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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.
Pr. 3. That when you have done all, if God be not pleased you have done nothing. Settle it upon your hearts, That all is in vain that is not done for God: when you do not please God you do not profit your selves. When men offer never so richly, and freely, if not in such a manner as is pleasing to God, all is but a vain oblation, Isa. 1. 13. If men will do more then ever God required, and be zealous in things that God hath not commanded, it is but in vain that they worship him, Matth. 15. 9. Beloved, so much time as you have lived to your selves you have lived in vain; because it was quite besides your end. O it is a heart-cutting consideration to a tender Christian to think of this; that when his life is so short, and time so little in all, yet he must be fain to cut off so much! why man, so many hours must thou cut off from thy days, and so many years from thy life, as thou hast lived not to God but to thy self; They are all lost as to ⟨p. 41⟩the ends of life and time. If on repentance thou be forgiven, thou art not rewarded for them.
Pr. 3. That when you have done all, if God be not pleased you have done nothing. Settle it upon your hearts, That all is in vain that is not done for God: when you do not please God you do not profit your selves. When men offer never so richly, and freely, if not in such a manner as is pleasing to God, all is but a vain oblation, Isa. 1. 13. If men will do more then ever God required, and be zealous in things that God hath not commanded, it is but in vain that they worship him, Matth. 15. 9. Beloved, so much time as you have lived to your selves you have lived in vain; because it was quite besides your end. O it is a heart-cutting consideration to a tender Christian to think of this; that when his life is so short, and time so little in all, yet he must be fain to cut off so much! why man, so many hours must thou cut off from thy dayes, and so many years from thy life, as thou hast lived not to God but to thy self; They are all lost as to ⟨p. 41⟩