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A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A Confession of my Faith; and a reason of my practice in worship, &c. › Of Calling.
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.
Sauls call was out of the ordinary way, but yet as to the matter, and truth of the work, twas no other ⟨p. 34⟩then all the chosen have, viz.
1. An effectual awakening about the evil of sin, and especially of unbelief. Joh. 16.9. And therefore when the Lord God called Adam, he also made unto him, an effectual discovery of sin; insomuch that he stripped him of all his righteousness. Gen. 3. Thus he also served the Gealer. Yea it is such an awakening, as by it, he sees he was without Christ, without hope, and a stranger to the common-wealth of Israel, and without God in the word. Act. 16.29, 30. Eph, 2.12. Oh the dread and amazement that the guilt of sin brings with it, when tis revealed by the God of heaven: and like to it is the sight of mercy, when it pleaseth God, who calleth us by his grace, to reveal his son in us.
1. An effectual awakening about the evil of sin, and especially of unbelief. Joh. 16.9. And therefore when the Lord God called Adam, he also made unto him, an effectual discovery of sin; insomuch that he stript him of all his righteousness. Gen. 3. Thus he also served the Gealer. Yea it is such an awakening, as by it, he sees he was without Christ, without hope, and a stranger to the common-wealth of Israel, and without God in the word. Act. 16.29, 30. Eph, 2.12. Oh the dread and amazement that the guilt of sin brings with it, when tis revealed by the God of heaven: and like to it is the sight of mercy, when it pleaseth God, who calleth us by his grace, to reveal his son in us.