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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.
76 Some persons make so bold with none as with God, for whom we should have the greatest reverence: and they who dare not take a mans name in vain, nor give him the lie, yet dare to blaspheme the Name of God, and make him a Liar, Luke 22.65. 1 John 1.10.
77 Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which 'tis more easy to keep ones self from falling, than being fallen, to give ones self any stay from falling infinitely: Take heed then of the first motions and beginnings of evil, for then sin is weakest, and we are strongest; but if we give way to and gratify it, sin grows upon us; that gets and we lose strength, Prov. 23.27. and 3.18, 19. and 7.25, 26, 27. and 9.18. and 5.3, —14. Eph. 4.19. Therefore 'tis said to us, Enter not into the way of the ⟨p. 26⟩wicked, no not enter, not put a foot forward, Prov. 4.14. much less go; but as v. 15. 1. Avoid it; 2. Pass not by it; 3. Turn from it; 4. And Pass away. We cannot stand at too great a distance from sin, Psal. 1.1.
77 Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which 'tis more easie to keep ones self from falling, than being fallen, to give ones self any stay from falling infinitely: Take heed then of the first motions and beginnings of evil, for then sin is weakest, and we are strongest; but if we give way to and gratifie it, sin grows upon us; that gets and we lose strength,