A26687:139
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of godliness, both in person and families.
London : Printed for and sold by Nevil Simmons and Dorman Newman, 1673
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.
First, It is the very business you were made for, and sent into the world for, to please your Maker. For his pleasure you are, and were Created. Why should the Lord repent that he had made you? Gen. 6. 6 What treacherous and damnable falsehood is this, that when the Lord hath given us Breath and Being, and sent us into the World on purpose on his service, we should like false and wicked servants, set up for our selves? why should your Creator say, he hath made you in vain?
First, It is the very business you were made for, and sent into the world for, to please your Maker. For his pleasure you are, and were Created. Why should the Lord repent that he had made you? Gen. 6. 6 What treacherous and damnable falshood is this, that when the Lord hath given us Breath and Being, and sent us into the World on purpose on his service, we should like false and wicked servants, set up for our selves? why should your Creator say, he hath made you in vain?
Secondly, If you set your hearts to please the Lord, you are sure you shall please him. It is not so with men, all the care in the World will not suffice to please some men. How often do Princes forsake their greatest Favourites? so that if you set ⟨p. 56⟩to please men, you are not sure to attain your end at last; yea, rather you are sure not to attain it. But if the Lord doth see your very hearts be set to please him, he will accept you, though you come short, 2 Cor. 8. 12. Read that sweet passage, 2 Chron. 6. 75.