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Four useful discourses viz. ... /Four usefull discourses viz. ... /
Four useful discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1675
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Another Rule will be this, Often call your Hearts unto an account, oftentimes be communing with your own Hearts in this manner: O my Soul, was there not such a time that thou wert stirred and affected, when thou didst hear such and such things? Why what is become of all thy Stirrings, and of all those Resolutions and Truths, that thou hast heard? O my Soul, where are they? What hast thou done with them? O, it would ⟨p. 199⟩be of admirable Use, if you would take an account of your hearts.
Another Rule will be this, Often call your Hearts unto an account, oftentimes be communing with your own Hearts in this manner: O my Soul, was there not such a time that thou wert stirr'd and affected, when thou did'st hear such and such things? Why what is become of all thy Stirrings, and of all those Resolutions and Truths, that thou hast heard? O my Soul, where are they? What hast thou done with them? O, it would ⟨p. 199⟩be of admirable Use, if you would take an account of your hearts.
But when Men and Women are stirred sometimes, and go away and never call their Hearts to an account what is become of them; no marvel though the things of the Gospel do not abide, but vanish all, and are as Water spilt upon the Ground.
But when Men and Women are stirr'd sometimes, and go away and never call their Hearts to an account what is become of them; no marvel though the things of the Gospel do not abide, but vanish all, and are as Water spilt upon the Ground.
And further, Take heed of secret sins: Thou hast no power to purge thy Heart, but thou mayst in great measure abandon the Acts of sin. That Man or Woman that lives in a Secret sin, I say, that Secret sin will either Eat out the Truths that he hath heard, or the Truth will Eat out that sin. Thou comest to hear the Word, and hast many Blessed things Revealed to thee, I say, they will either Eat out thy Secret sin, or thy Secret sin will Eat out them: And which of the two dost thou think, thou hadst best be rid of?