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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.
2. Means. Be often sweetening your spirits in communion with God, and they will not easily be embittered with wrath towards men.
2. Means. Be often sweetning your spirits in communion with God, and they will not easily be imbittered with wrath towards men.
A quiet Conscience never produced an unquiet conversation: the peace of God doth [Greek or Hebrew] rule in the heart, as an Umpire in appeasing strifes, for so much that word, Col. 3. 15. imports, wrath and strife are hugely opposite to the frame and temper of a spiritual heart, because inconsistent with the delight and contentment of that Dove-like spirit, which loves a sedate and quiet breast. O saith a Soul that feeds upon the sweet Communion of the Spirit, shall the sparkles of provocations now catch in my passions, and raise such a smoke in my Soul as will offend and drive away the comforter from me? this is so effectual a remedy against passion, that I durst almost venture in a Christian of an hasty nature to make long suffering a sign of Communion with God. Seest thou such a Christian quiet and calm under provocations, ⟨p. 134⟩'tis very like his soul feeds upon such sweetness in God as he is loath to leave: and on the other side, seest thou a Christian turbulent and clamorous, doubtless all is not well within: his Spirit is like a bone out of joint, which cannot move without pain and trouble.
A q•iet Conscience never produced an unquiet conversation: the peace of God doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 rule in the heart, as an Umpire in appeasing strifes, for so much that word, Col. 3. 15. imports, wrath and strife are hugely opposite to the frame and temper of a spiritual heart, because inconsistent with the delight and contentment of that Dove-like spirit, which loves a sedate and quiet breast. O saith a Soul that feeds upon the sweet Communion of the Spirit, shall the sprkles of provocations now catch in my passions, and raise such a smoke in my Soul as will offend and drive away the comforter from me? this is so effectual a remedy against passion, that I durst almost venture in a Christian of an hasty nature to make long suffering a sign of Communion with God. Seest thou such a Christian quiet and calm under provocations,