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The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the…
The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the Gospel
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1675
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.
TO THE READER.
Christian Reader,
THE weightiness of the Argument here discoursed on, justly merits a larger volume: But I have contracted it, because it may possibly come into more hands. I must profess I know not a more necessary point in Divinity. Self-denial is the first principle of Christianity; it is the life-blood, which must run through the whole body of Religion. Self-denial is learned not out of the Topics of Philosophy, but the Oracles of Scripture. It is my request to the Reader, to peruse this Manual with seriousness, as knowing the Practice of Self-denial is that wherein his salvation is nearly concerned. The Lord work with his ⟨image 3⟩word, and cause the dew of his blessing to fall with this Manna, which is the Prayer of
THE weightiness of the Argument here discoursed on, justly merits a larger volume: But I have contracted it, because it may possibly come into more hands. I must profess I know not a more necessary point in Divinity. Self-denial is the first principle of Christianity; it is the life-blood, which must run through the whole body of Religion. Self-denial is learned not out of the Topicks of Philosophy, but the Oracles of Scripture. It is my request to the Reader, to peruse this Manual with seriousness, as knowing the Practice of Self-denial is that wherein his salvation is nearly concerned. The Lord work with his ⟨image 3⟩