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A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the…
A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadful condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and persuading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to householders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshua's resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof.A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadfull condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and perswading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to housholders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshuah's resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof.
London: printed for George Sawbridge, 1668
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1. Regeneration doth ennoble a man, raise him up towards his Original perfection. Man was made the noblest of all creatures in this visible World, in the image and likeness of God. Sin defaced the Image of God, and stamped the Image of the Devil upon him. A sinner is a man degenerated into a beast;1 Man being in honour abideth not, but is like the beasts that perish. He lives like a beast, and dies like a beast, not knowing whither he goeth. Every man is brutish in his knowledge. 2He hath a brutish ⟨p. 30⟩heart, lives a brutish life. By grace man comes to himself, is raised up from a beast to a man again, renewed after the Image of God; The spirit of glory and of God shines forth in him. There's more of the glory of God seen in a Saint, than in all the works of God under the Sun: nay than in the glorious Sun in the Heavens.3 The Sun, Moon, and Stars fall short of the glory of the new-creature.
1. Regeneration doth enoble a man, raise him up towards his Original perfection. Man was made the noblest of all creatures in this visible World, in the image and likeness of God. Sin defaced the Image of God, and stamped the Image of the Devil upon him. A sinner is a man degenerated into a beast;1 Man being in honour abideth not, but is like the beasts that perish. He lives like a beast, and dies like a beast, not knowing whither he goeth. Every man is brutish in his knowledge. 2He hath a brutish ⟨p. 30⟩heart, lives a brutish life. By grace man comes to himself, is raised up from a beast to a man again, renewed after the Image of God; The spirit of glory and of God shines forth in him. There's more of the glory of God seen in a Saint, than in all the works of God under the Sun: nay than in the glorious Sun in the Heavens.