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The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on AdamThe paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam
The pattern of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. marks. By T.H.The paterne of perfection exhibited in Gods image on Adam: and Gods covenant made with him. Whereunto is added an exhortation, to redeem the time for recovering our losses in the premisses. And also some miscellanies, viz. I. The prayer of faith. II. A preparative to the Lords Supper. III. The character of a sound Christian, in 17. markes. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young for R. Young, 1640
THE PATTERN of perfection. › Section 4: §. 4.THE PATERNE of perfection. › Section 4: §. 4.
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2. As you cross Gods command, so you damn the souls of those that God hath committed unto your charge: thou that keepest their souls from holiness, keepest them from happiness. Oh it will one day be a wound to thy conscience, to think with thy self, My child would have followed holiness, but I would not suffer him: therefore is he gone into the bottomless pit, and I was the cause of it.
2. As you crosse Gods command, so you damne the souls of those that God hath committed unto your charge: thou that keepest their soules from holinesse, keepest them from happinesse. Oh it will one day be a wound to thy conscience, to thinke with thy selfe, My childe would have followed holinesse, but I would not suffer him: therefore is he gone into the bottomlesse pit, and I was the cause of it.
1Use 3. Doth holiness fit a man to love God above all? ⟨p. 81⟩and wouldest thou know whether thou hast an holy heart? Try it from the former truth, Where ever holiness is, it fits the heart to love God above all. Canst thou do this, which holiness enables a man to do? then if there be holiness in heaven, it is also in thine heart. I do not mean, that any man should have the exactness that Adam had in creation; but what he had in perfection, we must have in desire. Thou must have an heart enlarged to love God above all, though thou hast many weaknesses with it. Many for want of this are cast out, as not being partakers of this saving work: Namely
1Use 3. Doth holinesse fit a man to love God above all? ⟨p. 81⟩and wouldest thou know whether thou hast an holy heart? Try it from the former truth, Where ever holinesse is, it fits the heart to love God above all. Canst thou doe this, which holinesse enables a man to doe? then if there be holinesse in heaven, it is also in thine heart. I doe not meane, that any man should have the exactnesse that Adam had in creation; but what hee had in perfection, wee must have in desire. Thou must have an heart enlarged to love God above all, though thou hast many weaknesses with it. Many for want of this are cast out, as not being partakers of this saving worke: Namely