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A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be…
A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be holy by John Bunyan.
London: printed by B.W. for Benj. Alsop, 1684
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.
2. Besides, Gods withdrawing, to wit, of those common workings, if they were withdrawn without a cause given, (which yet I question) yet why may they not be withdrawn from these, as well as from his own peculiar ones. He knows but little, that doth not know that God ofttimes hides his face from his own, and also withdraws from them the light and great influences of the Holy Ghost: and turns them over at least in their own apprehensions to the ungodly, and to fallen Angels for their Chastisement, or Trial, or Instruction, &c.
2. Besides, Gods withdrawing, to wit, of those common workings, if they were withdrawn without a cause given, (which yet I question) yet why may they not be withdrawn from these, as well as from his own peculiar ones. He knows but little, that doth not know that God ofttimes hides his face from his own, and also withdraws from them the light and great influences of the Holy Ghost: and turns them over at least in their own apprehensions to the ungodly, and to fallen Angels for their Chastisement, or Tryal, or Instruction, &c.
3. And why may not God, since these Rebels had such working with them, as that their minds, by their ⟨p. 57⟩understandings, their will and affections, by their judgment and consciences were somewhat taken and allured, cause a withdrawing of these for trial, and to see if they would cry after him to return.
3. And why may not God, since these Rebels had such working with them, as that their minds, by their ⟨p. 57⟩understandings, their will and affections, by their judgment and consciences were somewhat taken and allured, cause a withdrawing of these for tryal, and to see if they would cry after him to return.