Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels…

First, As to your persons or estates, it is necessary in general that you be in a state of reconciliation with God: If you would walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, you must first be friends with him: for how can two walk together except they be agreed? Get the controversy taken up between God and thee, and then shalt thou with Levi, walk with God ⟨p. 17⟩in peace. Labour to get the breaches made up, to have the enmity slain, to have divine displeasure removed: till thy pardon be obtained, and thy peace made, nothing thou canst do will please God: he will be angry with thy person, and angry with thy prayers: What a tart Message is that to impenitent sinners, Malach. 1. 10. God cannot take pleasure in their persons: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts] nor in any of their performances; neither will I accept an offering at your hand.] He professeth that his soul had no delight in them, and tells them they are unto him as a Vessel wherein there is no pleasure, Gen. 22. 28. It's the modest expression of that Vessel into which Nature empties it self. Come in then, and touch the golden Sceptre; yield to mercy; kiss the Son; resign to Christ: accept of the peace tendered you in the Word of Reconciliation, and then God will be friends. More particularly, that you may be in a state of reconciliation, and so in a capacity of pleasing God, you must follow these directions.

First, As to your persons or estates, it is necessary in general that you be in a state of reconciliation with God: If you would walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, you must first be friends with him: for how can two walk together except they be agreed? Get the controversie taken up between God and thee, and then shalt thou with Levi, walk with God ⟨p. 17⟩in peace. Labour to get the breaches made up, to have the enmity slain, to have divine displeasure removed: till thy pardon be obtained, and thy peace made, nothing thou canst do will please God: he will be angry with thy person, and angry with thy prayers: What a tart Message is that to impenitent sinners, Malach. 1. 10. God cannot take pleasure in their persons: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts] nor in any of their performances; neither will I accept an offering at your hand.] He professeth that his soul had no delight in them, and tells them they are unto him as a Vessel wherein there is no pleasure, Gen. 22. 28. It's the modest expression of that Vessel into which Nature empties it self. Come in then, and touch the golden Scepter; yield to mercy; kiss the Son; resign to Christ: accept of the peace tendred you in the Word of Reconciliation, and then God will be friends. More particularly, that you may be in a state of reconciliation, and so in a capacity of pleasing God, you must follow these directions.