A54381:1336
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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. By feeling our wants, and by bewailing, in the bitterness of our hearts, our offending of God by our sins.
2. By our continual striving against the flesh, by our resisting and hating the godly motions thereof, and if with grief we do think them burdenous and troublesome.
2. By our continual striving against the flesh, by our resisting and hating the godly motions thereof, and if with grief we do think them burthenous and troublesom.
3. By an earnest and fervent desire ⟨p. 200⟩of the grace of God, and of the merit of Christ, that thereby we may obtain eternal life.
4. By a true esteem of it when we have obtained it, even as a most precious Jewel, Phil. 3. 8.