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A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered…
A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London / Ralph Venning.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for John Rothwel, 1654
A WARNING TO BACKSLIDERS, OR A Discovery for the Recovery of Fallen… › The first is this,
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.
4. If backsliders do not remember, and repent, and reform, their doom will be sad at the coming of Christ. He will come, but to their cost and torment, for he will take away their candlestick, and cast them into outer darkness; Else I will come, &c.
4. If backsliders do not remember, and repent, and reforme, their doom will be sad at the coming of Christ. He will come, but to their cost and torment, for he will take away their candlestick, and cast them into outer darknesse; Else I will come, &c.
The first of these four is the Proposition which I shall speak unto, viz. That for a people to remember from whence they are fallen, doth very much conduce to their recovery and restoration. In the handling whereof, I shall show, 1. What it is to remember. 2. That to remember doth conduce to recovery. ⟨p. 9⟩3. How remembering from whence we are fallen, doth conduce to recovery.
The first of these four is the Proposition which I shall speak unto, viz. That for a people to remember from whence they are fallen, doth very much conduce to their recovery and restauration. In the handling whereof, I shall shew, 1. What it is to remember. 2. That to remember doth conduce to recovery. ⟨p. 9⟩3. How remembring from whence we are fallen, doth conduce to recovery.
To the first, viz. what it is to remember. The word hath three significations; each and every of which do's very well suite with what is intended in the Text.