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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.
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.
For the first, several questions are to be propounded and answered, and then the point will be cleared.
For the first, severall questions are to bee propounded and answered, and then the point will be cleered.
Quest. 1. Is it left unto a mans liberty to come, or not to come unto the Sacrament?
Answ. It is not a point of indifferency, it is a point of necessity, which the Lord layeth upon us as a duty, which God expecteth from us, if ⟨p. 362⟩God affords occasion with conveniency; it is a sin in us to do the contrary: I say, If God afford occasion with conveniency, nothing should detain us from coming; yet some straight may haply lie upon a man, that it were neither requisite nor reasonable for him then to press in to that duty. As,
Answ. It is not a point of indifferency, it is a point of necessity, which the Lord layeth upon us as a duty, which God expecteth from us, if ⟨p. 362⟩God affords occasion with conveniency; it is a sinne in us to doe the contrary: I say, If God afford occasion with conveniency, nothing should detain us from cōming; yet some straight may haply lie upon a man, that it were neither requisite nor reasonable for him then to presse in to that duty. As,