3. If we can but keep our selves from this sin, we shall with ease keep our selves from all other sins, 1 Sam. 17. 51. So here, kill but this Goliah and you may easily con∣quer all the multitude of other sins; and therefore the best way to endeavour to convert a man, is to mark what is his
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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own sin, his own Iniquity; kill that and you may save his Soul alive, shew him but the evil of this sin, and he will never like sin any more. And therefore Junius and Tremellius render the words of the Text thus, caveo mihi ne quid inique agam; tho they be not an exact Translation according to the Original, yet may serve for a good comment upon the Text; he that keeps himself from this sin, will keep himself from all sins; when Christ converted Paul he begins with his great sin, shews him the evil of that; Paul tells us what his great sin was in the 1 of the Cor. 15. 9. And every where Paul bemoans himself for this sin, this was the sin that Paul was most proud off, and was never well, but when he was committing and acting of it, 8. Acts 3. 9. Acts 1. Well Christ, he begins with this sin, 9. Acts 4, 5. Assoon as Paul saw the evil of this sin, he pre∣sently forsook every sin. Brethren, I know this if Ministers would deal faith∣fully with you, they must tell you of your own sins, but then you will fly in their faces, this is no pleasing Doctrin; we may Preach before a company of Drunkards a∣gainst Covetousness, against Deceit, a∣gainst
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Fornication, against Bribery and In∣justice, why all is well, but if we come to speak against Drunkenness, there we drive the nail to the quick, it will not be endured: O but Friends if you love your Souls, be willing to hear the evil of your own sins as well as other mens sins, till you leave this you will leave none, if you can but keep your selves from this, you may keep your selves from all others.