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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 3: THE Third 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.
16 He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep, Psal. 121.4. And how safely and quietly may they sleep, for whom God is pleased to wake and watch? Psal. 4.8. & 3.5. Prov. 3.24.
16 He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep, Psal. 121.4. And how safely and quictly may they sleep, for whom God is pleas'd to wake and watch? Psal. 4.8. & 3.5. Prov. 3.24.
17 Will-worship and Will-suffering are both bad; as is clear from Col. 2.23. 1 Cor. 13.3.
18 'Tis no cure of Passion to delay it: For that which Athenodorus prescribed to Augustus, to repeat the Alphabet between passion and revenge, is but boyish and slight, as diverting the mind to a trifle; which is only to cozen, and not to conquer the distemper: 'Tis like the cure of Empirics, which may allay, not free a disease: 'tis best to pluck it up by the Roots; and how that's done, see