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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 thing 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.
II. At the first, when Believers come in to Jesus Christ, they are very industrious in all holy duties, publicly and privately; they will take pains for God, and for their souls, and will not offer unto God that that cost them nought; They will rise early, and go to bed late, I, and eat the bread of carefulness; The doing of their fathers will, for that is their meat and their drink; and certainly if it be not thus now, thou art fallen; if thou put off God with any thing, nay, (may I not fear put off God) with nothing, art thou not fallen?
II. At the first, when Believers come in to Jesus Christ, they are very industrious in all holy duties, publickly and privately; they will take paines for God, and for their soules, and will not offer unto God that that cost them nought; They will rise early, and go to bed late, I, and eat the bread of carefulness; The doing of their fathers will, for that is their meat and their drink; and certainly if it be not thus now, thou art fallen; if thou put off God with any thing, nay, (may I not fear put off God) with nothing, art thou not fallen?
Thou hadst wont to have been much in prayer, and much at hearing; if now thou art but little at prayer, & little at hearing; art thou not fallen? They had wont to long for Sabbaths, and, O when will they come? and now they think Sabbaths long, and when will they be gone, & art thou not fallen? O ⟨p. 36⟩member from whence thou art fallen, do thy first works, pray as in the days of old, and hear as in the days of old, with an appetite.
Thou hadst wont to have been much in prayer, and much at hearing; if now thou art but little at prayer, & little at hearing; art thou not fallen? They had wont to long for Sabbaths, and, O when will they come? and now they thinke Sabbaths long, and when will they be gone, & art thou not fallen? O ⟨p. 36⟩member from whence thou art falen, do thy first works, pray as in the dayes of old, and hear as in the dayes of old, with an appetite.