The Fountain of Life Opened

Secondly, As the gracious soul is his creature, so it is his redeemed creature. One that he hath bought, and that with a great price. Even with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 1.18. This greatly encourages the departing soul, to commit it self into the hands of God, so you find, Psal. 31.5. Into thy hands I commend my Spirit, thou hast redeemed it, O Lord God of truth. Surely this is mighty encouragement, to put it self upon God in a dying hour. Lord, I am not only thy creature, but thy redeemed creature. One that thou hast bought with a great price. O I have cost thee dear. For my sake Christ came from thy bosom, and is it imaginable that after thou hast in such a costly way, even by the expense of the precious blood of Christ redeemed me; thou shouldst at last exclude me. Shall the ends both of Creation, and Redemption of this soul be lost together? Will God form such an excellent creature as my soul is, in which are so many wonders of the wisdom and power of its Creator? Will he be content when sin had marred the frame, and defaced the glory of it, to recover it to himself again by the death of his own dear Son, and after all this cast it away, as if there were nothing in all this? Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit. I know thou wilt have a respect to the work of thy hands. Especially to a redeemed creature, upon which thou hast been out so great sums of Love; which thou hast bought at so dear a rate.

Secondly, As the gratious soul is his creature, so it is his redeemed creature. One that he hath bought, and that with a great price. Even with the pretious blood of Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 1.18. This greatly encourages the departing soul, to commit it self into the hands of God, so you find, Psal. 31.5. Into thy hands I commend my Spirit, thou hast redeemed it, O Lord God of truth. Surely this is mighty encouragement, to put it self upon God in a dying hour. Lord, I am not only thy creature, but thy redeemed creature. One that thou hast bought with a great price. O I have cost thee dear. For my sake Christ came from thy bosom, and is it imaginable that after thou hast in such a costly way, even by the expence of the pretious blood of Christ redeemed me; thou shouldst at last exclude me. Shall the ends both of Creation, and Redemption of this soul be lost together? Will God form such an excellent creature as my soul is, in which are so many wonders of the wisdom and power of its Creator? Will he be content when sin had marr'd the frame, and defaced the glory of it, to recover it to himself again by the death of his own dear Son, and after all this cast it away, as if there were nothing in all this? Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit. I know thou wilt have a respect to the work of thy hands. Especially to a redeemed creature, upon which thou hast been out so great sums of Love; which thou hast bought at so dear a rate.