A27107:393
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.
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.
3 If thou dost not speedily repent thee of thy sins, they will bring upon thee yet far greater plagues, losses, crosses, shame and judgments, than ever hitherto befell thee. Read Levit. 26. ver. 18, &c. Deut. 28▪ 15, &c.
3 If thou dost not speedily repent thee of thy sins, they will bring upon thee yet far greater plagues, losses, crosses, shame and judgments, than ever hitherto befel thee. Read Levit. 26. ver. 18, &c. Deut. 28▪ 15, &c.
4. And lastly, if thou wilt not cast off thy sin;1 God (when the measure of thine iniquity is full) will cast thee off for thy sin: for as he is just, so he hath power to kill and cast into hell all hardened and impenitent sinners. If therefore thou wilt avoid the cursed effects of sin in this life, and the eternal wrath due thereto in the world to come, ⟨p. 136⟩and be assured that thou art not one of those who are given over to a reprobate sense; 2Let then (O sinner) my counsel be acceptable unto thee: break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy towards the poor: O let there (at length) be an healing of thine error! Nathan used but one Parable,3 and David was converted; Jonah preached but once to Nineveh,