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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 2: THE Second 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.
41 We should not so much consi•ler and love the things that do, as •he things that ought to please us, Matth. 19.8.
42 Jealousy between relations and friends is the Frenzy of wise-folks; the well-wishing spite; an unkind carefulness; the way to lose that which we most suspect and are unwilling to lose; the Self-Punishment for others faults; the Cousin of Envy; the Daughter of Love; and the Mother of Fear, if not of Hatred, Prov. 6.34.
42 Jealousie between relations and friends is the Phrensie of wise-folkes; the well-wishing spite; an unkind carefulness; the way to lose that which we most suspect and are unwilling to lose; the Self-Punishment for others faults; the Cousin of Envy; the Daughter of Love; and the Mother of Fear, if not of Hatred, Prov. 6.34.
43 It doth hugely oblige us to, and should as much endear our obedience to Jesus Christ, that he hath given •ife to us, who deserved death, yea and died for us, that we might live, 2 Cor. 5.14, 15.
43 It doth hugely oblige us to, and should as much indear our obedience to Jesus Christ, that he hath given ife to us, who deserved death, yea and died for us, that we might live,