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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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CHAP. XVIII. An Exhortation to bless God for the work of Regeneration. And to walk worthy thereof.
II. A Second branch of the Use of Exhortation unto the Regenerate, is To be thankful unto God for this great mercy. Admire the grace of God, and bless his name for ever. Art thou made alive? Is the life of God begotten in thee? And hast thou evidence of it? O bless God whilst▪thou hast any being. Let thine heart and mouth and life be filled with his Praises. Take up the Psalmists words,1 Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name: Bless the Lord O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Wilt thou be thankful unto God for thy natural birth? And wilt not thou be thankful to him for thy spiritual birth? wilt thou bless him for that he hath made thee a reasonable creature? And wilt thou not bless him for making thee a new-creature? wilt thou bless him that thou art not a Toad? And wilt thou not bless him, that thou art not a Devil? Is not Regeneration of all mercies the most necessary? And wilt not thou be thankful for that which is the one thing necessary? If the Children of Israel praised God for their deliverance from the Egyptian bondage; how much more cause hast thou to praise and magnify the name of God for thy deliverance from a greater than Egyptian bondage? It being a deliverance from Satan, the worst of all Tyrants: from hell, of all prisons the most loathsome: yea from sin, death, and the curse of the Law.
II. A Second branch of the Use of Exhortation unto the Regenerate, is To be thankfull unto God for this great mercy. Admire the grace of God, and bless his name for ever. Art thou made alive? Is the life of God begotten in thee? And hast thou evidence of it? O bless God whilest▪thou hast any being. Let thine heart and mouth and life be filled with his Praises. Take up the Psalmists words,1