A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed showing wherein its enmity…A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity…

Quest. 3. Yea hath not Christ already subdued so many of thy enemies, as may assure thee he will subdue the rest? and begun that life in thee, which may assure thee of eternal life? Once thou wast a despiser of God and his holy ways: but now it is far otherwise with thee? Hath he not broken the heart of thy pride and worldliness, and sensuality and made thee a new creature? and is not this a pledge that he will do the rest? Tell me plainly, hadst thou rather keep thy sin, or leave it? Hadst thou rather have liberty to commit it, or be delivered from it? Dost thou not hate it, and set thy self against it as thy enemy? Art thou not delivered from the ⟨p. 179⟩reign and tyranny of it, which thou wast once under? And will not he perfect the conquest which he hath begun? He that hath thus far delivered thee from sin, thy greatest enemy, will deliver thee from all the sad effects of it. The blessed work of the Spirit in thy Conversion, did deliver thee from the bondage of the Devil, from the power of darkness, and translated thee into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ; Then didst thou enter the holy warfare, under his banners that was never overcome, in the victorious Army that shall shortly begin their everlasting triumph. The sin which thou hatest and longest to be delivered from, and art willing to use Gods means against it, is the conquered enemy, which may assure thee of a full and final conquest, supposing that thy hatred is against all known sin, & that there is none so sweet or profitable in thy ⟨p. 180⟩account. which thou hadst not far rather leave then keep.

Quest. 3. Yea hath not Christ already subdued so many of thy enemies, as may assure thee he will subdue the rest? and begun that life in thee, which may assure thee of eternal life? Once thou wast a despiser of God and his holy wayes: but now it is far otherwise with thee? Hath he not broken the heart of thy pride and worldliness, and sensuality and made thee a new creature? and is not this a pledge that he will do the rest? Tell me plainly, hadst thou rather keep thy sin, or leave it? Hadst thou rather have liberty to commit it, or be delivered from it? Dost thou not hate it, and set thy self against it as thy enemy? Art thou not delivered from the ⟨p. 179⟩reign and tyranny of it, which thou wast once under? And will not he perfect the conquest which he hath begun? He that hath thus far delivered thee from sin, thy greatest enemy, will deliver thee from all the sad effects of it. The blessed work of the Spirit in thy Conversion, did deliver thee from the bondage of the Devil, from the power of darkness, and translated thee into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ; Then didst thou enter the holy warfare, under his banners that was never overcome, in the victorious Army that shall shortly begin their everlasting triumph. The sin which thou hatest and longest to be delivered from, and art willing to use Gods means against it, is the conquered enemy, which may assure thee of a full and finall conquest, supposing that thy hatred is against all known sin, & that there is none so sweet or profitable in thy