A36221:39
Old Mr. Dod's sayings
London: printed by A. Maxwell, 1671
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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.
XXXVI. The only way for a distressed Soul that cannot fasten on former Comforts, by reason of future Backslidings, and so questions all his former evidences, is, To renew his Repentance, as if he had never believed.
XXXVI. The only way for a distressed Soul that cannot fasten on former Comforts, by reason of future Backshdings, and so questions all his former evidences, is, To renew his Repentance, as if he had never believed.
XXXVII. Some are apt to think, if they are in such a Family, under such a Minister, out of such Temptations, the Devil would not meddle with them as he doth: But such should know, That so long as his old Friend is alive within, He will be knocking at the door without.
XXXVIII. The seeds were sown so deep in the Nature of the Devil, and the Saint, that they will never be rooted out, till the Devil cease to be Devil, and Sin to be Sin, and the Saint to be a Saint.
XXXIX. The Sinner is the Devil's Miller, always grinding; and the Devil is always filling the Hopper, that the Mill may not stand still.
XL. There be some sins that an ignorant person cannot commit; but there are far more that an ignorant person cannot but commit.
XLI. There be five ties by which the God of Heaven hath bound himself to be the Saints Life-Guard against the Powers of Darkness. 1. His relation to them as a Father. 2. His Love to them, in respect as they being the Birth of his Everlasting Council, as partakers of his own Likeness. 3. The price of his Sons Blood, and his Covenant with them. 4. Their Dependence upon him, and Expectation from him, in all their straits. Now the Expectation of the poor shall not perish, Psal. 9. 18. 5. Christ's present Employment in Heaven, is to see all things carried fairly between God and them.
XLI. There be five tyes by which the God of Heaven hath bound himself to be the Saints Life-Guard against the Powers of Darkness. 1. His relation to them as a Father. 2. His Love to them, in respect as they being the Birth of his Everlasting Council, as partakers of his own Likeness. 3. The price of his Sons Blood, and his Covenant with them. 4. Their Dependance upon him, and Expectation from him, in all their straits. Now the Expectation of the poor shall not perish, Psal. 9. 18. 5. Christ's present Employment in Heaven, is to see all things carried fairly between God and them.
XLII. Brown-bread with the Gospel is good Fare.
LONDON, Printed by A. Maxwell, in the Year M. DC. LXXI.