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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 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
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.
If God hath given us the Earnest of this Reward, Answ. this Earnest is ⟨p. 70⟩his Spirito Ephes. 1.14. Ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise, which is the earnest of the Inheritance. Where God gives his Spirit for an Earnest, there he gives himself for a Portion: Christ gave the Purse to Judas, not his Spirit.
- oPignus redditur arrha retinetur. Hierom.
Quest. How shall we know we have Gods Spirit?
Answ. The Spirit carries influence along with itp, it consecrates the Heart, making it a Sacrary or Holy of Holies: it Sanctifies the Fancy, causing it to mint Holy Thoughts; it Sanctifies the Will, strongly by assing it to good: as Musk lying among Linen perfumes it; so the Spirit of God in the Soul perfumes it with Sanctity.
Answ. The Spirit carryes influence along with itp, it consecrates the Heart, making it a Sacrary or Holy of Holyes: it Sanctifies the Fancy, causing it to mint Holy Thoughts; it Sanctifies the Will, strongly by assing it to good: as Musk lying among Linnen perfumes it; so the Spirit of God in the Soul perfumes it with Sanctity.