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Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences,…
Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made public: together with a sermon entitled The beauty of holiness / by Ralph Venning ...Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...
London: printed for Robert Duncombe, 1664
THINGS Worth thinking on; OR, HELPS to PIETY. › Century 1: I. Century.
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.
90 Our Saviour hath reduced the Ten Commandments to Two, viz. The love of God and our Neighbour; and 'tis great pity these Two Commands (like the Two Tables) should be broken one against another! 'Tis to be feared that he who is false to the second, is not true to the first Command: For he that observes not the second, which is like the first, is not like to observe, nay it may be, doth ⟨p. 33⟩not at all like the first, 1 John 4.20. He that is but a Publican as to the second, is but a Pharisee as to the first Table: and though 'tis not good to be a Heathen, yet of the two, 'twere better to be a just Heathen, which is possible, than to be an unjust Christian, which (saving the Name) is a contradiction, Rom. 2.13. to 29. Matth. 11.24.
90 Our Saviour hath reduced the Ten Commandements to Two, viz. The love of God and our Neighbour; and 'tis great pity these Two Commands (like the Two Tables) should be broken one against another! 'Tis to be fear'd that he who is false to the second, is not true to the first Command: For he that observes not the second, which is like the first, is not like to observe, nay it may be, doth ⟨p. 33⟩not at all like the first, 1 John 4.20. He that is but a Publican as to the second, is but a Pharisee as to the first Table: and though 'tis not good to be a Heathen, yet of the two, 'twere better to be a just Heathen, which is possible, than to be an unjust Christian, which (saving the Name) is a contradiction, Rom. 2.13. to 29. Matth. 11.24.