The law and equity of the gospel, or, The goodness of our Lord as a legislator delivered first from the pulpit in two plain sermons, and now repeated from the press with others tending to the same end ... by Thomas Pierce ...

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1686
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A54843 ESTC ID: R38205 STC ID: P2185
Subject Headings: Christian life; Providence and government of God;
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In-Text And if the whole World does lye in wickedness, (as St. Iohn affirms it does,) how can we look to be the purer, by growing old and decrepit in so much Dirt? no, the longer we converse with Pitch or Birdlime, (to which the wickedness of the World may very happily be compar'd) It is by so much the harder to make us clean. Besides, we ought to run after Christ, (like this Inquirer in the Text,) not go to him like a Torpedo, as if we did not affect, but fear him; And if the Whole World does lie in wickedness, (as Saint John affirms it does,) how can we look to be the Purer, by growing old and decrepit in so much Dirt? no, the longer we converse with Pitch or Birdlime, (to which the wickedness of the World may very happily be compared) It is by so much the harder to make us clean. Beside, we ought to run After christ, (like this Inquirer in the Text,) not go to him like a Torpedo, as if we did not affect, but Fear him; cc cs dt j-jn n1 vdz vvi p-acp n1, (c-acp n1 np1 vvz pn31 vdz,) q-crq vmb pns12 vvi pc-acp vbi dt jc, p-acp j-vvg j cc j p-acp av d n1? av-dx, dt jc pns12 vvi p-acp n1 cc n1, (p-acp r-crq dt n1 pp-f dt n1 vmb av av-j vbi vvn) pn31 vbz p-acp av av-d dt jc pc-acp vvi pno12 j. a-acp, pns12 vmd p-acp vvb p-acp np1, (av-j d vvi p-acp dt n1,) xx vvi p-acp pno31 av-j dt np1, c-acp cs pns12 vdd xx vvi, p-acp vvb pno31;




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