The Proem.
NOthing is more easie to observe, than that the mind of man (beeing ever prone to ex∣tremities) is no sooner fetcht
The remedy of prophanenesse. Or, Of the true sight and feare of the Almighty A needful tractate. In two bookes. By Ios. Exon.
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- Title
- The remedy of prophanenesse. Or, Of the true sight and feare of the Almighty A needful tractate. In two bookes. By Ios. Exon.
- Author
- Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Nathanael Butter, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the pyde-Bull, at S. Austins Gate,
- 1637.
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- Fear of God -- Early works to 1800.
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"The remedy of prophanenesse. Or, Of the true sight and feare of the Almighty A needful tractate. In two bookes. By Ios. Exon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02586.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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off from Superstition, than it is apt to fall upō Prophanenesse: finding no meane betwixt ex∣cesse of devotion, and an irre∣ligious neglect. No wise Chri∣stian, who hath so much as so∣journed in the world, can choose but feele, and (with griefe of heart) confesse this truth: We are ready to think of Gods matters, as no better than our owne: And a saucy kind of familiarity, this way, hath bred a palpable contempt; so as we walk with the great God of Heaven, as with our fellow; and think of his sacred Ordinances, as either some common imployment, or fa∣shionable superfluity. Out of
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an earnest desire therefore to settle in my selfe, and others, right thoughts, and meet dis∣positions of heart, towards the glorious and infinite Majesty of our God, and his holy ser∣vices (wherein we are all apt to be too defective) I have put my pen upon this seasonable task; beseeching that Almigh∣ty God, (whose work it is) to blesse it both in my hand, and in the perufall of all Readers; whom I beseech to know, that I have written this, not for their eyes, but for their hearts; and therefore charge them as they tender the good of their owne soules, not to rest in the bare speculation, but to work them∣selves
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to a serious, and sensible practice of these holy prescrip∣tions, as without which, they shall never have either true hold of God, or found peace, and comfort in their owne soules. Come then yee children, hearken unto me, and I shall teach you the feare of the Lord; There cannot be a fitter lesson for me, in the improvement of my age, to reade, nor for your spiritu∣all advantage to take out: One glance of a thought, of this kind, is worth a volume of quarrelsome litigation.
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Psal. 34.11