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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
THE LAW OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.THE LAVV OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.
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.
THE LAW OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.
THE LAVV OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.
Rom. 7. 23. But I see another Law in my members warring against the law of my mind and leading me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
That which is to be done for the solemnity of this day, ‖(which hath been most profitable, and necessarily set a part by the Church, for the remembrance of our deliverance from the Gun-powder Treason) I leave it to be performed by another. We have now pitched upon a text which will serve for our particular use. This day indeed puts us in mind ⟨p. 350⟩of a great Treason, which was intended against the whole State, both of Church and Common-wealth; and this will put us in mind of a Treason within us. Now it is true, that these outward Treasons, and when we hear of Wars and rumours of Wars, such things as are terrible to us, every man is ready to be affected & affrighted with things of this nature, change of state, loss of goods, abreption of life, these things are naturally terrible to us, the very hearing of them. But this now is a War within, which is much more dangerous, and concerns every one of us to be affected with a thousand times more, for it is a deadly War, a War that devours the soul; the other destroys only the body, this is a War which kills us with an everlasting death, when as the other is only the loss of a temporal life. And this is a War which is for the most part forgotten, and not minded; for it is a fight that makes no noise, it comes not with the sound of drums and trumpets, it carrieth along with it no terrible appearance, hence it is that we think of it but little. Now what do we serve for, that are the watch-men of your souls, but to stir you up to a mindfulness of this War? to sound an alarm to you, and if you will be stirred up to work your deliverance, well, if not, we have delivered our own souls, and he that perisheth, his blood shall be upon his own head.