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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.
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
You see that lieth in the front of the text, and first offereth it self to our view. For when the question is about the form, and the power of godliness, it must needs be taken for granted, that godliness is a thing required by God of every man. The very light of nature will teach a man so much that, there must be godliness. Now when we come to consider what this godliness is, then there comes in a second consideration, not a form of it, but the power. So we will begin with that first, that godliness is here required of every man. It is godliness which is not in the form but in the power.