast thou not failed to love God, and fear God, and to put thy whole trust in God? Fifthly, hast thou not trusted in man, or feared man, or loved the world, and thereby alienated thy heart from God? Sixthly, hast thou not resorted to witches, or in the first place to Physitians, and not to the living God? Seventhly, hast thou not tempted God, and in the matters of God, been either cold or lukewarm, or preposterously zealous? Eighthly, hast thou not a proneness to sin, yea to rebel against God in thy whole man? Ninthly, hast thou not been careless to perform the inward duties of Gods worship in sincerity and truth? if in these thou hast transgressed, then hast thou broken this Commandment, Thou shalt have no gods but me.