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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.
Now we have told you that you are to labour for faith, and love, and good works, which we have already finished.
Now we have told you that you are to labor for faith, and love, and good works, which we have already finished.
But men are apt to have a form, a show, and appearance of all this, whenas they have not the life and power. ⟨p. 232⟩Therefore that you may not be deceived, we have thought good to add this to all the rest, take heed how you content your selves in having a form of godliness only, without the power of it.
But men are apt to have a form, a shew, and appearance of all this, whenas they have not the life and power. ⟨p. 232⟩Therefore that you may not be deceived, we have thought good to add this to all the rest, take heed how you content your selves in having a form of godlinesse onely, without the power of it.
The Apostle in this place as you may see intends to describe the diseases of the latter times, which are the times into which we are fallen. And you may see in the former part of the Chapter how many the diseases of the soul are: so that the diseases of the body, as many as they are, do hardly exceed the diseases of the inward man. He tells them that in the latter times there should be men that should be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God. And then he puts this as the last of all, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.