Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…

And it is no contemptible part of your benefits, that you may live among his people, and in their special love, and have a special Communion with them, and interest in their prayers, & may possess among them the privileges of the Saints, and the Ordinances of God: That in stead of idle talk, and the unprofitable fellowship of the children and works of darkness, you may join with the Church of God in his Praises, and feed with them at his table on the body and blood of Christ, and then have conveyances of renewed grace, and a renewed pardon sealed to your Souls: But how long should I stay. if I should tell you but one half the blessings of a Sanctified and spiritual state? In a word, God would be yours, Christ would be yours, the Holy Ghost would be yours, all ⟨p. 72⟩things would be yours; the whole world would have some relation to your welfare: Devils would be subdued to you, and cast out of your Souls; sin would be both pardoned and overcome; Angels would be ministering spirits unto you for your good: The promises of Scripture would be yours; and everlasting Glory would at last be yours; and while you staid on earth, you might comfort your selves as oft as you would, with the believing foresight of that unconceivable, unspeakable, endless felicity.

And it is no contemptible part of your benefits, that you may live among his people, and in their speciall love, and have a speciall Communion with them, and interest in their prayers, & may possess among them the priviledges of the Saints, and the Ordinances of God: That in stead of idle talk, and the unprofitable fellowship of the children and works of darkness, you may joyne with the Church of God in his Praises, and feed with them at his table on the body and blood of Christ, and then have conveyances of renewed grace, and a renewed pardon sealed to your Souls: But how long should I stay. if I should tell you but one half the blessings of a Sanctified and spirituall state? In a word, God would be yours, Christ would be yours, the Holy Ghost would be yours, all ⟨p. 72⟩things would be yours; the whole world would have some relation to your wellfare: Devils would be subdued to you, and cast out of your Soules; sinne would be both pardoned and overcome; Angels would be ministring spirits unto you for your good: The promises of Scripture would be yours; and everlasting Glory would at last be yours; and while you staid on earth, you might comfort your selves as oft as you would, with the believing foresight of that unconceiveable, unspeakable, endless felicity.