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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 6: Quest. How a Child of God is to keep himself in the Love of God. SERMON VI.
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Nay thus it is likewise in the inordinate Love of Children, which is soon done: and they become Idols, and God in his jealousy breaks them,1 or breaks us for them, as he did old Eli, honouring his Sons above God. And he that loveth Son or Daughter more than me, is not worthy of me, (Math. 10.37.) saith Christ.
Nay thus it is likewise in the inordinate Love of Children, which is soon done: and they become Idols, and God in his jealousie breaks them,1 or breaks us for them, as he did old Eli, honouring his Sons above God. And he that loveth Son or Daughter more than me, is not worthy of me, (Math. 10.37.) saith Christ.
3. Because the Love of the World is a Choke-pear to all that's truly good; as is clear in the Thorny Ground. Math. 13. v. 7.22. Experience teacheth this universally; and the nature of the things being contrary one to the other, and killing one of another*: one being Spiritual and Heavenly, the other Carnal, Sensual, and Destructive; ⟨p. 133⟩yea both are destroyers of each other.2