The signal diagnostick whereby we are to judge of our own affections : and as well of our present, as future state, or, The love of Christ planted upon the very same turf, on which it once had been supplanted by the extreme love of sin : being the substance of several sermons, deliver'd at several times and places, and now at last met together to make up the treatise which ensues / by Tho. Pierce.

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed by R N for R Royston
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1670
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A54857 ESTC ID: R12333 STC ID: P2199
Subject Headings: Christian life; Sin;
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In-Text and unfeignedly concern'd in another man's Fiction, (whilst they know and consider, 'tis but a Fiction,) but that it is in the nature of man as man, (before he degenerates into a Brute, ) both to love the vertuous, and to compassionate the miserable? To espouse the cause of the best-deserving, and to side with Innocence in her Afflictions? From whence it follows unavoidably, that he who cannot love goodness without any reference to himself, (his private Interesses, and ends, ) hath deerly bought that disability; which he could never have got at a lower rate, than that of parting with his Humanity, and plucking up by the Root those Flowers of Paradise, which the God of good nature had planted in him. and unfeignedly concerned in Another Man's Fiction, (while they know and Consider, it's but a Fiction,) but that it is in the nature of man as man, (before he Degenerates into a Brute,) both to love the virtuous, and to compassionate the miserable? To espouse the cause of the best-deserving, and to side with Innocence in her Afflictions? From whence it follows avoidable, that he who cannot love Goodness without any Referente to himself, (his private Interesses, and ends,) hath dearly bought that disability; which he could never have god At a lower rate, than that of parting with his Humanity, and plucking up by the Root those Flowers of Paradise, which the God of good nature had planted in him. cc av-j vvn p-acp j-jn ng1 n1, (cs pns32 vvb cc vvb, pn31|vbz p-acp dt n1,) cc-acp cst pn31 vbz p-acp dt n1 pp-f n1 p-acp n1, (c-acp pns31 vvz p-acp dt np1,) d p-acp vvb dt j, cc p-acp j dt j? p-acp vvb dt n1 pp-f dt j, cc p-acp n1 p-acp n1 p-acp po31 n2? p-acp c-crq pn31 vvz av-j, cst pns31 r-crq vmbx vvb n1 p-acp d n1 p-acp px31, (po31 j n2, cc n2,) vhz av-jn vvd d n1; r-crq pns31 vmd av-x vhi vvn p-acp dt jc vvi, cs d pp-f vvg p-acp po31 n1, cc vvg a-acp p-acp dt n1 d n2 pp-f n1, r-crq dt np1 pp-f j n1 vhd vvn p-acp pno31.




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