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The poor doubting christian drawn to Christ· Wherein the main lets and hindrances which…The poore doubting christian drawne to Christ· Wherein the maine letts and hindrances vvhich…
The poor doubting christian drawn to Christ· Wherein the main lets and hindrances which keep men from coming to Christ are discovered. With special helps to recover Gods favour.The poore doubting christian drawne to Christ· Wherein the maine letts and hindrances vvhich keepe men from comming to Christ are discovered. With speciall helps to recover Gods favour.
London: printed by M. Flescher for R. Dawlman and L. Fawn, 1636
THE POOR DOUBTING CHRISTIAN drawn unto Christ.THE POORE DOVBTING CHRISTIAN drawne unto Christ.
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.
First, the distressed soul being happily truly humbled, takes notice of the beauty of holiness, and the Image of God stamped upon the hearts of his children, and of all those precious promises which God hath made to all that are his; now the soul seeing ⟨p. 7⟩these, begins thus to reason with himself, and saith, Surely if I were so holy and so gracious, then I might have hope to receive the pardon of my sins; for were my heart so enlarged to duties, and could my heart be so carried with power against my corruptions to master them, then there were some hope; but when I have no power against sin, nor any heart to seek so importunately for a Christ, how dare I think that any mercy belongs to me, having so many wants? thus they dare not come to the promise, and they will not venture upon it, because they have not that enlargement ⟨p. 8⟩to duties, and that power against corruption which sometimes the Saints of God have.
First, the distressed soule being happily truely humbled, takes notice of the beauty of holinesse, and the Image of God stampt upon the hearts of his children, and of all those precious promises which God hath made to all that are his; now the soule seeing ⟨p. 7⟩these, begins thus to reason with himselfe, and saith, Surely if I were so holy and so gracious, then I might have hope to receive the pardon of my sinnes; for were my heart so enlarged to duties, and could my heart bee so carried with power against my corruptions to master them, then there were some hope; but when I have no power against sin, nor any heart to seeke so importunatly for a Christ, how dare I thinke that any mercy belongs to me, having so many wants? thus they dare not come to the promise, and they will not venture upon it, because they have not that inlargement ⟨p. 8⟩to duties, and that power against corruption which sometimes the Saints of God have.