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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.
There is a second thing, and that is to see (on the other side) all fullness in God, to see in him all excellency and beauty, and all goodness, and all power and strength, and out of that to magnify him, to extol him in your hearts, to set him high as he is God, to love him above all. In a word, to look upon him as being all in all things, to answer our being nothing in every thing. These two must concur together to make up godliness, to enable us to exalt God as God in our hearts, to be fully convinced that there is nothing but emptiness in our selves, and withal to see all fullness in God; for so long as a man sees any thing in himself, so long as he thinks that there is either excellency in himself, or strength and power in him, so long he will lean upon himself, and trust himself, ⟨p. 238⟩and proportionably, he will draw his heart from the Lord. And again on the other side, in what measure a man sees an emptiness in himself, and a fullness in God, in that measure he will withdraw his heart from himself, and every creature, and pitch it upon the Lord. By this time then you see what this godliness is which is here commended to us.
There is a second thing, and that is to see (on the other side) all fulnesse in God, to see in him all excellency and beauty, and all goodnesse, and all power and strength, and out of that to magnifie him, to extoll him in your hearts, to set him high as he is God, to love him above all. In a word, to look upon him as being all in all things, to answer our being nothing in every thing. These two must concur together to make up godlinesse, to enable us to exalt God as God in our hearts, to be fully convinced that there is nothing but emptinesse in our selves, and withall to see all fulness in God; for so long as a man sees any thing in himself, so long as he thinks that there is either excellency in himself, or strength and power in him, so long he will lean upon himself, and trust himself, ⟨p. 238⟩and proportionably, he will draw his heart from the Lord. And again on the other side, in what measure a man sees an emptiness in himself, and a fulnesse in God, in that measure he will withdraw his heart from himself, and every creature, and pitch it upon the Lord. By this time then you see what this godliness is which is here commended to us.