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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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Lord, make us truly apprehensive of our sins and misery, that we may humble our selves under a sense of them, and turn unto thee by true and unfeigned repentance. Turn us, O God, and we shall be turned, draw us, and we will run after thee. And, O Lord, whilst we are returning unto thee, meet us, we pray thee, in the way: and like a tender Father, embrace us with the arms of thy mercy. Our sins, we confess, are many and heinous, yet we know and believe thy mercies are far more, and the merits of Jesus Christ are far greater: and therefore we are resolved to adventure our souls, as upon the mercies of the• our God, so upon the merits of Jesus Christ, into whose arms we here cast our selves.
Lord, make us truly apprehensive of our sins and misery, that we may humble our selves under a sense of them, and turn unto thee by true and unfained repentance. Turn us, O God, and we shall be turned, draw us, and we will run after thee. And, O Lord, whilest we are returning unto thee, meet us, we pray thee, in the way: and like a tender Father, embrace us with the arms of thy mercy. Our sins, we confess, are many and hainous, yet we know and believe thy mercies are far more, and the merits of Jesus Christ are far greater: and therefore we are resolved to adventure our souls, as upon the mercies of the• our God, so upon the merits of Jesus Christ, into whose arms we here cast our selves.
Oh be pleased to make us partakers both of the merit of Christs death in freeing us from the guilt of sin, and of the virtue of Christs death in freeing us from the power and dominion of sin, that it may not rule and reign in us as formerly. Lord, work in us a loathing, and a true hatred of every sin, especially of such we have been most addicted to, and have most delighted in. To this end convince us what a folly, yea madness it is, for the short fruition of a momentany pleasure here, to implunge our selves into everlasting burnings. Oh convert every unconverted soul among us; bring us to Christ; make us adventurers for the other World: let us be resolved henceforth for an holy and righteous life: instruct us in thy ways, and teach us thy Statutes. Break the power of our sins,