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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.
If you have got any good by them, if the reproaches and wrongs you have received, have m•de you search your hearts the more, watch your ways the more narrowly; if th••r wronging you have made you see how you have wronged God, then let me say for them as Paul did for himself, pray forgive them this wrong.
If you have got any good by them, if the reproaches and wrongs you have received, have m•de you search your hearts the more, wa•ch your ways the more narrowly; if th••r w•onging you have made you see how you have wronged God, then let me say for them as Paul did for himself, pray f•rgive them this wrong.
What can you not find an heart to forgive one that hath […] instrumental of so much good to you, tha• •s strange what though they meant it for evil, y•t if God have turned it to good: you have no more reason to rage against the instrument, ⟨p. 126⟩then he had who received a wound from his enemy which only brake and let out that impostume, which otherwise had been his death.
What can you not find an •eart to forgive one that hath 〈…〉 instrumental of so much good to you, tha• •s strange what though they meant it for evil, y•t if God have turned it to good: you have no more reason to rage against the instrument,