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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.
54 Many mens senses engross the men, as if they had no souls to mind, or had souls only to mind their bodies: Their bodies are daintily fed, and richly clad; They have Gentlemen bodies, and (too often) slaves minds: and of such men (one saith) all is good but the man, Luke 16.19, &c.
54 Many mens senses ingross the men, as if they had no souls to mind, or had souls only to mind their bodies: Their bodies are daintily fed, and richly clad; They have Gentlemen• bodies, and (too often) slaves minds: and of such men (one saith) all is good but the man, Luke 16.19, &c.
55 Terrors that are caused and exalted by a guilty conscience, are the most intolerable and incurable of any other, Prov. 18.14.
55 Terrors that are caused and exalted by a guilty conscience, are the most intollerable and incurable of any other, Prov. 18.14.
56 Body and Soul are so united and do so sympathize, that they are refreshed or pained together: the body never sends the stomach to tell us we ⟨p. 55⟩have eaten too much, but the foul feels it too; for when the stomach riseth against the meat, the conscience riseth against intemperance; and as the one feels the meat, the other doth the sin of surfeiting. Let the Palate and Belly-pleasers read