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The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and…
The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and the improvement of solitude in converse with God with some of the author's breathings after him / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1693
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.
2. And God will have the common infirmity of man to be known, that so the weakest may not be utterly discouraged, nor take their weakness to be gracelessness, whilst they see that the strongest also have their infirmities, though not so great as theirs. If any of God's Servants lives in constant holiness and fidelity, without any shakings or stumbling in their way, it would tempt ⟨p. 39⟩some self-accusing troubled Souls, to think that they were altogether graceless, because they are so far short of others. But when we read of a Peters denying his Master in so horrid a manner, with swearing and cursing that he knew not the man, Mat. 26.74. And of his dissimulation and not walking uprightly, Gal. 2. and of a Davids unfriendly and unrighteous dealing with Mephibosheth, the seed of Jonathan; and of his most vile and treacherous dealing with Uriah, a faithful and deserving Subject; it may both abate our wonder and offence at the unfaithfulness of our Friends, and teach us to compassionate their frailty, when they desert us; and also somewhat abate our immoderate dejectedness and trouble, when we have failed God or man our selves.
2. And God will have the common infirmity of man to be known, that so the weakest may not be utterly discouraged, nor take their weakness to be gracelesness, whilst they see that the strongest also have their infirmities, though not so great as theirs. If any of God's Servants lives in constant holiness and fidelity, without any shakings or stumbling in their way, it would tempt ⟨p. 39⟩some self-accusing troubled Souls, to think that they were altogether graceless, because they are so far short of others. But when we read of a Peters denying his Master in so horrid a manner, with swearing and cursing that he knew not the man, Mat. 26.74. And of his dissimulation and not walking uprightly, Gal. 2. and of a Davids unfriendly and unrighteous dealing with Mephibosheth, the seed of Ionathan; and of his most vile and treacherous dealing with Vriah, a faithful and deserving Subject; it may both abate our wonder and offence at the unfaithfulness of our Friends, and teach us to compassionate their frailty, when they desert us; and also somewhat abate our immoderate dejectedness and trouble, when we have failed God or man our selves.