CLXXXIX.
WE cannot want Arguments for Meditation, if we call to mind our Christianity, that is, diligently exa∣mine if we do participate of Christs Righteousuess, to such a degree, that our conversion from sin, and our natural cor∣ruptions,
Mid-night thoughts, writ, as some think, by a London-Whigg, or, a Westminster-Tory, others think by a Quaker, or, a Jesuit: but call him what they please, they may find him a true penitent of the church of Christ.
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- Mid-night thoughts, writ, as some think, by a London-Whigg, or, a Westminster-Tory, others think by a Quaker, or, a Jesuit: but call him what they please, they may find him a true penitent of the church of Christ.
- Author
- Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.
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- London :: printed for Benj. clark, bookseller, in George-Yard in Lombard-street,
- 1682.
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- Jesus Christ -- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mid-night thoughts, writ, as some think, by a London-Whigg, or, a Westminster-Tory, others think by a Quaker, or, a Jesuit: but call him what they please, they may find him a true penitent of the church of Christ." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47386.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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be changed into such an Evan∣gelical habit of Holiness, as to manifest our Spiritual Resurrection, and Election to our own hearts; for then, nothing can engage us unto higher gratitude, and love, then a true sense of so great a be∣nefit received, which when seriously con∣sidered, will mount up our Souls to fre∣quent extasies of blessed Joy, by our de∣vout approaches in Adoration of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who are all three always working us up to our Salvation. Then which, nothing can be more worthy of our Meditation, and sincere examination, that we may be ready for the day of Judgment; which no man can be, that does not live so, as to be chearfully ready to die; for it is a much greater business to go out of the World, then to live in it.