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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. The Reason or Motive enforcing it, For out of it are the issues of Life.
2. The Reason or Motive inforcing it, For out of it are the issues of Life.
In the Exhortation I shall Consider,
1. The Matter of the Duty.
2. The manner of performing it.
1. The Matter of the Duty; Keep thy Heart. Heart is not here taken properly for that noble part of the Body which Philosophers call the primum vivens, & ultimum moriens; the first that lives, and the last that dies; but by Heart in a Metaphor, the Scripture sometimes understands some particular noble faculty of the Soul, in Rom. 1. 21. it is put for the understanding part, their foolish Heart (i. e.) their foolish understanding was darkened. And