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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 5: Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
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.
Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
2 TIM. II. 19. And let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity.
1This Epistle was wrote by St. Paul to his Son Timothy (whom he had begot in the Faith,) as his fatherly Blessing a little before his death; for he was at the writing of it in bonds, Ch. 1. vers. 8. and he had finished his course. Ch. 4. v. 7. This very Paul whom God had so miraculously delivered at Damascus, 2and at Philippi, and where not?—for whosoever reads the Catalogue of his sufferings, 1 Cor. 11.26. may wonder how so many evils could befall any one man; but as they did abound, deliverance did proportionably abound: yet now when God had no further work for him to do, he calls his Servant home to receive his wages; and being so near the end of his Race,3 Paul stretches out his hand, for the prize of his high calling in Christ Jesus.
1THis Epistle was wrote by St. Paul to his Son Timothy (whom he had begot in the Faith,) as his fatherly Blessing a little before his death; for he was at the writing of it in bonds, Ch. 1. vers. 8. and he had finished his course. Ch. 4. v. 7. This very Paul whom God had so miraculously delivered at Damascus, 2