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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.
To prove which, the Apostle offers a double security.
1. From the Election and fore-knowledge of God. The Lord knoweth them that are his: Verba sensûs & intellectus ponunt affectum & effectum, is a known Rule, to understand Scripture by. God does not only ⟨image 51⟩know his People, as he does all other men, and all other Creatures in the World; but he hath a special eye upon every one of them, and a special care for them as well as Love unto them; and this is as it were the Privy Seal which every Child of God may take for his security.
2. They have also a broad Seal, their Sanctification; which comparatively at least, is evident, for it is as a light set on a Candlestick, and is visible, more or less unto all; at least they may have the Testimony of a good Conscience,1 which is as a thousand Witnesses.
- 1• Cor. 1.12.