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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.
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.
That Wife never truly loved her Husband that loves her Jewels above him. Did not Israel do so when they made a Calf of the Jewels God gave them, and a God of that Calf, and themselves Beasts in worshipping of it: What abominable Idolatry, what Apostasy, what Ingratitude is here!
That Wife never truly loved her Husband that loves her Jewels above him. Did not Israel do so when they made a Calf of the Jewels God gave them, and a God of that Calf, and themselves Beasts in worshipping of it: What abominable Idolatry, what Apostasie, what Ingratitude is here!
1. All that hath hitherto been said of this great Duty of Keeping our selves in the Love of God, is Practical, and carries Application with it, containing true signs of such as keep themselves in Gods Love. What is that but a great Use of Examination of our State and of our Practice? 1. Whether we are in the Love of God? 2. Whether we do indeed walk so as to keep our selves in it? Be not deceived, compare your State, Heart and Life with these Rules; be serious and solemn in it.
1. All that hath hitherto been said of this great Duty of Keeping our selves in the Love of God, is Practical, and carryes Application with it, containing true signs of such as keep themselves in Gods Love. What is that but a great Use of Examination of our State and of our Practice? 1. Whether we are in the Love of God? 2. Whether we do indeed walk so as to keep our selves in it? Be not deceived, compare your State, Heart and Life with these Rules; be serious and solemn in it.
2. You have had by way of contrary, sufficiently hinted, the cross Practice of the greatest part of the World herein, who keep themselves out of Gods Love, by keeping in an evil State of Enmity between God and them: And though God hath long beseeched them by his Ambassadors to be reconciled to God,