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The Christian's great interest. Or, A short treatise, divided into two parts. The first…
The Christian's great interest. Or, A short treatise, divided into two parts. The first whereof, containeth the [sic] trial of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly the [sic] way how to attain it: : Wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. / By William Guthrie, Minister of the Gospel, at New-Kilmarnock.The Christian's great interest. Or, A short treatise, divided into two parts. The first whereof, containeth te [sic] tryal of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly te [sic] way how to attain it: : Wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. / By William Guthrie, Minister of the Gospel, at New-Kilmarnock.
printed by T. Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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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. Heart-rising at the thriving of others in the work and way of God, whiles• I love it in my self; yea, the rising of heart against Providence, which often expresseth it self against the Creatures nearest our hand; yea, this rising of heart entertained and maintained, (although they be horrid things leading towards that Unpardonable Sin, yet) are not that Sin; for these may be in the Saints, proceeding from self love, which cannot endure to be darkened by another, and proceeding from some cross in their Idol, under a fit of Temptation: the most part of all this was in Jonah, Jon. 4.
3. Heart-rising at the thriving of others in the work and way of God, whiles• I love it in my self; yea, the rising of heart against Providence, which often expresseth it self against the Creatures nearest our hand; yea, this rising of heart entertained and maintained, (although they be horrid things leading towards that Unpardonable Sin, yet) are not that Sin; for these may be in the Saints, proceeding from self love, which cannot endure to be darkned by another, and proceeding from some cross in their Idol, under a fit of Temptation: the most part of all this was in Jonah, Jon. 4.
4. Not only are not decays in what once was in the man, and falling into gross sins against light, after the receiving of ⟨p. 178⟩the truth, this Unpardonable Sin; (for then many of all the Saints in Scripture were undone) But further, Apostasy from much of the truth, is not that Sin: for that was in Solomon, and in the Church of Corinth and Galatia; yea, Denying, yea, Foreswearing of the most fundamental Truth, under a great temptation, is not this sin; for then Peter had been then undone.