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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.
Righteousness is a Breast-plate, the Cause of God will pay all your expenses▪ let them tremble whom danger finds out of the way of Duty.
Righteousness is a Breast-plate, the Cause of God will pay all your expences▪ let them tremble whom danger finds out of the way of Duty.
9. Rule. Get your consciences sprinkled with the blood of Christ from all guilt, and that will set your hearts above all fear.
'Tis guilt upon the conscience that softens and cowardizes our spirits: The righteous is bold as a Lion, Prov. 28. 1. 'T was guilt in Cains Conscience that made him cry, every one that meets me will stay me, Gen. 4. 14. A guilty Conscience is more terrified with conceited dangers, than • pure Conscience is with real ones. A guilty sinner carries a witness against himself in his own bosom. 'T was guilty Herod cried out, John Baptist is rise• ⟨p. 83⟩from the dead. Such a conscience is the Devils Anvil, on which he fabricates all those Swords and Spears with which the guilty sinner pierces and wounds himself. Guilt is to danger, what fire is to Gun-powder; a man •eed not fear to walk among many barrels of Powder if he have no fire about him.