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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 quickening to this Duty is very forcible and weighty, For out of it are the issues of life. That is, it is the Source and Fountain of all vital actions and operations; Hinc Fons boni & peccandi or go, saith Jerome; it is the Spring and Original both of good and evil-as the spring in a Watch that sets all the Wheels in motion. The Heart is the Treasury, the Hand and Tongue but ⟨p. 5⟩the Shops, what is in these came from thence; the hand and tongue always begins where the heart ends. The heart contrives, and the members execute, Luke 6. 46. A good man out of the good treasury of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasury of his heart bringeth forth evil things; for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh. So then, if the heart err in its work, these must needs miscarry in theirs; for heart-errors are like the errors of the first concoction which cannot be rectified afterwards: Or like the mis-placing and inverting of the stamps and letters in the Press, which must needs cause so many errata's in all the Copies that are printed off. O then! how important a Duty is that which is contained in the following Proposition?
2. The Reason or Motive quickning to this Duty is very forcible and weighty, For out of it are the issues of life. That is, it is the Source and Fountain of all vital actions and operations; Hinc Fons boni & peccandi or go, saith Ierom; it is the Spring and Original both of good and evil-as the spring in a Watch that sets all the Wheels in motion. The Heart is the Treasury, the Hand and Tongue but ⟨p. 5⟩the Shops, what is in these came from thense; the hand and tongue alwaies begins where the heart ends. The heart contrives, and the members execute, Luke 6. 46. A good man out of the good treasury of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasury of his heart bringeth forth evil things; for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh. So then, if the heart erre in its work, these must needs miscarry in theirs; for heart-errors are like the errors of the first concoction which cannot be rectified afterwards: Or like the mis-placing and inverting of the stamps and letters in the Press, which must needs cause so many errata's in all the Copies that are printed off. O then! how important a Duty is that which is contained in the following Proposition?