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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
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. Answ. No, there are two duties to be performed yet by us, in either of which if we be negligent all our labour is lost.
1. Answ. No, there are two duties to be performed yet by us, in either of which if wee be negligent all our labour is lost.
2. The 1. Is a care to keep that holiness we have, 1 Tim. 1. 19. The reason is because that many have escaped in some degree the pollutions of the world, and yet have been entangled therein and overcome, and so the latter end hath been worse with them then their beginning, 2 Pet. 21. 22.
2. The 1. Is a care to keepe that holinesse we have, 1 Tim. 1. 19. The reason is because that many have escapt in some degree the pollutions of the world, and yet have beene intangled therein and overcome, and so the latter end hath beene worse with them then their beginning, 2 Pet. 21. 22.
3. Now we shall hold fast our holiness, 1. If we be mindful of the Covenant which we made with God, Job. 31. 1. And of our redemption, 1 Cor. 6. 19. 20. 2 If we take diligent heed, that we never repent of any repentance, Jer. 34. 11. That is if we be careful that we never fall in love with that sin which we have hated, or slight any duty which our Consciences have approved, no not in those things, which the world counts small and as nothing.