A27107:967
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.
2. God sendeth affliction, to seal unto us our Adoption: for every child whom God loveth, he correcteth: 1And he is a Bastard that is not corrected. Yea, it is a sure note, that where God seeth sin and smites not, there he detests and loves not. Therefore it is said that he* suffered the wicked sons of Ely to continue in their sins without correction, because the Lord would stay them. O• thec other side, there is no surer token of God's fatherly love and care, than to be corrected with some Cross, as oft as we commit any sinful crime. Affliction therefore is a seal of Adoption, no sign of Reprobation. For the purest Corn is cleanest •anned, the finest Gold is of•est tried, and the sweetest Grape is hardest pressed, and the truest Christian heaviest crossed.
2. God sendeth affliction, to seal unto us our Adoption: for every child whom God loveth, he correcteth: 1And he is a Bastard that is not corrected. Yea, it is a sure note, that where God seeth sin and sinites not, there he detests and loves not. Therefore it is said that he* suffered the wicked sons of Ely to continue in their sins without correction, because the Lord would stay them. O• thec other side, there is no surer token of God's fatherly love and care, than to be corrected with some Cross, as oft as we commit any sinful crime. Affliction therefore is a seal of Adoption, no sign of Reprobation. For the purest Corn is cleanest •anned, the finest Gold is of•est tryed, and the sweetest Grape is hardest pressed, and the truest Christian heaviest crossed.