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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. Quer. Is sense and feeling a competent judge of Gods actions and designs. Or may a man safely rely upon its testimony ⟨p. 154⟩after so many discoveries of the fallibility of it? is this a sound argument? if God had any love for my Soul, if it were not quite gone, I should feel it now as well as in former times; but I cannot feel it, therefore its quite gone. Do not you know the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and close weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the love of God? read Isai. 50. 10. may I not as well conclude in winter when the flowers have hid their beautiful heads under ground, they are quite dead and gone, because I cannot find them in December, where I saw them in May?
3. Quer. Is sence and feeling a competent judge of Gods actions and designs. Or may a man safely rely upon its testimony ⟨p. 154⟩after so many discoveries of the fallibility of it? is this a sound argument? if God had any love for my Soul, if it were not quite gone, I should feel it now as well as in former times; but I cannot feel it, therefore its quite gone. Do not you know the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and closs weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the love of God? read Isai. 50. 10. may I not as well conclude in winter when the flowers have hid their beautiful heads under ground, they are quite dead and gone, because I cannot find them in December, where I saw them in May?
4. Quer. Think you the Lord cares not to break his children's hearts, and his own promise too? hath he no more regard to either? if he return no more, these must be the consequents, Isai. 57. 16, 17