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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.
Now the last is, that it leads us captive, and that it ⟨p. 359⟩1doth so, you shall see from these particulars.
- 14. It leads us captive.
You know, one part of captivity or bondage, is for a man to be detained in a strange Country, to be kept in prison, to be kept from his friends, and from his business and employment at home. So doth this Law in our members, it detains us in our own Country, it keeps us from God, from the things that are heavenly, where our conversation ought to be continually: it keeps us in prison, it with-holds us from those that are our proper companions.
You know, one part of captivity or bondage, is for a man to be detained in a strange Country, to be kept in prison, to be kept from his friends, and from his business and employment at home. So doth this Law in our members, it detains us in our own Country, it keeps us from God, from the things that are heavenly, where our coversation ought to be continually: it keeps us in prison, it with-holds us from those that are our proper companions.
And then again, you see in bondage there is no rest given to those that are slaves, so this Law in our members, it breedeth a restlessness, it gives us no leave to eat, or drink, or sleep: that is, it so hurries the souls of men to and fro, it so occupies the thoughts, it so takes up a mans affections, that he is still busied in doing the things it commands, There is no rest saith my God to the wicked.