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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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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.
Then went Sampson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto h•r. Nay again, you shall find him fall three times into the same sin. First of all, he did three times tell a lye, one after another; when Delilah came to inveigle him on the instigation of the Philistines that she should learn where Samsons strength lay: first saith Sampson, If they bind me with seven green withs, that were never dried; then shall I be weak, and be as ⟨p. 177⟩another man. But when he was bound, he broke the withs as one would break the thread a two when it toucheth the fire: then saith she, why hast thou deceived me and told me a lye? then he told her again, If thou wilt bind me with new ropes that were never used, then I shall be weak like another man: but he broke the ropes. Nay he tells her a third lye, he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web, then my strength will go from me, and this she did also, and his strength remained. But the fourth time he told her truth, saith he, If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like another man: and she caused the seven locks upon his head to be shaved off, and his strength went from him. I speak this to a perplexed conscience; that good men may be so overborne that they may frequently act over the same sin again and again.
Then went Sampson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto h•r. Nay again, you shall finde him fall three times into the same sin. First of all, he did three times tell a lye, one after another; when Dalilah came to inveagle him on the instigation of the Philistims that she should learn where Sampsons strength lay: first saith Sampson, If they binde me with seven green withs, that were never dryed; then shall I be weak, and be as ⟨p. 177⟩another man. But when he was bound, he broke the withs as one would break the thred a two when it toucheth the fire: then saith shee, why hast thou deceived me and told me a lye? then he told her again, If thou wilt binde me with new ropes that were never used, then I shall be weak like another man: but he broke the ropes. Nay he tels her a third lye, he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web, then my strength will go from me, and this she did also, and his strength remained. But the fourth time he told her truth, saith he, If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like another man: and she caused the seven locks upon his head to be shaved off, and his strength went from him. I speak this to a perplexed conscience; that good men may be so overborn that they may frequently act over the same sin again and again.