A37049:614
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
7. There should be Engaging, in the Lively Exercise of Faith; drawing Strength from Jesus Christ, according to His own promise; and of our selves to make use of him, for that end: Yea, that should be Laid for the Foundation of our undertaking: Therefore every such engaging, is a Covenanting with God, and there is no Covenanting with Him, but by interposing of Jesus Christ, both for the procuring of Pardon for by-past failings and guilt; and for Grace and Strength, to perform, called-for, and engaged into Duties, •or the Future. See a frame of Spirit, •it for Covenanting, when seriously and suitably gone about, Jer. 50.4.5.
7. There should be Ingaging, in the Lively Exercise of Faith; drawing Strength from Jesus Christ, according to His own promise; and of our selves to make use of him, for that end: Yea, that should be Laid for the Foundation of our undertaking: Therefore every such ingaging, is a Covenanting with God, and there is no Covenanting with Him, but by interposing of Jesus Christ, both for the procuring of Pardon for by-past failings and guilt; and for Grace and Strength, to perform, called-for, and ingaged into Duties, •or the Future. See a frame of Spirit, •it for Covenanting, when seriously and suitably gone about, Jer. 50.4.5.
Concerning these Engagements, we say. 2. That they are of themselves Obligatory, and binding to those who come under them, as Numb. 30.2, 3. Vowing is called the Binding of a Man's Soul; And Psal. 36.12. it's said, Thy Vows are upon me, O Lord, as pressing him with a Weight, till they were payed.