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The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven
The zealous Christian taking heaven by holy violence in several sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed by R. and W. Leybourn for John Rothwell, 1653
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.
1. In case thine affections are more stirred up, for the removal of affliction upon thee, then corruption within thee. As it was with the Mariners in Jonah, they cried mightily unto God, but what was it for? not that they might be delivered from their sins and corruptions, but that God would bring them safe out of that tempest wherein they were.
1. In case thine affections are more stirred up, for the removall of affliction upon thee, then corruption within thee. As it was with the Mariners in Jonah, they cried mightily unto God, but what was it for? not that they might be delivered from their sins and corruptions, but that God would bring them safe out of that tempest wherein they were.
2. In case thine affections be kindled by a false Principle, as by popular applause, or vain glory, and not by the Spirit of God.
2. In case thine affections be kindled by a false Principle, as by popular applause, or vaine glory, and not by the Spirit of God.
3. In case thy affections are more drawn out after pardoning mercy, then subduing grace. A man whose conscience is awakened, may be so far roused with the fear of hell, that he may be very earnest to have sin pardoned, out of a mere principle of self-love.
3. In case thy affections are more drawn out after pardoning mercy, then subduing grace. A man whose conscience is awakened, may be so far rouzed with the feare of hell, that he may be very earnest to have sin pardoned, out of a meere principle of selfe-love.