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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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ADVICE TO SUFFERERS.

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.

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:36p. 4

For the First; The soul, here, is to be taken for that most excellent part of man, that dwelleth in the body; that immortal, spiritual substance, that is, and will be capable of life, and motion, of sense and reason; yea, that will abide a rational being, when the body is returned to the dust as it was. This is that great thing, that our Lord Jesus intends, when he bids his Disciples in a day of Trial, fear him that can destroy both body and soul in Hell. (Luk. 12.5.) That great thing, I say, that he there cautions them to take care of. According to Peter here, Let them commit the keeping of their soul to him in well-doing.

For the First; The soul, here, is to be taken for that most excellent part of man, that dwelleth in the body; that immortal, spiritual substance, that is, and will be capable of life, and motion, of sense and reason; yea, that will abide a rational being, when the body is returned to the dust as it was. This is that great thing, that our Lord Jesus intends, when he bids his Disciples in a day of Tryal, fear him that can destroy both body and soul in Hell. (Luk. 12.5.) That great thing, I say, that he there cautions them to take care of. According to Peter here, Let them commit the keeping of their soul to him in well-doing.

:37p. 4–5

Secondly, Now to commit this soul to God, is to carry it to him, to lift it to him, upon my bended knees, and to pray him for the Lord Jesus Christs sake, to take it into his holy care, and to let it be under his keeping. Also, that he will please to deliver it from all those snares that are laid for ⟨p. 5⟩it, 'twixt this and the next world, and that he will see that it be forth coming, safe and sound, at the Great and Terrible judgment, notwithstanding so many have engaged themselves against it.

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