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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.
And withal consider, when thou feest thy need (for therefore we do not prize Christ, because we know him not, and we know him not, because we know not our selves; how impotent and weak we are without him, we are able to do nothing without him. I say when we have considered what our need is of him, then let us consider the virtues of our Husband, and the portion we have with him.
And withal consider, when thou feest thy need (for therfore we do not prize Christ, because we know him not, and we know him not, because we know not our selves; how impotent and weak we are without him, we are able to do nothing without him. I say when we have considered what our need is of him, then let us consider the vertues of our Husband, and the portion we have with him.
Consider the virtues of our Husband; we are all too short in this: consider the excellency that is in Christ, the beauty that is in him, to draw us near to him. Thou must look on him as one full of beauty, the fairest of ten thousand, as we do with men that we converse with: if it be a man that hath worth in him, that you daily converse with, now you see one excellency, and then another, now one spark appears, and then another; so ⟨p. 211⟩learn to know Christ by experience continually.
Consider the vertues of our Husband; we are all too short in this: consider the excellency that is in Christ, the beauty that is in him, to draw us near to him. Thou must look on him as one full of beauty, the fairest of ten thousand, as we do with men that we converse with: if it be a man that hath worth in him, that you daily converse with, now you see one excellency, and then another, now one spark appears, and then another; so ⟨p. 211⟩learn to know Christ by experience continually.