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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 unless we love him a great deal better, then both our ease, and our Pleasures, our Reputations, and ourselves too? And then how highly does it concern us to wean ourselves from this world, with whose love the love of Christ is said to be utterly inconsistent? ( Iam. 4. 4.) shall we then be verier Babes than our sucking children, by being fonder of the world, which is a strange and a cruel Nurse, than they are ever wont to be of the Mothers Breast, from which they draw the very substance and means of Life? shall we not wean our selves from the world, from whence we suck nothing but Poison, and the preparatories of Death, by the same Art and Method, which we use in the weaning our sucking Infants? Is it not a very sad and unexcusable Absurdity, that the Tall Parents should go to School to their poor Brat of a span long, and yet complain of too hard a lesson? That they should lay upon their Infant an heavier burthen, unless we love him a great deal better, then both our ease, and our Pleasures, our Reputations, and ourselves too? And then how highly does it concern us to wean ourselves from this world, with whose love the love of christ is said to be utterly inconsistent? (Iam. 4. 4.) shall we then be verier Babes than our sucking children, by being fonder of the world, which is a strange and a cruel Nurse, than they Are ever wont to be of the Mother's Breast, from which they draw the very substance and means of Life? shall we not wean our selves from the world, from whence we suck nothing but Poison, and the Preparatories of Death, by the same Art and Method, which we use in the weaning our sucking Infants? Is it not a very sad and unexcusable Absurdity, that the Tall Parents should go to School to their poor Brat of a span long, and yet complain of too hard a Lesson? That they should lay upon their Infant an Heavier burden, cs pns12 vvb pno31 dt j n1 av-jc, cs d po12 vvi, cc po12 n2, po12 n2, cc px12 av? cc av c-crq av-j vdz pn31 vvi pno12 p-acp vvb px12 p-acp d n1, p-acp rg-crq vvb dt n1 pp-f np1 vbz vvn pc-acp vbi av-j j? (np1 crd crd) vmb pns12 av vbb jc n2 cs po12 vvg n2, p-acp vbg jc pp-f dt n1, r-crq vbz dt j cc dt j n1, cs pns32 vbr av j pc-acp vbi pp-f dt ng1 n1, p-acp r-crq pns32 vvb dt j n1 cc n2 pp-f n1? vmb pns12 xx vvi po12 n2 p-acp dt n1, p-acp c-crq pns12 vvb pix cc-acp n1, cc dt n2 pp-f n1, p-acp dt d n1 cc n1, r-crq pns12 vvb p-acp dt vvg po12 vvg n2? vbz pn31 xx dt j j cc j n1, cst dt j n2 vmd vvi pc-acp vvi p-acp po32 j n1 pp-f dt n1 av-j, cc av vvi pp-f av j dt n1? cst pns32 vmd vvi p-acp po32 n1 dt jc n1,




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In-Text Iam. 4. 4. James 4.4