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Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…
Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street, London
London : printed for the use of the poor, and freely given to them by some worthy benefactors, who desire their salvation, 1668
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.
I. The first words shall be to try you, whether you be in a state of Salvation; and here I must put you upon the trial of your selves, wherein I may give you some help; take the Exhortation of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves, whether ye be in the Faith, prove your own selves. Examine your selves by the Rule of the Word: And because these Words are chiefly intended in order to the salvation of such as have not yet attained it; to prepare them for the following Motives and Directions, which, if they mistook themselves to have already attained to a state of salvation, would likely ⟨p. 2⟩do them no good: Therefore I shall briefly out of the Word of God give
I. The first words shall be to try you, whether you be in a state of Salvation; and here I must put you upon the tryall of your selves, wherein I may give you some help; take the Exhortation of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves, whether ye be in the Faith, prove your own selves. Examine your selves by the Rule of the Word: And because these Words are chiefly intended in order to the salvation of such as have not yet attained it; to prepare them for the following Motives and Directions, which, if they mistook themselves to have already attained to a state of salvation, would likely ⟨p. 2⟩do them no good: Therefore I shall briefly out of the Word of God give