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A Saint Indeed
A saint indeed: or The great work of a Christian, opened and pressed; from Prov. 4. 23 Being a seasonable and proper expedient for the recovery of the much decayed power of godliness, among the professors of these times. By John Flavell M. of the Gospel.
London: printed by W.R., 1668
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.
Answ. If Jacobs God be your God, you have as good an interest in them as he had. The Church a thousand years after that transaction betwixt God and Jacob, applied that which God spake to him, as if it had been spoken to themselves, Hos. 12. 1. He found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.
Answ. If Iacobs God be your God, you have as good an interest in them as he had. The Church a thousand years after that transaction betwixt God and Iacob, applyed that which God spake to him, as if it had been spoken to themselves, Hos. 12. 1. He found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.
7. Rule. Quiet your trembling hearts by recording and consulting your past experiences of the care and faithfulness of God in former distresses.
These experiences are food for your Faith in a wilderness condition, Psal. 74. 14. By this David kept his hea•t in time of danger, I Sam. 17. 37. and Paul his, 2. Cor. 1. 10. It was sweetly answered by Silentiarius, when one told him, that his enemies way-laid him to take away his life, Si Deus mei curam non habet, quid vivo? if God take no care of me, how have I escaped hitherto? you may plead with God old experiences to procure new ones, for it is in pleading with God for new deliverances, as it is in pleading for new pardons. Now mark how Moses pleads on that account with God,