A53689:286
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Zion. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648
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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.
EXPLIC. XI.
Back-sliding from the practise of any way of Christ, or use of any ordinances, taken up upon conviction of his Institution, is in no small degree an Apostasy from Christ himself.
BAck-sliding from the practise of any way of Christ, or use of any ordinances, taken up upon conviction of his Institution, is in no small degree an Apostacy from Christ himselfe.
Apostasy, in what degree soever, is attended with all that aggravation, which a renunciation of a tasted sweetness and goodness from God for transitory things, can lay ⟨p. 98⟩upon it; seldom it is that back-sliders are without pretences commonly of what they forsake; in respect of what they pretend to retain: they say, as Lot of Zoar, is it not a little one? But yet we see (without exception) that such things universally tend to more ungodliness: Every unrecovered step backward, from any way of Christ, maketh a discovery of falseness in the heart, what ever former pretences have been.
Apostacie, in what degree soever, is attended with all that aggravation, which a renuntiation of a tasted sweetnesse and goodnesse from God for transitory things, can lay ⟨p. 98⟩