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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 2: Quest. How may we Experience in our selves, and Evidence to others that serious Godline…
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2. As it shows the way to it, the terms on which it is to be obtained, sets before us Eternal Life as in Christ; it not only tells us of the thing it self, but shows how man, sinful man may attain to the enjoyment of it; declares true Holiness to be the way in which he is to walk, and Christ the Door by which he is to enter.
2. As it shews the way to it, the terms on which it is to be obtained, sets before us Eternal Life as in Christ; it not only tells us of the thing it self, but shews how man, sinfull man may attain to the enjoyment of it; declares true Holiness to be the way in which he is to walk, and Christ the Door by which he is to enter.
3. As it secures it upon those terms; for so it doth, it is the scope, and end of the Promise to secure Life and Glory to those that accept of it upon the terms propounded; the Command directs in the way, and the Promise makes over and conveys the blessing. Believe ⟨p. 39⟩and thou shalt be saved, Act. 16.31. So Joh. 3.16. and Rom. 2.7. To them that by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, and honour, and Immortality, Eternal life is promised. Now the Word and Promise of God not only as revealing Life to us, and the way to it, but as conveying it, is the ground of our Faith, and Hope; though without the Word we might have some more general Knowledge of a State of Happiness in the other World, yet without the Word we cannot know the way to it, nor ever attain to an Interest in it, nor have so full certainty of the very being of it as by the Word we have, the certainty of Faith being greater than that of any natural Knowledge whatever: we have no ground at all to believe we shall be saved but what the Promise affords us; And that is sufficient ground to build our Faith upon, and a better we cannot have than the Word of him that is the Truth it self, and so can neither deceive, nor be deceived, God that cannot lie hath promised Eternal life,