The Duty is Conversion unto God. Inchoative and Progressive Conversing. Entrance into, Continuance and Progress in, the State of Holiness. The State of Reconciliation unto, and Communion with God. With God the Father, Son, and Spirit; all jointly as One God; and each distinctly as Three Persons. Learned Men do judge this latter to be here designed, by the Plural Number of the Hebrew Word. All Interpreters acknowledge, that the required Remembrance imports no less than the foresaid Conversion: And it will be evident, if these things be considered Words of Knowledge, Affection, and Practice, do ever connote one the other. Because the Faculties of our Souls, be like the Links of a Chain; so united, that they go all together: Draw one, all come. Wherefore when the Holy Ghost summons all, he useth to name but one of them. He never ⟨image 196⟩commands us to Know, Remember, Love, or Serve God, but he commands us to do them all. Now to do all these, is to Convert unto God: And to do less, is not to Remember our Creator as he doth require. Besides, The Connection of End and Means is indispensable. Where any Means are required, it is certain the End of these Means is also required. And it is very plain that the mere Historical Remembrance of God, is but a Mean; Conversion foresaid, is the end of it: That End, without which, the Remembrance of God, could only make us the more like unto the Devil: Who indeed doth never Forget, but doth still Hate his Creator. And no mind can bear the thought of Gods requiring such a Remembrance. It must therefore be one, efficacious unto its End, that is here meant: Nor is it unworthy of our Notice, That the word [Creator] here is big with Argument: And such as carries Obligation unto the very utmost of the foresaid Conversion: For it speaks God's Interest in us. Were we made by him? Then were we also made for him, and are his; and not our own. It expresseth also his speciality of Interest in us; being (as we are elsewhere told,) he made us in his own Image: If so, he made us unquestionably for his especial Service. It no less setteth forth his Preservation of us too; for who but he who made us, should have Power or Will to maintain us? Briefly, it manifests his Power to destroy us; and his very good Reason so to do, if we do less, after our Apostasy and his Provision for our Recovery, than thus Convert unto him.
The Duty is Conversion unto God. Inchoative and Progressive Conversing. Entrance into, Continuance and Progress in, the State of Holiness. The State of Reconciliation unto, and Communion with God. With God the Father, Son, and Spirit; all joyntly as One God; and each distinctly as Three Persons. Learned Men do judge this latter to be here designed, by the Plural Number of the Hebrew Word. All Interpreters acknowledge, that the required Remembrance imports no less than the foresaid Conversion: And it will be evident, if these things be consider'd Words of Knowledge, Affection, and Practice, do ever connote one the other. Because the Faculties of our Souls, be like the Links of a Chain; so united, that they go all together: Draw one, all come. Wherefore when the Holy Ghost summons all, he useth to name but one of them. He never ⟨image 196⟩commands us to Know, Remember, Love, or Serve God, but he commands us to do them all. Now to do all these, is to Convert unto God: And to do less, is not to Remember our Creator as he doth require. Besides, The Connexion of End and Means is indispensable. Where any Means are required, it is certain the End of these Means is also required. And it is very plain that the meer Historical Remembrance of God, is but a Mean; Conversion foresaid, is the end of it: That End, without which, the Remembrance of God, could only make us the more like unto the Devil: Who indeed doth never Forget, but doth still Hate his Creator. And no mind can bear the thought of Gods requiring such a Remembrance. It must therefore be one, efficacious unto its End, that is here meant: Nor is it unworthy of our Notice, That the word [Creator] here is big with Argument: And such as carries Obligation unto the very utmost of the foresaid Conversion: For it speaks God's Interest in us. Were we made by him? Then were we also made for him, and are his; and not our own. It expresseth also his speciality of Interest in us; being (as we are elsewhere told,) he made us in his own Image: If so, he made us unquestionably for his especial Service. It no less setteth forth his Preservation of us too; for who but he who made us, should have Power or Will to maintain us? Briefly, it manifests his Power to destroy us; and his very good Reason so to do, if we do less, after our Apostacy and his Provision for our Recovery, than thus Convert unto him.
