3. If thou have but one spark of saving grace, it is not possible for thee now to conceive or express the happiness of thy state, and the cause thou hast to live a thankful joyous life. If thou have no grace, thou art not the person that I am now speaking to. If thou have no grace, whence is it that thou so much desirest it? What is it that causeth thee to lament the want of it, and walk so heavily, but because thou art so much in doubt of it? If thou truly Love it, thou hast it, (for it is only grace that causeth an unfeigned Love of grace). And if thou love it not, why canst not thou more quietly be without it? Why dost thou make so much ado for it? But if thou have it in the least degree, and so art born again of the spirit, thou hast with it an unspeakable treasure of delights: The God of Life and Love is thine: The ⟨p. 362⟩Lord Jesus Christ is thine: The Spirit is thine: The promises are thine: and Heaven it self is thine in title, and shall be thine in full perpetual possession. The God that made and ruleth all things, is Reconciled to thee, and is thy Father, having by grace in Christ adopted thee to be his Son; Rom. 5. 1, 2, 10, 11. & 8. 1, 16, 17. Gal. 4. 6. 2 Cor. 6. 18. The Son of God is become thy Head, and thou art become a member of his body, as flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, (which no man ever yet hath hated) Ephes. 5. 23, 27, 29, 30. Thou art become the Temple and residence of the Holy Ghost. Thy title to Heaven is incomparably more sure, then any mans humane title to his possessions or inheritance on earth: And what rejoicing can be too great for a man in thy condition? O what a Life should that man live? with what sweet delight should he be transported, that hath the Spirit of Christ now living in him, to prepare him and seal him up for an endless life with Christ? He that shall be shortly so full of joy, should not be empty now when he remembereth what he must shortly be. Doth it beseem him now to dwell in grief, and refuse consolation, that must in a few days be swallowed up with Joy? If thou that fittest here in heaviness, wert assured that shortly thou shouldst be with Christ, and made a blessed companion of Angels, and possessed of thy Masters joy, a joy that hath no bounds or end, would not thy Conscience then tell thee, that thou greatly wrongest such abundant mercy, in that thou art no more affected with it?
3. If thou have but one spark of saving grace, it is not possible for thee now to conceive or express the happiness of thy state, and the cause thou hast to live a thankful jeyous life. If thou have no grace, thou art not the person that I am now speaking to. If thou have no grace, whence is it that thou so much desirest it? What is it that causeth thee to lament the want of it, and walk so heavily, but because thou art so much in doubt of it? If thou truly Love it, thou hast it, (for it is only grace that causeth an unfeigned Love of grace). And if thou love it not, why canst not thou more quietly be without it? Why dost thou make so much ado for it? But if thou have it in the least degree, and so art born again of the spirit, thou hast with it an unspeakable treasure of delights: The God of Life and Love is thine: The ⟨p. 362⟩Lord Jesus Christ is thine: The Spirit is thine: The promises are thine: and Heaven it self is thine in title, and shall be thine in full perpetual possession. The God that made and ruleth all things, is Reconciled to thee, and is thy Father, having by grace in Christ adopted thee to be his Son; Rom. 5. 1, 2, 10, 11. & 8. 1, 16, 17. Gal. 4. 6. 2 Cor. 6. 18. The Son of God is become thy Head, and thou art become a member of his body, as flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone, (which no man ever yet hath hated) Ephes. 5. 23, 27, 29, 30. Thou art become the Temple and residence of the Holy Ghost. Thy title to Heaven is incomparably more sure, then any mans humane title to his possessions or inheritance on earth: And what rejoycing can be too great for a man in thy condition? O what a Life should that man live? with what sweet delight should he be transported, that hath the Spirit of Christ now living in him, to prepare him and seal him up for an endless life with Christ? He that shall be shortly so full of joy, should not be empty now when he remembreth what he must shortly be. Doth it beseem him now to dwell in grief, and refuse consolation, that must in a few dayes be swallowed up with Joy? If thou that fittest here in heaviness, wert assured that shortly thou shouldst be with Christ, and made a blessed companion of Angels, and possessed of thy Masters joy, a joy that hath no bounds or end, would not thy Conscience then tell thee, that thou greatly wrongest such abundant mercy, in that thou art no more affected with it?
