A Holy Life, The Beauty Of Christianity; Or, An Exhortation To Christians To Be Holy

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1684. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Hardness of heart will not Ietlove so affectionately, and sympathising. ly act as it should. Sence and reason being polluted, will not let hope be sostedfastly fixed upon unseen things as it should. Pride will not let qs be so humble as we ought ., nor self, so self denying: passion often interrupts our patience, and angry motions our meekness. By these and more that might be named, it appears that sin is in us, oppofeth our graces, and letteth them from acting as they should. And because this (in has part of our self in its possession; therefore, though our more noble part be utterly against it, yet we depart not from it as we should. Numb.2o. God chargeth 'Moses with rash l2- and unadvised words, and so he Psal. o6. doth joh also . Danid did wear the fob58.2. name of an Idol God, and Pad ciap.42.5. freely conresseth himself unsirm. Dan. 4. 8. Nor may what hath now been Rom. 7. faid, be applied to those that are 4' weak in saith, and so in every other grace for the strongest grace when aisled as well as we can, cannot cause that that we depart from iniquity as we should. 1. Because the strongest grace? cannot act: without oppoiition. 2. Because we that are the actors are lame, insirm, and made weak by sin that dwells in us. 3. Because grace and a state of grace, is not that wherein the persection designed for us doth lie foe that is in another world. i. This is a place to act faith. wi '..' .: ..r' .'%. This a pjace to labour and traJ . velin.; j. This, is a. place tq sight .and i wrestle in. 4. Thisjs a place to be tryed; in. . . And therefore this is no place of perfection, and consequently no place, where Gods people can depart from iniquity as they should. Now there is a twofold way of. departing from iniquity. 1. One is when the mind is set agai...