6. Look into the Scriptures, and there you shall see, that you shall be no losers but gainers by parting with your sins, 2 Chron. 25. from the 6th to the 10th verse,
Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- 1687.
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"Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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so many will say what shall we do to live, we live by our sins, we gain by our sins, (19. Acts. 24, 25. so some say we must cozen now and then, or we cannot live by our trade, we must to the Ale house now and then, or we cannot get a good bargain) do you so, the Devil may take such gain if he will; but know this, that God is able to do more for you than sin can do, 2 Kings 1. 2, 3. what, is there not a God in Heaven to provide for you, that you must go to sin, and the Devil to get a lively-hood. Saul, he never went to the Devil before God had left him, and answered him no more; but alass, how many run to the Devil before God hath left them; what, is there never a promise in the whole Bible, to comfort your hearts, but you must go to sin for comfort? is not Heaven rich enough and glorious enough to make you happy, but you must have sin also to lye in the scales? O remem∣ber this if you part with your best sins, you shall be no losers.