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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.
Rule VIII. To strike in with Gods interest when it is falling. To join our selves to the Lords people when its the weakest side: To espouse their interest with Moses, when they were in deep affliction, Heb. 11. 25, 26. To own our selves to be some of them, undauntedly, when this way is every where spoken against; this is to tread Antipodes to the course of this world.
Rule VIII. To strike in with Gods interest when it is falling. To joyn our selves to the Lords people when its the weakest side: To espouse their interest with Moses, when they were in deep affliction, Heb. 11. 25, 26. To own our selves to be some of them, undauntedly, when this way is every where spoken against; this is to tread Antipodes to the course of this world.
Rule IX. To be most cruel to the sin that is naturally most dear. The hypocrite hides his sweet ⟨p. 8⟩morsels under his tongue: he spares as it were the fattest of the Cattle: he saith, The Lord pardon his servant concerning this thing: But when a man shall off with his right hand, out with the right eye, serve his Absalom as Joab did, when he took three darts, and thrust through his heart, this is to do more then others. The sincere Christian is most angry with the sin of his temper, against this he aims the arrows of all his prayers: he keeps him from his iniquity: he drives the whole herd of sin before him, but especially shoots at and singles out this to run it down.
Rule IX. To be most cruel to the sin that is naturally most dear. The hypocrite hides his sweet ⟨p. 8⟩morsels under his tongue: he spares as it were the fattest of the Cattel: he saith, The Lord pardon his servant concerning this thing: But when a man shall off with his right hand, out with the right eye, serve his Absolon as Ioab did, when he took three darts, and thrust thorow his heart, this is to do more then others. The sincere Christian is most angry with the sin of his temper, against this he aims the arrows of all his prayers: he keeps him from his iniquity: he drives the whole herd of sin before him, but especially shoots at and singles out this to run it down.