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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
1. So far as the Fear of Death is a Curb-bit to keep him from Sin.1 A believer may lawfully make use of all means to deter him from sin. No stronger antidote against sin, saith Austin, than the Fear of Death. Am I sinning, and to morrow may be dying?
1. So far as the Fear of Death is a Curben-bit to keep him from Sin.1 A believer may lawfully make use of all means to deter him from sin. No stronger antidote against sin, saith Austin, than the Fear of Death. Am I sinning, and to morrow may be dying?
- 1Answ.
2. A Child of God may so far Fear death, as it makes him dye to the World. The Fear of death would sound a retreat and call us off from Vanity. What is the world? we must leave it shortly, and all we can purchase is a burying-place†
3. A Child of God may so far Fear death, as this Fear fits him more for death. Jacob feared his brother ⟨p. 68⟩Esau's coming against him, and he prepared to meet him, he addressed himself to Prayer,