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The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…
The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism ... / by Giles Firmin ...The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1670
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.
When God gave commandment to Israel, to appoint three Cities of Refuge, Deut. 19 2. He gave another Commandment to them, v. 3. To prepare the way to those Cities: Upon which Commandment the Magistrates of Israel, every year, on the fifteenth day of the month Adar [or February] sent out Messengers to prepare the ways to the Cities of Refuge, to make them fit and broad, remove out of them all stumbling blocks and offences; they suffered not any Hill or Dale to be in the way, nor water-streams, but they made a bridge over it, that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. At the partition of ways they set up in writing, Refuge, Refuge, 1that the man-slayer might know and turn thitherward. If any man met the man-slayer, he was not to hinder him; but two or three of their wise men were to be upon the way, that if they did meet with the Avenger of blood, they might by lenitive words endeavour the appeasing of his wrath, and not fall upon the man-slayer, till the case were judicially heard.
WHen God gave commandment to Israel, to appoint three Cities of Refuge, Deut. 19 2. He gave another Commandment to them, v. 3. To prepare the way to those Cities: Upon which Commandment the Magistrates of Israel, every year, on the fifteenth day of the month Adar [or February] sent out Messengers to prepare the wayes to the Cities of Refuge, to make them fit and broad, remove out of them all stumbling blocks and offences; they suffered not any Hill or Dale to be in the way, nor water-streams, but they made a bridge over it, that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. At the partition of wayes they set up in writing, Refuge, Refuge, 1that the man-slayer might know and turn thitherward. If any man met the man-slayer, he was not to hinder him; but two or three of their wise men were to be upon the way, that if they did meet with the Avenger of blood, they might by lenitive words endeavour the appeasing of his wrath, and not fall upon the man-slayer, till the case were judicially heard.
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