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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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9. If thou wouldest keep thy head from erring, be sure to keep thy heart from erring, Psal: 95. 10. It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways, as thou desirest not to be a backslider in the profession of the true faith, be not a backslider in heart, Prov. 14. 14. If thou wouldest be preserved from erroneous opinions, pray for the mortification of thy corruptions, Gal. 5. 20. with 24.
9. If thou wouldest keep thy head from erring, bee sure to keep thy heart from erring, Psal: 95. 10. It is a people that do erre in their heart, and they have not known my wayes, as thou desirest not to be a backslider in the profession of the true faith, be not a backslider in heart, Prov. 14. 14. If thou wouldest be preserved from erroneous opinions, pray for the mortification of thy corruptions, Gal. 5. 20. with 24.
10. If thou wouldest be firm and stable in the truth, thou must not only have grace in the heart, but be established in grace, Heb▪ 13. 9. Be not carried about with diverse and strange Doctrines, for it is a good thing that the heart (he saith not have grace, but) be established [Greek or Hebrew] in grace, he that is not established in the present truth: i. e. in the truth of the times, proves himself (or otherwise makes himself) to be unstable in grace. If [Greek or Hebrew], be [Greek or Hebrew], if he that is no profane one; be yet an unstable one, what doth it profit? It is plainly intimated to us, 1 Pet: 5. 8. 9. that such as are not stead fast in the faith, do not resist Satan, but are devoured by him, and 2 Pet. 1. 12. The Apostle thinks it not enough that Christians be established in the present truth, if they be not also growing in grace, and making sure their calling and election, and adding one grace to another, wherefore, saith he, I will not be negligent, to put you always in remembrance of these things, (to wit, which belong to the establishing of the heart in grace)