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Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels…
Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels & cordials / by Joseph Alleine ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1672
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.
Object. You bind heavy burdens: what must we be always in the traces? surely this severity of Religion is more then needs.
Answ. 1. Burden man! why, it is thy Happiness: If Holiness and pleasing God be a burden, Health is a burden; Heaven and Happiness are burdens.
Answ. 2. This is no other burden then what God himself hath bound upon your consciences; Rom. 9. 20. Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God! Have I put upon you a devised and unnecessary strictness? or bound that burden upon you which I will not touch with one of my fingers? 1 Cor. 9. 8. Say I this as a man, or saith not the Law the same also? I pray you whose word is this? Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long, Prov. 23. 17. Do all to the glory of God, 1 Cor. 10. 31. Exercise thy self unto godliness, 1 Tim. 4. 7. What have I pressed but what the Saints have practiced? Phil. 3. 13, 14. One thing I do, I press towards the mark, Psal. 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seek after. And Psal. 119. 38. Thy servant that is devoted to thy fear.