The Fountain of Life Opened

O Brethren, never was the Heathen world acquainted with such arguments to deter them from sin, never acquainted with such motives to urge them to holiness; as I shall this day acquaint you with. My request is, to give up both your hearts and lives to glorify the Father, Son, and Spirit, whose you are, by the holiness and heavenliness of them. Other things are expected from you, than from other men. See that you turn not all this grace that hath founded in your ears, into wantonness. Think not because Christ hath done so much for you, you may sit still; much less indulge your selves in sin, because Christ hath offered up such an excellent sacrifice for the expiation of it. No, no, though Christ came to be a Curse, he did not come to be a a Cloak for your sins. If one died for all then were all dead; ¹that they that live, should not henceforth live to themselves; but to him that died for them, 2 Cor. 5.15. O keep your lives pure and clean. Don't make fresh work for the blood of Christ every day. If you live in the Spirit, see that you walk in the Spirit, Gal. 5.25. That is (saith Cornelius à Lapide very solidly.) Let us shape and order ⟨p. 603⟩our lives and actions according to the dictates, instinct and impulses of the Spirit, and of that grace of the Spirit put within us, and planted in our hearts, which tendeth to practical holiness. Oh let the grace which is in your hearts, issue out into all your Religious, Civil, and natural actions. Let the Faith that is in your hearts, appear in your prayers. The Obedience of your hearts, in hearing. The Meekness of your hearts in suffering. The Mercifulness of your hearts, in distributing. The Truth and Righteousness of your hearts, in trading. The Sobriety and Temperance of your hearts, in eating and drinking.

O Brethren, never was the Heathen world acquainted with such arguments to deter them from sin, never acquainted with such motives to urge them to holiness; as I shall this day acquaint you with. My request is, to give up both your hearts and lives to glorifie the Father, Son, and Spirit, whose you are, by the holiness and heavenliness of them. Other things are expected from you, than from other men. See that you turn not all this grace that hath founded in your ears, into wantonness. Think not because Christ hath done so much for you, you may sit still; much less indulge your selves in sin, because Christ hath offered up such an excellent sacrifice for the expiation of it. No, no, though Christ came to be a Curse, he did not come to be a a Cloak for your sins. If one died for all then were all dead;