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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.
It is true, this form is good, his meaning is not to reject that; for wheresoever there is the power of godliness there is also the form; that you must take for granted, it is impossible that they should be disjoined. Wheresoever there is true gold, there will be a yellowness, there will be all the qualities of gold: though many times you have counterfeit pieces, that carry the colour having not the ⟨p. 233⟩true qualities of the metal. So here the Apostles intent is not to reject the form: but all the scope of the Apostle, and the main matter which he drives at is, that men should not have the form without the power, and life, having a form of godliness, but have denied the power thereof.
It is true, this form is good, his meaning is not to reject that; for wheresoever there is the power of godliness there is also the form; that you must take for granted, it is impossible that they should be disjoyned. Wheresoever there is true gold, there will be a yellownesse, there will be all the qualities of gold: though many times you have counterfeit pieces, that carry the colour having not the ⟨p. 233⟩true qualities of the mettal. So here the Apostles intent is not to reject the form: but all the scope of the Apostle, and the main matter which he drives at is, that men should not have the form without the power, and life, having a form of godliness, but have denyed the power thereof.
The first point that we will commend to you out of these words (for you see they need not much explication, they are very plain) it is this, (before we come to that which is the main) that
It is Godliness which is required by God, and that is only