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Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises,…
Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God / by William Bates ...
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1699
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Some are swelled with the Conceit of their Riches: but this is very unreasonable, for no external accession can add real value to a person, Fools only worship a Golden Calf. If any air of Pride rises in a Rich Possessor, it may as justly provoke God to recall his Blessings as he liberally bestowed them.
Some are swell'd with the Conceit of their Riches: but this is very unreasonable, for no external accession can add real value to a person, Fools only worship a Golden Calf. If any air of Pride rises in a Rich Possessor, it may as justly provoke God to recal his Blessings as he liberally bestowed them.
Others presume upon the Nobility of their Extraction, but whoever our more immediate Parents be, if we ascend in our thoughts, we must come to our grand Progenitor Adam, the Son of the Earth, and Fountain of Mankind. All are Streams from him, if some slide along in the low Grounds, and some are received in Marble Repositories, they all flow from the same Original. How often do the Honourable tarnish the Colour and Lustre of their Blood by degenerous Actions? How often are the Rich and Great forsaken of their Dependents, and only attended by a train of Miseries, maintained by their Expenses? Such Revolutions are not more strange than Eclipses are to the Moon.
Others presume upon the Nobility of their Extraction, but whoever our more immediate Parents be, if we ascend in our thoughts, we must come to our grand Progenitor Adam, the Son of the Earth, and Fountain of Mankind. All are Streams from him, if some slide along in the low Grounds, and some are received in Marble Repositories, they all flow from the same Original. How often do the Honourable tarnish the Colour and Lustre of their Blood by degenerous Actions? How often are the Rich and Great forsaken of their Dependents, and only attended by a train of Miseries, maintain'd by their Expences? Such Revolutions are not more strange than Eclipses are to the Moon.