The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

and by abundance of evident, uncontrolled Miracles, and gifts, to be the great witness of Christ, and of the truth of his holy Word. 7. Where the Gospel is made known, the HOLY SPIRIT doth by it illuminate the minds of such as shall be saved, and opening and softening their hearts, doth draw them to believe in Christ, and turneth them from the power of Satan unto God: Whereupon they are joined to Christ the Head, and into the Holy Catholic Church which is his Body, consisting of all true Believers, and are freely justified and made the Sons of God, and a sanctified peculiar people unto him, and do Love him above all, and serve him sincerely in holiness and righteousness, loving and desiring the Communion of Saints, overcoming the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, and living in Hope of the coming of Christ, and of Everlasting life. 8. At death the Souls of the Justified go to Happiness with Christ, and the Souls of the wicked to misery: And at the end of this World, the Lord Jesus Christ will come again, and will raise the Bodies of all men from the dead, and will judge all the World according to the good or ⟨p. 223⟩evil which they have done:¹ And the righteous shall go into Everlasting Life, where they shall see Gods Glory, and being perfected in Holiness, shall love and praise and please him perfectly, and be loved by him for evermore; and the Wicked shall go into Everlasting punishment with the Devil. II. According to this Belief we do deliberately and seriously by unfeigned consent of Will, take this One God,² the infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for our only God, our reconciled Father, our Saviour and our Sanctifier, and resolvedly give up our selves to him accordingly; entering into his Church under the hands of his Ministers, by the solemnization of this Covenant in the Sacrament of Baptism. And in prosecution of this Covenant, we proceed to stir up our DESIRES by daily PRAYER to God in the Name of Christ, by the help of the Holy Spirit, in the order following: 1. We desire the glorifying and hallowing of the Name of God, that he may be known, and loved, and honoured by the World, and may be well-pleased in us, and we may delight in Him which is our ultimate end. 2. That his Kingdom of Grace may be enlarged, and his Kingdom of Glory as to the Perfected Church of the sanctified, may come: