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a/src/0031.pm b/src/0031.pm index 54e3ea6..7668010 100644 --- a/src/0031.pm +++ b/src/0031.pm @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ #lang pollenIf yeyou were in silence, if it were no more but to know how barren your hearts were in any good purpose, your silence might thus be profitable to you. YeYou might think, if I should never hear anything that is good, how mischent (wretched),wretched, ill, and barren then should my heart be; and when the word is spoken to you in season, it would make you to receive it with appetite and desire. Indeed, God's people might think that the Lord who had appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs, and had @@ -17,15 +15,15 @@ us to go on without longing, and be content with the fare and entertainment of pilgrims: nothing will move us so much to the doing of this as faith---to remember that there is a Jerusalem above. If we could think upon this, (and ofttimes he sends us hard fare for this end), it would be well. Great spirits in the world will devore (achieve)achieve many things; but there is nothing that will breed such contentment in greatest straits as this, that there is a city prepared for us that cannot be shaken, a city that will stand against all the storms that can blow, because it is builded upon the rock. Jericho was builded with men's hands, and so might fall, but the Lord, he is master builder of Jerusalem above. But because we cannot cast the anchor of our hope within the vail,veil, therefore is it that many times we are miscontent in the world, when we are even, as we would think, at the very top of our ambition, yet even there we will find wants. For there is no contentment in anything here, for they have not a sure foundation, but are builded upon the sand, and so they are nothing but vanity; and if thou hasyou have trusted in anything of that kind, thouyou will find it to be the greatest grief of anything to thee.you.
a/src/0031.pm b/src/0031.pm index 59633f3..54e3ea6 100644 --- a/src/0031.pm +++ b/src/0031.pm @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ of the same promise, and the reason of it is given, "Because he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."◊footnote{◊ref{Heb.11.9-Heb.11.10}} This is the only thing that will make us to go on without longing, and be content with the fare and entertainment of pilgrims: nothing will move us so ◊scottish{mickle#large|much|great}much to the doing of this as faith---to remember that there is a Jerusalem above. If we could think upon this, (and ofttimes he sends us hard fare for this end), it would be well. Great spirits in the world will devore (achieve) many things; but there is nothing will breed
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only in God himself. No less can do the turn of the child of God, and therefore, if we be the children of God, we have blessedness in fruition here, for we are sure it is to come.
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If ye were in silence, if it were no more but to know how barren your hearts were in any good purpose, your silence might thus be profitable to you. Ye might think, if I should never hear anything that is good, how mischent @@ -25,63 +10,22 @@ Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs, and had ordained them to live as pilgrims in tents, that then he had not ordained fixed habitations for the wicked, and so they might hope that that city should be demolished. For Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived all thus, being heirs with him of the same promise, and the reason of it is given, " Because"Because he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."*God."◊footnote{◊ref{Heb.11.9-Heb.11.10}} This is the only thing that will make us to go on without longing, and be content with the fare and entertainment of pilgrims: nothing will move us so mickle to the doing of this as faith---to remember that there is a Jerusalem above. If we could think upon this, (and ofttimes he sends us hard fare for this end), it would be well. Great spirits in the world will devore (achieve) many things; but there is nothing will breed such contentment in greatest straits as this, that there is a city prepared for us that cannot be shaken, a city that will stand against all the storms that can blow, because it is builded upon the rock. Jericho was builded with men's hands, and so might fall, but the Lord, he is master builder of Jerusalem above. But because we cannot cast the anchor of our hope within the vail, therefore is it that many times we are miscontent in the world, when we are even, as we would think,* Heb. xi. g, 10, M
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178 ELEVENTH TABLE. at the very top of our ambition, yet even there we will find wants. For there is no contentment in anything here, for they have not a sure foundation, but are builded upon the sand, and so they are nothing but vanity; and if thou has trusted in anything of that kind, thou will find it to be the greatest grief of anything to thee.11 [TABLE.]
With believing hearts let us now look to the covenant of God, and to the seal of that covenant. O beloved, if we could find some true power of faith to bring our hearts really to God, and to think little of the world, or of all the threatenings or allurements of it; if we could deny ourselves altogether, and cast us over into his hand, it were good for us. This denying of ourselves, and casting ourselves over only upon God, would work a great change into us, whileas while we hang on the world, and lippen in anything more than God, we frustrate ourselves of the comforts of God's word, and of the promises whilk should uphold us in our purposes and callings. Sarah, she was marked for her faith as well as Abraham;* and the women of Israel who sang the song with Moses at the Red Sea, by that their faith was confirmed. Such women as were now living without Jericho, and were believers, might comfort themselves in remembrance of Sarah; for God takes notice of grace wherever it is, both in young and old, and in all sexes. So we should not despise the grace of God in any, although there be infirmities and weakness in the persons who has it; ay, even in these the Lord can make the power of faith to kythe very greatly; he can make precious flowers to grow out of dunghills: and there is no word of her unbelief here; for she judged him faithful who had promised, and so he performed his promise. If thou cannot get this done stedfastly, yet put thy awin heart to it, till thou be assured of the truth of God's promise; if so be that thou can believe the pro * Heb, xi.41%:
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only in God himself. No less can do the turn of the child of God, and therefore, if we be the children of God, we have blessedness in fruition here, for we are sure it is to come.
10. [TABLE.]
If ye were in silence, if it were no more but to know how barren your hearts were in any good purpose, your silence might thus be profitable to you. Ye might think, if I should never hear anything that is good, how mischent (wretched), ill, and barren then should my heart be; and when the word is spoken to you in season, it would make you to receive it with appetite and desire. Indeed, God's people might think that the Lord who had appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and the rest of the patriarchs, and had ordained them to live as pilgrims in tents, that then he had not ordained fixed habitations for the wicked, and so they might hope that that city should be demolished. For Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived all thus, being heirs with him of the same promise, and the reason of it is given, " Because he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."* This is the only thing that will make us to go on without longing, and be content with the fare and entertainment of pilgrims: nothing will move us so mickle to the doing of this as faith---to remember that there is a Jerusalem above. If we could think upon this, (and ofttimes he sends us hard fare for this end), it would be well. Great spirits in the world will devore (achieve) many things; but there is nothing will breed such contentment in greatest straits as this, that there is a city prepared for us that cannot be shaken, a city that will stand against all the storms that can blow, because it is builded upon the rock. Jericho was builded with men's hands, and so might fall, but the Lord, he is master builder of Jerusalem above. But because we cannot cast the anchor of our hope within the vail, therefore is it that many times we are miscontent in the world, when we are even, as we would think,
* Heb. xi. g, 10, M
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at the very top of our ambition, yet even there we will find wants. For there is no contentment in anything here, for they have not a sure foundation, but are builded upon the sand, and so they are nothing but vanity; and if thou has trusted in anything of that kind, thou will find it to be the greatest grief of anything to thee.
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With believing hearts let us now look to the covenant of God, and to the seal of that covenant. O beloved, if we could find some true power of faith to bring our hearts really to God, and to think little of the world, or of all the threatenings or allurements of it; if we could deny ourselves altogether, and cast us over into his hand, it were good for us. This denying of ourselves, and casting ourselves over only upon God, would work a great change into us, whileas while we hang on the world, and lippen in anything more than God, we frustrate ourselves of the comforts of God's word, and of the promises whilk should uphold us in our purposes and callings. Sarah, she was marked for her faith as well as Abraham;* and the women of Israel who sang the song with Moses at the Red Sea, by that their faith was confirmed. Such women as were now living without Jericho, and were believers, might comfort themselves in remembrance of Sarah; for God takes notice of grace wherever it is, both in young and old, and in all sexes. So we should not despise the grace of God in any, although there be infirmities and weakness in the persons who has it; ay, even in these the Lord can make the power of faith to kythe very greatly; he can make precious flowers to grow out of dunghills: and there is no word of her unbelief here; for she judged him faithful who had promised, and so he performed his promise. If thou cannot get this done stedfastly, yet put thy awin heart to it, till thou be assured of the truth of God's promise; if so be that thou can believe the pro * Heb, xi.41%: