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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.
A third, and no less famous an experience, ⟨p. 15⟩you have of this in Psal. 119.59. I bethought me, saith he, of my ways, and turned my feet unto thy Testimonies: He speaks the language of a man that had been wandering, that had gone out of his way, and turned aside to by-paths; but at last is at a stand, & makes an halt, and then bethought himself: I began, saith he, to call to mind whence I came, whither I was going, and where I was: and finding that I was not right, but was fallen; I faced about, and turned my feet unto thy Testimonies.
A third, and no lesse famous an experience, ⟨p. 15⟩you have of this in Psal. 119.59. I bethought me, saith he, of my ways, and turned my feet unto thy Testimonies: He speaks the language of a man that had been wandering, that had gone out of his way, and turned aside to by-paths; but at last is at a stand, & makes an halt, and then bethought himself: I began, saith he, to call to minde whence I came, whither I was going, and where I was: and finding that I was not right, but was fallen; I fac'd about, and turned my feet unto thy Testimonies.
Thus you see the truth clearly evinced, That remembering from whence we are fallen, doth very much conduce to our recovery.
Thus you see the truth clearly evinced, That remembring from whence we are fallen, doth very much conduce to our recovery.