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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
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.
Reas. 2. Every godly man is sensible of his wants and miseries. They that feel their wants will cry for relief: so do all that are godly. Therefore are they called the Humble, Psal. 10. 17. The humble man is sensible of his own emptiness and nothingness, and that he needs continual supplies of Grace from God by Jesus Christ. The more grace every man hath, the more doth he feel his want of grace, and that sets him a praying for it. He that hath the grace of knowledge is sensible of his ignorance, and therefore prays for more wisdom, Jam. 1. 5. He that hath the grace of Faith is sensible of his unbelief, and therefore prayeth against it: Mar. 9. 24. The Apostles having faith, were sensible that they stood in need of more, and of much Faith, and that made them pray, Lord, increase our Faith, Luk. 17. 5. he that hath the grace of Repentance, is sensible of the hardness of his own heart, and therefore prayeth against it, Isai, 63. 17.
Reas. 2. Every godly man is sensible of his wants and miseries. They that feel their wants will cry for relief: so do all that are godly. Therefore are they called the Humble, Psal. 10. 17. The humble man is sensible of his own emptiness and nothingness, and that he needs continual supplies of Grace from God by Jesus Christ. The more grace every man hath, the more doth he feel his want of grace, and that sets him a praying for it. He that hath the grace of knowledge is sensible of his ignorance, and therefore prayes for more wisdome, Jam. 1. 5. He that hath the grace of Faith is sensible of his unbelief, and therefore prayeth against it: Mar. 9. 24. The Apostles having faith, were sensible that they stood in need of more, and of much Faith, and that made them pray, Lord, increase our Faith, Luk. 17. 5. he that hath the grace of Repentance, is sensible of the hardness of his own heart, and therefore prayeth against it, Isai, 63. 17.