dehorts

It makes the act of living unto God by faith and obedience to be a mere natural act, no fruit of the mediation or purchase of Christ; and allows the Spirit of God no more power or efficacy in or towards our regeneration than is in a minister who preacheth the word, or in an orator who eloquently and pathetically persuades to virtue and dehorts from vice.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

He dehorts from sundry particular evils that were contrary thereto, and then gives the general enforcement of the one and the other, “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God;” that is, by coming short of that universal sanctification which our planting into Christ doth require.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

The thing he dehorts us from; to wit, the meanest and most sordid of all vices, covetousness.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

All which particulars put together, viz. the quality of the person dehorting us, the nature of the thing he dehorts us from, and the certainty of the remedy he advises us to, make it disputable, whether we are to take the words of the text as the absolute command of a legislator, or the endearing counsel of a friend.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

And dehorts them from glorying in particular ministers, because of the equal interest they had in all, ver. 22 to the end.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

And, having cautioned them against the abuse of their liberty, he vehemently dehorts them from fornication, by various arguments, ver.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721