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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.
38 'Tis clear and evident, that it cost the Apostles as much (if not more) pains to preserve them in the truth, whom they had converted, than it did to convert them at first; as by ⟨p. 12⟩their Epistles is apparent: and it is in it self as great an instance of the power of God, Psal. 110.3. compared with 1 Pet. 1.5. As wicked men need conversion, so converted ones need strengthening, Luke 22.32. and to be exhorted not to be high minded, but to fear, Rom. 11.20. and to take heed least they fall, 1 Cor. 10.12.
39 'Twas Sauls sad complaint, 1 Sam. 28.15. I am sorely distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me: So dolefully (and more) will sinners one day cry out, sickness, sin, death and devils are upon me, and God hath forsaken me, and I know not what to do. Oh forsake not God by sinning, least God forsake you for sinning against him, and his wrath come upon you, Eph. 5.6.
40 When God saw all that he had done to be very good, he entered into rest,