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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. Mot. The study and observation of your own hearts will antidote you against the dangerous and infecting errors of the times and places you live in.
2. Mot. The study and observation of your own hearts will antidote you against the dangerous and infecting errours of the times and places you live in.
For what think you is the reason that so many professors in England have departed from the faith, giving heed to •ables: that so many thousands have ⟨p. 194⟩been led away by the error of the wicked, that Jesuits and Quakers who have sown corrupt doctrine, have had such plentiful harvests among us, but because they have met with a company of empty notional pro•essors that never knew what belongs to practical godliness, and the study of their own hearts.
For what think you is the reason that so many professors in England have departed from the faith, giving heed to •ables: that so many thousands have ⟨p. 194⟩been led away by the errour of the wicked, that Jesuits and Quakers who have sown corrupt doctrine, have had such plentiful harvests among us, but because they have met with a company of empty notional pro•essors that never knew what belongs to practical godliness, and the study of their own hearts.
If professors did but give diligence to study, search, and watch their own hearts, they would have that [Greek or Hebrew] that steadfastness of their own that Peter speaks of