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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.
1. Thou that art prayerless, art amongst the Ungodly. For my Text saith, That every one that is godly will pray; they then that live without Prayer, are ungodly ones. There is not a spark of Grace in thy soul. Nay, thou art not so much as in the way thou hast not taken the first step towards Conversion. For, when the Lord cometh to convert a Soul, one of the first things, is, He sets him a Praying; as we see […] Paul, whilst he was in the pang of the new-birth, it was said concerning him, Behold he prayeth, Act. •0. 11. As for thee a sinful wretch, behold thou prayest not. The Lord looketh down from heaven upon thee, from day to day, behold he seeth thee sinning, ⟨p. 19⟩but doth not see thee praying? then thou art far from any Conversion? Thou art amongst the number of the ungodly; and what a case then is thy soul in? and what […] in the Judgement that is to come? Psal. 1. 5. The ungodly shall not stand in the Judgement, nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous.
1. Thou that art prayerless, art amongst the Ungodly. For my Text saith, That every one that is godly will pray; they then that live without Prayer, are ungodly ones. There is not a spark of Grace in thy soul. Nay, thou art not so much as in the way thou hast not taken the first step towards Conversion. For, when the Lord cometh to convert a Soul, one of the first things, is, He sets him a Praying; as we see 〈…〉 Paul, whilst he was in the pang of the new-birth, it was said concerning him, Behold he prayeth, Act. •0. 11. As for thee a sinful wretch, behold thou prayest not. The Lord looketh down from heaven upon thee, from day to day, behold he seeth thee sinning, ⟨p. 19⟩but doth not see thee praying? then thou art far from any Conversion? Thou art amongst the number of the ungodly; and what a case then is thy soul in? and what 〈…〉 in the Judgement that is to come? Psal. 1. 5. The ungodly shall not stand in the Judgement, nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous.