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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 2: Quest. How may we Experience in our selves, and Evidence to others that serious Godline…
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Nay show a greater concernedness for them, and that will be a means to convince men that you believe a greater excellency in them, and that they cannot be obtained upon easier terms.
Nay shew a greater concernedness for them, and that will be a means to convince men that you believe a greater excellency in them, and that they cannot be obtained upon easier terms.
7. The more you pretend to the comforts of Christianity the more mortified let your conversation be to the things of the World, and pleasures of Sense, and your carriage more apparently holy. Let it never be said that the Comforts of the Spirit make you give liberty to the Flesh. When men see that the more you pretend to spiritual enjoyments, the more spiritual you are; and the more pleasure you profess to find in Gods ways, the more exactly you walk in them, and the less ye dare sin against him, they will have little to say against you. Those comforts cannot but be real which have so great, so good Effects, and when men see the effects so real, they cannot judge the cause to be less so. Whimsies and Fancies do not use to make men grow in Righteousness, and Humility, and Meekness, and Mortification: Let men see the respect you bear to all Gods Commands, and they will scarce dare to question the comforts you receive from his Promises.
7. The more you pretend to the comforts of Christianity the more mortified let your conversation be to the things of the World, and pleasures of Sense, and your carriage more apparently holy. Let it never be said that the Comforts of the Spirit make you give liberty to the Flesh. When men see that the more you pretend to spiritual enjoyments, the more spiritual you are; and the more pleasure you profess to find in Gods wayes, the more exactly you walk in them, and the less ye dare sin against him, they will have little to say against you. Those comforts cannot but be real which have so great, so good Effects, and when men see the effects so real, they cannot judge the cause to be less so. Whimsies and Fancies do not use to make men grow in Righteousness, and Humility, and Meekness, and Mortification: Let men see the respect you bear to all Gods Commands, and they will scarce dare to question the comforts you receive from his Promises.