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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
MISCELLANIES. › Section 2: II. A preparative to the Lords Supper.
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2. If the Lord should take away all these, and the Word take place, and pull away all these distempers, and then the soul finds a restlessness until the Lord pluck them away from him.
2. If the Lord should take away all these, and the Word take place, and pull away all these distempers, and then the soule findes a restlesnesse untill the Lord pluck them away from him.
3. Whether the soul is willing, and strives much, and contends sadly that it may be content that the Lord should ⟨p. 358⟩take all that outward excellency from him, that is so much prized by him: If he prize wealth, to be content that God should make him a beggar; if he prize his credit, content that God should cover him with shame; if he prize his parts and gifts, content that God should make him lye in the dust. Whatever the soul is not content to part withal (if it be a temporal thing) that is a way of lying, and he loves it immoderately. Oh where is that man that can bear contempt, that can bear poverty, and is willing to be left under the table, and to be made base in the eyes of the world! He that would hold any thing that he is not content the Word should take away, it is certain, ⟨p. 359⟩that that is the king, and the master, and the commander of the heart.
3. Whether the soule is willing, and strives much, and contends sadly that it may be content that the Lord should ⟨p. 358⟩take all that outward excellency from him, that is so much prized by him: If hee prize wealth, to bee content that God should make him a begger; if he prize his credit, content that God should cover him with shame; if hee prize his parts and gifts, content that God should make him lye in the dust. Whatever the soul is not content to part withall (if it be a temporall thing) that is a way of lying, and he loves it imoderately. Oh where is that man that can beare contempt, that can beare poverty, and is willing to be left under the table, and to bee made base in the eyes of the world! Hee that would hold any thing that he is not content the Word should take away, it is certaine,