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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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4. That true Godliness is always accompanied with life and power. It is true, in the exercising of it, there is no• always the same force and efficacy of this life exerting it self, and appearing in the prosecution of their Christian Conversation: ⟨p. 47⟩and the reason of it is, because the grace which is in the children of God is too often overcome with the remaining corruption which is in them, and hindereth them from doing that which they would. But this notwithstanding, true Godliness hath always in it a principle of Spiritual Life, which shall never be extinguished: Grace is the root of it; and that is a living principle which is put into the man: and where this life is, there is power; for life is a power of performing life acts. When God infuseth a Spirit of Godliness into the Souls of any, he is said to quicken them, Eph. 2 1. You hath he quickened, who were dead, &c. There is no man that is really Godly, but such an one as hath received the Spirit of God, who dwelling in him by his Grace, efficaciously enableth him to serve and glorify God, by believing in Christ, and following of Holiness: & where this great change hath not past upon the man, he is not Godly, but remains under the powerful dominion of sin and impiety.
4. That true Godliness is always accompanied with life and power. It is true, in the exercis•ng of it, there is no• always the same force and efficacy of this life exerting it self, and appearing in the prosecution of their Christian Conversation: ⟨p. 47⟩and the reason of it is, because the grace which is in the children of God is too often overcome with the remaining corruption which is in them, and hindereth them from doing that which they would. But this notwithstanding, true Godliness hath always in it a principle of Spiritual Life, which shall never be extinguished: Grace is the root of it; and that is a living principle which is put into the man: and where this life is, there is power; for life is a power of performing life acts. When God infuseth a Spirit of Godliness into the Souls of any, he is said to quicken them,