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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
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3. Maintain and strengthen your love to God, and his ways. See that you have this principle in you: where this love is not, the best that you do will be but formality; and you had need to be always nourishing this principle in you, and getting of it corroborated: you will meet with many things that will offer to damp it. If you can but attain to do every thing in true love to God, delighting in his ways, and desiring his glory above all things, this will be the best help to do all things uprightly; this will make you see to the matter, and manner, and principle, and end, that all be accommodated to Evangelical directions and designs; and according to the strength and activity of this love in you, such will be the power of ⟨p. 164⟩Godliness appearing in your lives. If the Law of God have that virtue and sweetness with you, that it had with •••vid, who could say, Psal. 19.10. More to be desired than gold, than much refined gold, sweeter also than honey, and the honey comb; this will cause you to lay your selves out to the utmost for him, and that will be very acceptable to him.
3. Maintain and strengthen your love to God, and his ways. See that you have this principle in you: where this love is not, the best that you do will be but formality; and you had need to be always nourishing this principle in you, and getting of it coroborated: you will meet with many things that will offer to damp it. If you can but attain to do every thing in true love to God, delighting in his ways, and desiring his glory above all things, this will be the best help to do all things uprightly; this will make you see to the matter, and manner, and principle, and end, that all be accommodated to Evangelical directions and designs; and according to the strength and activity of this love in you, such will be the power of ⟨p. 164⟩Godliness appearing in your lives. If the Law of God have that vertue and sweetness with you, thar it had with •••vid, who could say, Psal. 19.10. More to be desired than gold, than much refined gold, sweeter also than honey, and the honey comb; this will cause you to lay your selves out to the utmost for him, and that will be very acceptable to him.