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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 3 › For the duties here required.
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.
For the duties here required.
Say first, hast thou ever worshipped the true God purely according to his will? Secondly, hast thou observed all those outward duties of his worship, as prayer, and vows, and fasting, and meditating, and the rest? Thirdly, hast thou repaired to Gods house, observed family duties, received the Preachers of the Gospel?
Or for the sins here forbidden.
Say first, 1hast thou not sometimes walked after the imaginations of thy own heart, serving God out of custom, or (after the manner of thy fore-fathers) by will-worship and superstitions? Secondly, hast thou not committed idol worship, conceiving of God in thy mind, or respecting him in thy sense in the likeness of a creature? 2Thirdly, hast thou not mentioned the names of other gods, either by way of swearing, or apology? Fourthly, hast thou not made an image to liken God to it, 3or used any gesture of love and reverence to any such images? Fifthly, in a word, hast thou not been careless to worship God,