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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.
Whereas true godliness, empties a man of himself, and teacheth him to seek God, and to magnify him in all 1things, to look at him in all things. For you must know that godliness is a grace, not begotten by nature, nor acquired by practise, but infused by God which doth habituate the soul, and all the faculties of it to turn to and fro, as the will of God shall direct it, and that for his sake. And it doth it after this manner.
Whereas true godliness, empties a man of himself, and teacheth him to seek God, and to magnifie him in all 1things, to look at him in all things. For you must know that godliness is a grace, not begotten by nature, nor acquired by practise, but infused by God which doth habituate the soul, and all the faculties of it to turn to and fro, as the will of God shall direct it, and that for his sake. And it doth it after this manner.
- 1Godliness what.
First, it takes a man off from his own bottom, and makes a man see that there is nothing in himself. Again, it pitcheth a man upon a higher end then nature can reach unto. And when it hath done these two, the third will easily follow, it makes a man follow God, and seek God in all things, for you must know that so long as a man depends upon himself, so long as he is bottomed upon himself, so long as he seeks his happiness within himself, so long he will look to himself, and no further. Therefore for a man to look to God altogether, he must first be taken off from himself, and he must be pitched upon God.