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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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.
Our endeavours also must be joined with the grace of God, because grace tends thereunto, both to afford us strength to endeavour, and also to stir us up to exercise that strength.
Our endeavours also must be joyned with the grace of God, because grace tends thereunto, both to afford us strength to endeavour, and also to stirre us up to exercise that strength.
Use 1. This may serve to reprove those slothful men, which wish for many things, and after their manner also ask them of God, but yet will not move so much as their finger to obtain them: these men are like that slothful man, that the wi•e man describes, Prov. 22▪ 13. and elsewhere, where the slothful man carries his hand in his bosom, &c.
Vse 1. This may serve to reprove those slothfull men, which wish for many things, and after their manner also ask them of God, but yet will not move so much as their finger to obtaine them: these men are like that slothfull man, that the wi•e man describes, Prov. 22▪ 13. and elsewhere, where the slothfull man carries his hand in his bosome, &c.
2. To exhort us, daily to be mindful of this obligation, when we pray unto God for the forgiveness of our sins, for deliverance from temptations, for newness of life, or any other thing, let us constantly also use our endeavours to attain these ends.