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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 6: Quest. How a Child of God is to keep himself in the Love of God. SERMON VI.
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.
The Scripture is full of this Language.
There is no higher Act of Love in God, than to espouse a People to be his own, and to give them a Rule of Worship of his own Institution, and to hold them to it, as he did Israel: And when a People follows God, and serves God according to his own appointments, there are no higher Acts of Love towards him in Gods account. ⟨p. 140⟩God is enamoured with such a People,1 he calls them his Hephsibah, and his Beulah, Isa. 62.4.
- 1God in his highest acts of jealousy was enraged against his Idolatrous people. Psal. 78.59. They kissed their Idols, giving them all the tokens of Love and Homage. 1 King. 19.18. Job 31.27. They burnt their Children to them as the costlyest Sacrifice: as Abraham would his Isaac in Love to God: but God only tried him by it. Mark 7.7. Colos. 2.22. Mat. 15.2, 3, 6. Rev. 17.4, 5.God in his highest acts of jealousie was inraged against his Idolatrous people. Psal. 78.59. They kissed their Idols, giving them all the tokens of Love and Homage.