B02731:39
Old Mr. Dods sayings
London: printed by A. Maxwell, 1680
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
34. It is not crying out upon the devil, […] declaiming against ••m prayer or discou•• but fighting with the devil, and mortify our lusts, that God chiefly looks upon.
34. It is not crying out upon the devil, 〈…〉 declaming against ••m prayer or discou•• but fighting with the devil, and mortifyi• our lusts, that God chiefly looks upon.
35. The ••••ty professor disappoint […] at ••ce 1. The world, who seeing th• […] sin but finds none: 2. […] self wh• think• to reach heaven, but fa•• […] of it.
35. The ••••ty professour disappoin• 〈…〉 at ••ce 1. The world, who seeing th• 〈…〉 sinne but finds none: 2. 〈…〉 self wh• think• to reach heaven, but fa•• 〈…〉 of it.
36. The only way for a distressed soul th• […] on former comforts, by reason of future backslidings, and so questions […] ⟨p. 11⟩this former evidences is To renew his repentance, as if he had never believed,
36. The only way for a distressed soul th• 〈…〉 on former comforts, by reaso• of future backslidings, and so questions 〈…〉 ⟨p. 11⟩this former evidences is To renew his repentance, as if he had never believed,
37. Some are apt to think, if they are in such a family, under such a minister, out of such temptations, the devil would not meddle with them as he doth: But such should know, that so long as his old friend is alive within, he will be knocking at the door without.
38. The s•ed were sown so deep in the nature of the devil, and the Saint, that they will never be rooted out till the devil cease to be a devil, and sin to be sin, and the Saint to be a Saint.
39. The sinner is the devil's Miller, always grinding, and the devil is always filling the Hopper, that the Mill may not stand still.
39. The sinner is the devil's Miller, alwayes grinding, and the devil is alwayes filling the Hopper, that the Mill may not stand still.
40. There be some sins that an ignorant person cannot commit; but there are far more that an ignorant person cannot but commit.
41. There be five •yes by which the God of heaven hath bound himself to be the Saints Life guard against the powers of darkness: 1. His relation to them as a Father: 2. His love to them, in respect as they being the Birth of his everlasting counsel, are partakers of his own Likeness: 3. The price of His Sons Blood, and His Covenant with them: 4. Their dependence upon Him, and expectation from him in all their straits. Now the expectations of the poor shall not perish, Psal. 9.18. 5. Christs present employment in ⟨p. 12⟩heaven is to see all things carried fairly between God and them.
41. There be five •yes by which the God of heaven hath bound himself to be the Saints Life guard against the powers of darknesse: 1. His relation to them as a Father: 2. His love to them, in respect as they being the Birth of his everlasting counsel, are partakers of his own Likenesse: 3. The price of His Sons Blood, and His Covenant with them: 4. Their dependance upon Him, and expectation from him in all their straits. Now the expectations of the poor shall not perish, Psal. 9.18. 5. Christs present imployment in ⟨p. 12⟩heaven is to see all things carried fairly between God and them.
42. Brown bread with the Gospel, is good fare.
FINIS.