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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
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.
A second impediment that keeps men from seeking this ⟨p. 169⟩faith is a conceit that it is impossible ever to get it, and this sticks too much in our unbelieving hearts, and is strongly rooted in our ignorant Protestants, that give themselves to other Books, but not to the careful and conscionable reading of Gods Book, where there is nothing so beaten upon, both in Old and New Testament, as that we should trust in God, and not upon our selves; and that this which belongs to every child of God that shall be saved is no conceit of impossibility; but this faith belongs to every child of God, therefore not impossible to be attained; and this is plainly proved, Gal. 3. 26. where it is said, Ye are all the Sons of God by faith; there is none the Son of God but by believing in the Son of God; and Act. 13. 40. So many as were ordained to eternal life believed: which shows, that all such shall have this faith, that is, a true and a saving faith, not the counterfeit faith of the world; for it is a gift common to all Gods children, without which a man cannot be a Son of God.
A second impediment that keeps men from seeking this ⟨p. 169⟩faith is a conceit that it is impossible ever to get it, and this sticks too much in our unbelieving hearts, and is strongly rooted in our ignorant Protestants, that give themselves to other Books, but not to the careful and conscionable reading of Gods Book, where there is nothing so beaten upon, both in Old and New Testament, as that we should trust in God, and not upon our selves; and that this which belongs to every child of God that shall be saved is no conceit of impossibility; but this faith belongs to every child of God, therefore not impossible to be attained; and this is plainly proved, Gal. 3. 26. where it is said, Ye are all the Sons of God by faith; there is none the Son of God but by believing in the Son of God; and Act. 13. 40. So many as were ordained to eternal life believed: which shews, that all such shall have this faith, that is, a true and a saving faith, not the counterfeit faith of the world; for it is a gift common to all Gods children, without which a man cannot be a Son of God.