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Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who…
Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who died July, 1669 : with a brief narrative of his life and death : also the manner of Gods dealings with him before and after his conversion : drawn up by his own hand and published / by James Janeway ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1669
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.
Min. Methinks you seem to speak much against these duties, and against holiness, as if they were not altogether necessary to be embraced, do you not?
Min. Methinks you seem to speak much against these duties, and against holiness, as if they were not altogether necessary to be imbraced, do you not?
Conv. Oh no (God forbid) I hope I shall never so far speak against them as to neglect them in the least, but this I have said, that I may not look upon them any further, than as they lead me to Christ, for truly I have found nothing in the world so much hindered me of comfort, (wilful sin only excepted) as in laying so great a stress upon duties, for certainly, had I laid my foundation sure upon the Rock of Christ, and not all upon my own righteousness, I should never have been so much shaken, and as I may say almost overturned with the assaults of sin and Satan, but he would have upheld me with his everlasting arms, that I should have been able long ago, to have triumphed in his merits, over all the assaults that Satan and my own heart made against me.
Conv. Oh no (God forbid) I hope I shall never so far speak against them as to neglect them in the least, but this I have said, that I may not look upon them any further, than as they lead me to Christ, for truly I have found nothing in the world so much hindered me of comfort, (wilfull sin only excepted) as in laying so great a stress upon duties, for certainly, had I laid my foundation sure upon the Rock of Christ, and not all upon my own righteousness, I should never have been so much shaken, and as I may say almost overturned with the assaults of sin and Satan, but he would have upheld me with his everlasting armes, that I should have been able long agoe, to have triumphed in his merits, over all the assaults that Satan and my own heart made against me.