A27107:300
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The second means to enjoy this object is by having an immediate and an eternal Communion with God in heaven. This we have, first by being (as members of Christ) united to his Manhood, and by the Manhood (personally united to the World) we are united to him, as he is God: and (by his God-head) to the whole Trinity. Reprobates at the last day shall see God (as a just Judge) to punish them; but (for lack of this Communion) they shall have neither grace with him, nor glory from him. For want of this Communion, the Devils (when they saw Christ) cryed out Quid nobis tecum? what have we to do with thee, •O Son of the most high God? 1but (by virtue of this Communion) the penitent So•l may boldly go and say unto Christ, 2(as Ruth unto Boaz:) Spread, O Christ, the wing of the garment of thy mercy over thine handmaid; for thou art my kinsman. 3This Communion God promised Abraham, when he gave him himself for his great reward;4 And Christ prayeth for his whole Church to obtain it. This Communion Saint Paul expresseth in one word, saying, That God shall be all in all unto us. 5Indeed God is now all in all unto us; but by means, and in a sm•ll measure• But in •eaven, God himself immediately (in fullness of measure, without all […]) will be unto us all the good things▪ […] sou• and bodies can with or desire. He […] ⟨p. 90⟩self will be salvation and joy to our souls, life and health to our bodies, beauty to our eyes, music to our ears, honey to our mouths, perfume to our nostrils, meat to our bellies, light to our understanding, contentment to our wills, and delight to our hearts; And what can be lacking, where God himself will be the