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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.
3. To instruct us, •ever to think that we have received sight, until we find in our selves th•s study and labour to abound in virtue.
3. To instruct us, •ever to think that we have received sight, untill we finde in our selves th•s study and labour to abound in vertue.
Doct. 2. The forgetting of Gods benefits is a great evil and sin and brings misery along with it.
Doct. 2. The forgetting of Gods benefits is a great evill and sinne and brings misery along with it.
For it is here attributed unto those, that are strangers unto virtue, not only as a sin, but also as a great disprofit, and is opposed to that fruitfulness wherein the happiness of the faithful doth consist. It is a sin, because it contains ingratitude in it, and that not the least degree of ingratitude; for though a man be mindful of the benefit which he hath received, purposing to be thankful for it, yet if he doth not render thanks, he is said to be ungrateful; yea, and though he doth render thanks, if he doth it coldly, and doth not endeavour to answer the merits of him that bestowed this benefit upon him, and the dignity of the benefit, he is not yet free from this vice; but if he doth quite forget the benefit which he hath received, then he is rightly said to be as it were twice ungrateful.
For it is here attributed unto those, that are strangers unto vertue, not only as a sinne, but also as a great disprofit, and is opposed to that fruitfulnesse wherein the happinesse of the faithfull doth consist. It is a sinne, because it containes ingratitude in it, and that not the least degree of ingratitude; for though a man be mindfull of the benefit which he hath received, purposing to be thankfull for it, yet if he doth not render thankes, he is said to be ungratefull; yea, and though he doth render thankes, if he doth it coldly, and doth not endeavour to answer the merits of him that bestowed this benefit upon him, and the dignity of the benefit, he is not yet free from this vice; but if he doth quite forget the benefit which he hath received, then he is rightly said to be as it were twice ungratefull.