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The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › Meditations against Despair, or doubting of God's Mercy.
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.
Meditations against Despair, or doubting of God's Mercy.
IT is found by continual experience that near the time of Death (when the Children of God are weakest) then Satan makes the greatest flourish of his strength, and assails them with his strongest temptations. For he knoweth that either he must now or never prevail: for if their souls once go to Heaven, he shall never vex nor trouble them any more. And therefore he will now bestir himself as much as he can, and labour to set before their eyes all the gross sins which ever they committed, and the Judgments of God which are due unto them: thereby ⟨p. 403⟩to drive them, if he can, unto despair, which is a grievouser sin than all the sins hat they committed, or he can accuse them of.
If Satan therefore trouble thy Conscience more towards thy death,1 than in thy life;
- 1Satan's first stratagem in time of death. The defeature.
1. Confess thy sins unto God, not only in general, but also in particular.