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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.
22 No man errs more than he that saith he cannot err; as no man lies more, than he that saith he never lied. If we say we have no sin, we deceive (and yet confute) our selves, for we sin in saying so, 1 John 1.8. and do not only lye our selves, but make God a Liar, who is the Truth, and cannot lye, 1 John 1.10. So that they who pretend to infallibility and perfection, are (in not being so) a contradiction to God and themselves.
22 No man errs more than he that saith he cannot erre; as no man lyes more, than he that saith he never lyed. If we say we have no sin, we deceive (and yet confute) our selves, for we sin in saying so, 1 John 1.8. and do not only lye our selves, but make God a Lyar, who is the Truth, and cannot lye, 1 John 1.10. So that they who pretend to infallibility and perfection, are (in not being so) a contradiction to God and themselves.
23 They should hear the prayers of the poor, who would have God hear theirs, Psal. 41.1, 2. And as they should give to others, who would have God give to them; so they should forgive others, as they would God should forgive them, Math. 18.21, — 35. Math. 6.14, 15.