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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.
3. The less the sin, the less the inducement to commit it: What, shall I break with God for a trifle? destroy my peace, wound my Conscience, grieve the Spirit, and all this for nothing? Oh what madness is this?
Arg. 5. A fifth Argument is drawn from the Grace of God, and hopes of pardon: Come, God will pass by this as an infirmity, he will not be extreme to mark it.
Arg. 5. A fifth Argument is drawn from the Grace of God, and hopes of pardon: Come, God will pass by this as an infirmity, he will not be extream to mark it.
But stay my heart,
1. Where do I find a promise of mercy to presumptuous sinners? indeed for involuntary surprisals, unavoidable and lamented infirmities, there is a pardon of course, but where is the promise to a daring sinner, that sins upon a presumption of pardon? Pause a while my soul upon that Scripture, Numb. 15. 27, 30. And if a Soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a She-Goat, of the first year for a Sin-offering, &c. But the Soul that doth ought presumptuously, the same reproacheth the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.