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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
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2. They cannot see those stumbling-blocks that lye in the way, but continually stumble and fall.
3. They cannot so much as discern the colours of those things which they handle, and therefore as it is, Isay 5. 20. They call evil good, and good evil, &c. And one thing there is that adds to their misery more then is in those that are corporally blind; namely, that they seek not fit guides to lead them, as it is said of the sorcerer, that he did, Acts 13. 11. for either they trust wholly to themselves, because they do not know that they are blind, Apoc. 3. 17. or else they follow some blind guide, so that both fall into the ditch.
3. They cannot so much as discerne the colours of those things which they handle, and therefore as it is, Isay 5. 20. They call evill good, and good evill, &c. And one thing there is that addes to their misery more then is in those that are corporally blinde; namely, that they seeke not fit guides to leade them, as it is said of the sorcerer, that he did, Acts 13. 11. for either they trust wholly to themselves, because they doe not know that they are blinde, Apoc. 3. 17. or else they follow some blinde guide, so that both fall into the ditch.
Use 1. This may serve to admonish us, to acknowledge our spiritual blindness, and to labour to get out of it. For it is in every one of us either in whole or in part. We should therefore think with our selves how great a misery it is to continue in perpetual darkness and in a most thick mist. Christ wept over Jerusalem for this their blindness.