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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.
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50 'Tis a known Maxim, that a Negative makes nothing known; for we know things by discovering not ⟨p. 17⟩what they are not, but what they are: and therefore to give only negative Characters of Christians, is not to describe them, nor can they only make them known to themselves or others: Hence throughout the Scripture, the Negative and the Affirmative are for the most part joined together, Rom. 12.2. 1 Pet. 1.14, 15. Eph. 4.17, — 25.
50 'Tis a known Maxime, that a Negative makes nothing known; for we know things by discovering not ⟨p. 17⟩what they are not, but what they are: and therefore to give only negative Characters of Christians, is not to describe them, nor can they only make them known to themselves or others: Hence throughout the Scripture, the Negative and the Affirmative are for the most part joyn'd together, Rom. 12.2. 1 Pet. 1.14, 15. Eph. 4.17, — 25.
51 God in Scripture compares his Church to an Espoused Wife, and himself to an Husband, yea to a Jealous Husband; how careful then must they be, who are married to such an husband, to abstain not only from all pollution, but from all suspicion of sin! 2 Cor. 11.2, 3.