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The almost Christian discovered, in some sermons on Acts 26, 28 with a blow…
The almost Christian discovered, in some sermons on Acts 26, 28 with a blow at profaneness / by the R.R. Ezekiel Hopkins, late Lord Bishop of London-Derry ; to which is added the upright Christian discovered, gathered out of the judicious treatises of William Bates, D.D.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1693
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.
Are you ignorant? Many are the helps that God hath provided you. Are you encumbered with your Worldly Affairs? The weightier they are, the more need you have to ask Counsel and Direction of God. Are you bashful and modest? Alas, be ashamed to sin, be ashamed to talk loosely, be ashamed to neglect thy Duty before thy Family; but be not ashamed to pray, and do thy Duty. Our Saviour hath told us, Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and […] my words, in this adulterous and sinful Generation, ⟨p. 129⟩of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father, with the Holy Angels, Mark 8.38. What will become of them who are ashamed of their Duty?
Are you ignorant? Many are the helps that God hath provided you. Are you incumbred with your Worldly Affairs? The weightier they are, the more need you have to ask Counsel and Direction of God. Are you bashful and modest? Alas, be ashamed to sin, be ashamed to talk loosly, be ashamed to neglect thy Duty before thy Family; but be not ashamed to pray, and do thy Duty. Our Saviour hath told us, Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and 〈…〉 my words, in this adulterous and sinful Generation, ⟨p. 129⟩of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father, with the Holy Angels, Mark 8.38. What will become of them who are ashamed of their Duty?
Fourthly, He is a profane Person that performs Holy Duties slightly and superficially. Our whole Hearts must go into our Holy Duties. And the strength and vigour of our Spirits must diffuse themselves into every part of them, to animate and quicken them.
Fourthly, He is a profane Person that performs Holy Duties slightly and superficially. Our whole Hearts must go into our Holy Duties. And the strength and vigor of our Spirits must diffuse themselves into every part of them, to animate and quicken them.