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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.
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. Heb. 13. 5.
4. Quer. Think you the Lord cares not to break his childrens 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. Heb. 13. 5.
Well then, from Gods carriage towards you either in affliction or desertion, no such discouraging, heart sinking conclusions can be inferred. Next let us see whether they may not be inferred from our carriage towards God: and here the principal grounds of doubting are such as these.
Well then, from Gods carriage towards you either in •ffliction or desertion, no such discouraging, heart sinking conclusions can be inferr'd. Next let us see whether they may not be inferr'd from our carriage towards God: and here the principal grounds of doubting are such as these.
1. I have fallen again into the same sin from which I have formerly risen with repentance and resolution, therefore my sinning is customary sinning, a spot that is not the spot of Gods children: hence the upright Soul trembles, upon this tis ready to affirm that all its former humiliations for, and oppositions unto sin, were but acts of hypocrisy. But stay poor trembling heart.