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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.
Well then, would you know what frame of heart is pleasing to God? why this humble, sincere, zealous, active, frame, this believing, meek, self-denying, resolved frame; this is the frame that is well pleasing in the sight of God?
Secondly, As to your performances, more briefly ⟨p. 28⟩that those may please God, you must heedfully look to these five things.
1. That they be done by the right Rule; which is Gods Word; You must not follow the imaginations of your own hearts, Numb. 15. 39. you must not do that which is right in your own eyes: In all sacred actions you must have Gods command to warrant you: you may not offer to God of that, of which you are not able to say, Thou requirest these things at our hands, Isa. 1. 12. In all civil actions you must have Gods allowance: Be sure he will never accept that which his Word condemns; under pains of Gods displeasure, dare not to set your hands to what the Word forbids.