Guthrie, W: Christian's Great Interest, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic

Excerpt from The Christian's Great Interest, Vol. 1 of 2

And this knowledge of it, which may be attained, is no fancy and bare conceit, but it is molt fure Doubt leis thou art our Father, faith the proph he name of the church. It is clear u hat can be no fancy, but a very fure knowledge, which doth yield to a rational man comfort in molt real firaits but fo doth this When the people fpake of {toning David, be encouraged himfelf in the Lord his God. He faith there, he will not be afraid of ten thoufands that rife againli him. Compare thefe words with that pfalm, But thou, O Lord, art a fhield for me: my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. The Lord is my light, and my falvation, whom fhall I fear? The Lord is the llrength of my life, of whom {hall I be afraid i' Tho' an holl lhould encamp againlt me, my heart {hall not fear though war fhould rife againil me, in this will I be confident. That is a fure knowledge of a thing which maketh a wife merchant fell all he hath that he may keep it fure that maketh a man forego children, lands, life, and fulfer the fpoiling of all joyfully but fo doth this. That mull be a fare and certain knowledge, and no fancy, whereupon a man voluntari ly and freely doth adventure his foul when he is fiepping into eternity, with this word in his mouth, This is all my defire but foch a knowledge is this.

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