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A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast
A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feast wherein thou mayst taste and see those things which God hath prepared for them that love him / By R. Sibs ...A glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast wherein thou mayst taste and see those things which God hath prepared for them that love him / By R. Sibs ...
London: printed by E. G. for John Rothwell, 1638London: printed by E. G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1638
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.
Not that we love God first, and then God prepares these things for us: but God prepares them, and acquaints us what he means to do with us, and then we love him. A christian knows before, what title he hath in Christ to Heaven, and then he works: he knows Christ hath wrought salvation for him, and then he works out his salvation in a course tending to salvation in a course tending to salvation: for there must be working ⟨p. 6⟩in a course tending to the possession of salvation, that CHRIST hath purchased, we must not work, and think by it to merit Heaven: we know we have Heaven, and those great things in the Title of Christ, and then we fall on loving, and working. There is a clean contrary order, between us, and those mercenaries, they invert the order of God, for, for whom God hath prepared these things, he discovers them to the eye of faith, and then faith works by love: this I add by the way.
Not that we love God first, and then God prepares these things for us: but God prepares them, and acquaints us what he meanes to doe with us, and then we love him. A christian knowes before, what title he hath in Christ to Heaven, and then he works: he knowes Christ hath wrought salvation for him, and then he workes out his salvation in a course tending to salvation in a course tending to salvation: for there must be working ⟨p. 6⟩in a course tending to the possession of salvation, that CHRIST hath purchased, wee must not worke, and thinke by it to merit Heaven: wee know wee have Heaven, and those great things in the Title of Christ, and then wee fall on loving, and working. There is a cleane contrary order, betweene us, and those mercinaries, they invert the order of God, for, for whom God hath prepared these things, hee discovers them to the eye of faith, and then faith works by love: this I adde by the way.
Now he sets down this description of those persons for whom these excellent things are prepared, by this ⟨p. 7⟩