A30579:500
Gospel-conversation
Gospel-conversation: wherein is showed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Cripplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nigh, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
GOSPEL Conversation. › THE MISERY OF THOSE MEN THAT HAVE THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE.
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.
6. Saul he was very careful to enquire of God, what he should do in businesses of great consequence, in the 37. ver. of that 14. chap. of the 1 of Samuel, there he would not go out, till he had first enquired of God. Yea more than all this,
7. He was a man that had a very reverend esteem of the Prophets of God: when Samuel came to him, in the 1 of Samuel 15. 13. O thou blessed of the Lord (saith Saul to Samuel) Yea, yet further than this;
8. When Samuel showed unto him, what his sin was, in the 30. ver. of that 15. chap. he comes and confesses it before the people, and saith, I have sinned, I have sinned against the Lord: merely at the conviction of one Prophet: Yea, yet more than this,
8. When Samuel shewed unto him, what his sin was, in the 30. ver. of that 15. chap. he comes and confesses it before the people, and saith, I have sinned, I have sinned against the Lord: meerly at the conviction of one Prophet: Yea, yet more than this,
9. God seemed to be with Saul very much, and to show great respect unto him, to make him an Instrument of much good to Israel; He granted unto him as glorious a victory as ever man had in this world: (for so we may call it) and if there be any outward thing in the world might be gathered as an argument of Gods love, then such a remarkable victory as he had over his enemies: the victory you shall find in the 1 of Samuel, 13. 5. and so read on afterwards in that Chapter, and the next, you shall find