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The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with…
The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Being the substance of several sermons preached: / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [One line from Augustine in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1700
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.
3. You will meet with great Temptations, which will offer to discourage you at such a time. What they are hath been ⟨p. 160⟩before taken notice of; and let Godly ones who have the root of the matter in them, beware of despising this warning, or thinking themselves out of the reach of these Temptations. Godly men have a corrupt▪ part remaining within them, which they do find work enough to suppress at any time, and it will certainly take advantage to urge hard, when it hath motives from without to back its suggestions withal: nor will all your Confidence secure you against the assaults of it, but it will be too hard for you, if you be not very heedful to your selves. You have awful instances of this to give you warning. Peter for all his resolution, and repeated purposes, was yet fearfully over come when the trial was upon him. Matth. 26. Barnabas was drawn into a Scandalous dissimulation, when Peter had begun, Gal. 2.12. You had need to be well provided, if you will stem the stream of the times, and hold out against all that would allure you from your fidelity to Christ, when you may be called to part with every thing else, though never so dear to you, if you will preserve your integrity immaculate; and for your help on this account.
3. You will meet with great Temptations, which will offer to discourage you at such a time. What they are hath been ⟨p. 160⟩before taken notice of; and let Godly ones who have the root of the matter in them, beware of despising this warning, or thinking themselves out of the reach of these Temptations. Godly men have a corrupt▪ part remaining within them, which they do find work enough to suppress at any time, and it will certainly take advantage to urge hard, when it hath motives from without to back its suggestions withall: nor will all your Confidence secure you against the assaults of it, but it will be too hard for you, if you be not very headful to your selves. You have awful instances of this to give you warning. Peter for all his resolution, and repeated purposes, was yet fearfully over come when the tryal was upon him.