Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

(2.) An Exhortation unto the Choice and Prosecution of saving Religion. This is in my Text: Wherein it is guarded with an admirable Prolepsis, preventive of all shifts and procrastinations. And in the next Words and Verses, is reinforced with numerous Arguments: Arguments, as many as Old Age hath Maladies, and as Unprepared Death hath Terrors. And these all clothed with Language, hardly to be matched in all the Sacred Writings. But I must confine me to my Text, Wherein are obvious, 1. The Duty commanded to be done. 2. The Parties commanded to do it. 3. The Time wherein they are commanded to do it.

(2.) An Exhortation unto the Choice and Prosecution of saving Religion. This is in my Text: Wherein it is guarded with an admirable Prolepsis, preventive of all shifts and procrastinations. And in the next Words and Verses, is reinforced with numerous Arguments: Arguments, as many as Old Age hath Maladies, and as Ʋnprepared Death hath Terrors. And these all cloathed with Language, hardly to be matched in all the Sacred Writings. But I must confine me to my Text, Wherein are obvious, 1. The Duty commanded to be done. 2. The Parties commanded to do it. 3. The Time whe•ein they are commanded to do it.

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⟩