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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 8: Quest. How may we best cure the Love of being Flatter'd? SERMON VIII.
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.
2. To All the remainders of any tolerable, innate, 1and congenite capacity of receiving Good advice, Examples, and helps for their recovery. The very Stock is corrupted, that no Graft of Virtue can be planted on them: They become reprobate to every good work. There is in many from the Birth a promising Receptivity, we look on them as more susceptible of Virtue than others: Now love to vicious Flatterers, and hearkening to them very frequently, overthrows these very foundations on which we might build, that the person remains for ever a Cage of unclean Birds, and leaves such hopeless.
2. To All the remainders of any tolerable, innate, 1and congenite capacity of receiving Good advice, Examples, and helps for their recovery. The very Stock is corrupted, that no Graffe of Vertue can be planted on them: They become reprobate to every good work. There is in many from the Birth a promising Receptivity, we look on them as more susceptible of Vertue than others: Now love to vitious Flatterers, and hearkening to them very frequently, overthrows these very foundations on which we might build, that the person remains for ever a Cage of unclean Birds, and leaves such hopeless.
- 12. Natural Inclinations to Good.
3. To their Wealth and Estates: 1So many an imprudent and unexperienced Heir is gulled out of his Estate and Inheritance. The Flatterer ⟨p. 188⟩by his wiles derives the Substance and Labours of the deceased Father from the Children to himself and his. Solomon notes this,