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Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
Conscience with the power and cases thereof Divided into V. books. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latin into English, for more public benefit.Conscience with the power and cases thereof Devided into V. bookes. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latine into English, for more publique benefit.
Leiden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639Leyden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639
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Question, 1. What are the sins of the Heart?
QUestion, 1. What are the sins of the Heart?
1. Ans. The sins of the heart are partly thoughts, partly delights, and partly desires.
Qu. 2. What thoughts are to be accounted as sins?
2. Ans. There's a threefold thought of the heart about that which is evil. 1. In the bare and simple apprehending of evil.1 2. When with that apprehension there's joined some motion of the heart to consent to the evil. 3. When there is a full approbation of and consent unto the evil. In the first of these there is of it self no sin. For it was in Christ. Mat. 4. 1. Hence it is rightly said to know evil is not evil. But the other two kinds of thoughts are not without sin. For the third none makes question, and for the second the Scripture is plain.