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The Christians great interest
The Christians great interest: or A short treatise, divided into two parts the first whereof containeth, the trial of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly, the way how to attain it: wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. By W. Guthrie, minister of the gospel in Scotland.The Christians great interest: or A short treatise, divided into two parts the first whereof containeth, the tryal of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly, the way how to attain it: wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. By W. Guthrie, minister of the gospel in Scotland.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1681
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.
Object. My sins have some aggravating circumstances beyond the same sins in other persons, which do much terrify me.
Object. My sins have some aggravating circumstances beyond the same sins in other persons, which do much terrifie me.
Answ. What can the aggravations of thy sins be, which are not paralleled in the fore-cited examples▪ Is thy sin against Great Light? So behooved many of these we spake of before. Was it against singular mercies and deliverances? So was that of Lot and Noah's drunkenness. Was thy sin done with much deliberation? So was Davids whilst he wrote the letter against Uriah. Was it against, or after any singular manifestation of God? So was Solomons. Was it by a small and despicable tentation? So was that of Jonah, and of Peter, if we consider the heinousness of their transgression. Hast thou rei•rated the sin, and committed it over again? So did Lot, so did Peter, so did Jehoshaphat in joining with Ahab ⟨p. 98⟩and Jehoram; 1 Kings 22. 2 Kings 3. Are there many gross sins concurring together in thee? So were there in Manasseh. Hast thou stood long out in Rebellion? (that, as all the former, is thy shame: but) so did the thief on the Cross, he stood it out to the last gasp, Luke 23. 42. If yet thou hast an ear to hear, thou art commanded to hear, Mat. 13. 19. Although thou hast long spent thy money for that which is not bread; Isa. 55. 1. 2. Thou hast the greater need now to haste, and to flee for refuge; and if thou do so, he shall welcome thee, and in no ways cast thee out,