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Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers

Name: Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers
Author: John Bunyan

Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers by John Bunyan.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1684

[22], 238, [1] p. · 48k words · Wing B5592 · ESTC R3858

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Seasonable Counsel: OR, ADVICE TO Sufferers. BY JOHN BUNYAN.

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LONDON, Printed for Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry. MDCLXXXIV.

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TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.

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Beloved, I thought it convenient, since many at this day are exposed to sufferings, to give my advice touching that to thee. Namely, that (thou wouldest take heed to thy self, and keep thy Soul diligently, and not suffer thy self to be entangled in those snares that God hath suffered to be laid in the World for some. Beware of men, is the ⟨image 3⟩counsel of Christ, for they will deliver you up. (Mat. 10 17.) Keep thou therefore within the bounds of uprightness and integrity towards both God and man: for that will fortify, that will preserve thee, if not from, yet under the rage of men, in a comfortable and quiet frame of heart. Wherefore do that, and that only, that will justify they innocency, and that will help thee, not with forced Speech, but with good Conscience (when oppressed) to make thy appeals to God, and to the Consciences of all men.

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