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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.
64 Many people fear sin, who do not hate it, as some do a Lion: Wicked men may fear it, because 'twill tha•e them and damn them; but good men fear it, because 'twill dishonour God, and defile them. The burnt-child dreads the fire, because 'twill burn, others the very coal, because 'twill black them, Gen. 39.9. Matth. 15.18, 19, 20.
65 In all ages, God either preserved his people from, or supported them under, or delivered them out of temptations and afflictions, 2 Pet. 2.9.
66 When any person goes to hear a Sermon, 'tis much (whoever he be) if he learn not something he knew not before; or have something called to remembrance, which he had forgotten; or be put in mind of something which he had not practised, at least not so fully and well as he ought; or be not confirmed in what he hath believed, Phil. 3.1. 2 Pet. 1.12. 2 Tim. 3.16, 17. Matth. 13.52.
66 When any person goes to hear a Sermon, 'tis much (whoever he be) if he learn not something he knew not before; or have something called to remembrance, which he had forgotten; or be put in mind of something which he had not practis'd, at least not so fully and well as he ought; or be not confirm'd in what he hath believed,