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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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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.
52 There is a natural over-charitable affection in most men to their own ways, Prov. 16.2. and 21.2. and (which yet seems strange) the worse they are, the more men are inclined to favour them; but the reason is, because the worse they are, the more they are their own: for mens sins are not so ⟨p. 18⟩much from the Devil as from themselves, and though he may tempt, yet 'tis they that sin, James 1.14.
52 There is a natural over-charitable affection in most men to their own ways, Prov. 16.2. and 21.2. and (which yet seems strange) the worse they are, the more men are inclin'd to favour them; but the reason is, because the worse they are, the more they are their own: for mens sins are not so ⟨p. 18⟩much from the Devil as from themselves, and though he may tempt, yet 'tis they that sin, James 1.14.