B00150:763
A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
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.
38. Watchfulness, which is a narrow, careful, and continual keeping, observing, and overseeing of our hearts, and all our ways, Prou. 4. 23. is both exceeding necessary, seeing that of our selves we are apt to err, Psa. 95. 10. and have many occasions besides to draw us away from godliness, Luk. 14. 18. 20. and exceeding profitable to prevent or withstand Satan, 1. Pet. 5. 8. Matth. 26. 41. keep under lusts, avoid and cut off strayings and wanderings of mind and life, 2. Tim. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 16. 13. Psa. 101. 2. keep the heart in good order, and to eschew dangerous decays, falls, and discomforts, which otherwise men shall run into. 2. Sam. 11. 2. 1. Tim. 2. 14. 2. Cor. 11. 3.
38. Watchfulnesse, which is a narrow, carefull, and continuall keeping, obseruing, and ouerseeing of our hearts, and all our waies, Prou. 4. 23. is both exceeding necessarie, seeing that of our selues we are apt to erre, Psa. 95. 10. and haue many occasions besides to draw vs away from godlinesse, Luk. 14. 18. 20. and exceeding profitable to preuent or withstand Sathan,