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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.
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.
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 hypocrisie. But stay poor trembling heart.
1. Quer. If this be so, how comes it to pass that Christ put such a favourable construction upon the Disciples sleeping the third time, when he had as often reproved them for it? Ma••h. 26. 40, 41. And how is it that we find in Scripture so many promises made not only to the first sins, but also to the backslidings of Gods people, Jer. 3. 22. Hose. 14. 4.
1. Quer. If this be so, how comes it to pass that Christ put such a favourable construction upon the Disciples sleeping the third time, when he had as often reproved them for it? Ma••h. 26. 40, 41. And how is it that we find in Scripture so many promises made not only to the first sins, but also to the backslidings of Gods people, Ier. 3. 22. Hose. 14. 4.