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Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Holy Dying (1651)
But exhortations must prevail with their own proper weight, not by the passion of the speaker.
Holy Dying (1651)
The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.
Holy Dying (1651)
All that a sick and dying man can do, is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired, and to perfect that repentance, which was begun more early.
Holy Dying (1651)
Virtue and vice are oftentimes so near neighbours that we pass into each other’s borders without observation, and think we do justice when we are cruel; or call ourselves liberal when we are loose and foolish in expenses; and are amorous when we commend our own civilities and good nature.
Holy Dying (1651)
And what can be greater than that from the goodness and love of God we receive Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and adoption, and the inheritance of sons, and to be coheirs with Jesus, and to have pardon of our sins, and a Divine nature, and restraining grace and the grace of sanctification, and rest and peace within us, and a certain expectation of glory?
Holy Dying (1651)
O most gracious and eternal God and loving Father, Who hast poured out Thy bowels upon us, and sent the Son of Thy love unto us to die for love, and to make us dwell in love, and the eternal comprehensions of Thy Divine mercies, O be pleased to inflame my heart with a holy charity towards Thee and all the world.
Holy Dying (1651)