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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
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.
2. Would you answer the glorious Title of a Child of God with a more glorious and suitable Spirit, that you may pray as Children, walk as dear Children? come to God, not as Slaves, but as Children; and walk before God, not under the resemblance of the Spirit of Bondage, but with an ingenuous Liberty, and Freedom, as becomes the Heirs of Salvation: Pray for the Spirit of God; that he may be a Spirit of Adoption to you, as well as of Regeneration; pray in the Spirit for the Spirit, that you may have the frame of a Child, filled with Zeal for the Fathers Name and Interest: 'Tis the Spirit of Adoption that teaches us to cry Abba Father, Rom. 8.15. 'Tis the Spirit of God that gives us an inward freedom and liberty, 2 Cor. 3.17. Wh••e the Spirit of the Lord is, there's Liberty. This Spirit will not give you a liberty unto sin, but from it; nor from God, but with him: This Spirit will not break the Bonds of the Commandment, but tie up your hearts to it, and give you liberty and cheerfulness in it.
2. Would you answer the glorious Title of a Child of God with a more glorious and suitable Spirit, that you may pray as Children, walk as dear Children? come to God, not as Slaves, but as Children; and walk before God, not under the resemblance of the Spirit of Bondage, but with an ingenuous Liberty, and Freedom, as becomes the Heirs of Salvation: Pray for the Spirit of God; that he may be a Spirit of Adoption to you, as well as of Regeneration; pray in the Spirit for the Spirit, that you may have the frame of a Child, filled with Zeal for the Fathers Name and Interest: 'Tis the Spirit of Adoption that teaches us to cry Abba Father, Rom. 8.15. 'Tis the Spirit of God that gives us an inward freedom and liberty, 2 Cor. 3.17. Wh••e the Spirit of the Lord is, there's Liberty. This Spirit will not give you a liberty unto sin, but from it; nor from God, but with him: This Spirit will not break the Bonds of the Commandment, but tye up your hearts to it, and give you liberty and chearfulness in it.