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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 2 › Section 18
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Posit. 4. That those that are gradually good, are yet imperfectly good, as appears by the remainders of sin in the best; and would be evident by a particular enumeration of their Graces, which is the best thing in the best men; they know but in part, and they love but in part, and delight in God but imperfectly, Philip. 3.9, 10, 11, 12.
Posit. 5. Those that are really good though imperfectly good, are truly acceptable unto God. God will not break the bruised Reed, nor quench the smoking Flax, Mat. 12.20. There may be a great deal of smoke where there is but little fire, a great deal of sin where there is but little grace; but yet it is pleasing unto God, if it be true; a little grace is of great value, (a Pearl of small quantity might be of great worth) and better than a great deal of riches, or of gifts; better than a strong Memory pregnant fantasy, solid Judgement, quick Apprehension, voluble ⟨p. 96⟩Tongue, or any such things; because the least Grace is a pledge of Heaven, and so are none of all the rest.
Posit. 5. Those that are really good though imperfectly good, are truly acceptable unto God. God will not break the bruised Reed, nor quench the smoaking Flax, Mat. 12.20. There may be a great deal of smoak where there is but little fire, a great deal of sin where there is but little grace; but yet it is pleasing unto God, if it be true; a little grace is of great value, (a Pearl of small quantity might be of great worth) and better than a great deal of riches, or of gifts; better than a strong Memory pregnant phantacy, solid Judgement, quick Apprehension, voluble ⟨p. 96⟩Tongue, or any such things; because the least Grace is a pledge of Heaven, and so are none of all the rest.