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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 13: §. 13.THE PATERNE of perfection. › Section 13: §. 13.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
you must do your own business at home, and not neglect the opportunity before you.
you must doe your owne businesse at home, and not neglect the opportunity before you.
3. We must lay aside, yea, lay by those that are the best commodities, and most necessary. We see Trades-men need many things; but those things that are most profitable and necessary, they will be sure to have; and if their ⟨p. 279⟩purse will reach and hold out, they will buy other things afterward. He will buy bread now on the one side, and cloth on the other side: bread he must have for his family to feed them, and cloth he must have to clothe them; and if his money will hold out, then haply he will buy some lace, or a rattle for his child: So I say, you have the choice of all favours, and of all mercies; now provide that which is most necessary; First seek the Kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, Mat. 6.33. This is the main thing: it is of necessity that the soul should be saved. What is here meant by the Kingdom of God? Some say, It is the kingdom of glory; others, the kingdom of grace: but ⟨p. 280⟩how can a man seek the kingdom of glory, but first he must have the kingdom of grace before that of glory? And how shall a man attain to this? The Lord hath vouchsafed it to none, but to those that do seek it in his ordinances; it is to be had by the preaching of the Gospel of grace. Was there ever any man ordinarily converted, but by the Word of God?1 for Faith comes by hearing, &c. This Word is the word of the Kingdom; first seek that by which faith is bred, by which Christs righteousness is made ours; make this sure to thy soul: for this is that you cannot be without; this is that which David desired,