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Thoughts indeed are of so vanishing and transient a na∣••ure, so easily escaping your ob∣••ervation, and so apt to leave ••ou ignorant how therein you
The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ...
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- The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ...
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- Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.
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- London :: Printed for W. Crooke ...,
- 1691.
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- Lord's Supper.
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"The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26360.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.
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have offended, that you have great cause to be signally dili∣gent in their search. Besides men are apt to imagine, thoughts are not so evil, as indeed the•• are, because Custom hath taugh•• them to say, Thoughts are free•• Whence they vulgarly conclud•• they may think as they please without offence. And had yo•• only to do with Creature•• short-sighted like your self, ther•• might be some ground for s•• saying: But being to deal wit•• God, whose Law reaches you•• Thoughts, and forbids them t•• be wicked, you want no Rea∣sons moving you to search ho•• far therein you have offended and to repent thereof e're yo•• come to the Holy Table. E∣vil thoughts are the more im∣mediate defilers of the heart they pollute the very spring 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all your Words and Actions and till the thoughts of you
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heart be cleansed by the inspi∣ration of the Holy Spirit, it will be no more fit to receive Christ in the Sacrament, than the Manger was to lodge him at his birth.