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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 4: Now is the time. OR, Instructions for the present improving the season of Grace. Serm. IV.
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The third part (which is that which I intend to insist upon) is the Apostle's Sect. 6 accommodation, or his application of the fore-going reason, taken out of Isa. 49.8. unto the present state and time of the Corinthians, by giving them this quickening Counsel; that since the present season of Grace which they enjoyed now was the accepted time and the day of Salvation promised unto Christ for his people, they should therefore now regard, and for the present improve it profitably. The sum of the Apostle's application is this; since God hath in the foregoing reason assigned a certain time and day for the exhibition and the bestowment of his Grace, it followeth, that all times and all days are not fitted for that purpose, but only the time and the day foretold by the Prophet, in which God would freely accept of sinners and bring them to Salvation; and therefore Paul putteth the Corinthians upon the present improvement of the season of Grace, because God had now bestowed upon them that accepted time and the day of Salvation foretold in the foregoing reason, which they could not neglect without hazarding the loss of Divine acceptation, and their own eternal Salvation.
The third part (which is that which I intend to insist upon) is the Apostle's Sect. 6 accommodation, or his application of the fore-going reason, taken out of Isa. 49.8. unto the present state and time of the Corinthians, by giving them this qui•kning Counsel; that since the present season of Grace which they enjoyed now was the accepted time and the day of Salvation promised unto Christ for his people, they should therefore now regard, and for the present improve it profitably. The sum of the Apostle's application is this; since God hath in the foregoing reason assigned a certain time and day for the exhibition and the bestowment of his Grace, it followeth, that all times and all days are not fitted for that purpose, but only the time and the day foretold by the Prophet, in which God would freely accept of sinners and bring them to Salvation; and therefore Paul putteth the Corinthians upon the present improvement of the season of Grace, because God had now bestowed upon them that accepted time and the day of Salvation foretold in the foregoing reason, which they could not neglect without hazarding the loss of Divine acceptation, and their own eternal Salvation.