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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.
47 A seared conscience, an hardened heart, a being given up, is a kind of fore-runner and earnest of, yea as it were a sealing up of men to damnation; for whereas the damned are in hell, hell is in these: and would any think madness or the dead Palsy to be best, because such men feel nothing, having lost their senses by their disease, which is a greater punishment than any other, it being that of loss, Rom. 1.28. Eph. 4.18, 19. 2 Thess. 2.11, 12. 1 Tim. 4.1, 2.
47 A seared conscience, an hardned heart, a being given up, is a kind of fore-runner and earnest of, yea as it were a sealing up of men to damnation; for whereas the damned are in hell, hell is in these: and would any think madness or the dead Palsie to be best, because such men feel nothing, having lost their senses by their disease, which is a greater punishment than any other, it being that of loss, Rom. 1.28. Eph. 4.18, 19. 2 Thess. 2.11, 12. 1 Tim. 4.1, 2.
48 There is a necessity of disproportion and disparity between me• and men; for were all persons equal• the world could not consist; Superiority and Inferiority are the Pillan thereof; and therefore, we are so oftener called upon to obey them that are over us, and that not for wrath sake, but for conscience,