The application of redemption

First the Converted are hereby to be provoked to §1follow the dealing of the Lord: Here is a pattern to order their daily practice by. Hath God, doth God deal so with poor Creatures as to draw them from their sins to […] Christ? Go thy ways, and do thou likewise. Herein show your selves Children ¹of your heavenly Father, be merciful as he is merciful. And if in any case, I take it, Mercy is herein to be discerned, ought to be practised and expressed. As the Elect of God put on bowels of mercy, Col. 4. 11. If you be the Elect of God show it in this, if ever you have received Mercy express it, if ever God hath showed favour to you, show the fruit thereof in showing compassion to others: put too the best of your endeavours, even by a holy kind of violence to pluck away poor sinners from their sins, unto the Lord. So David, Psal. 51. 13. I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be Converted unto thee: I will take no nay at their hands, they are stubborn, I was so; they resist, I did so; they are unwilling to part with their sins, I was so; and yet the Lord hath done me good, and ⟨p. 445⟩overcome all my evil with goodness, when I was in my blood, when I lay weltering in the guilt and filth of my sins, when I said I would have my sins and I would die, and was resolved to destroy my self, then he said unto me, Live poor Creature, Live: You cannot get your heart away from your Corruptions, the Lord will do it for you, nay he can do it for you without you; If he will put forth the same power upon your soul as he hath done upon my soul you shall be drawn from your sins to Jesus Christ. In a word.

First the Converted are hereby to be provoked to §1follow the dealing of the Lord: Here is a pattern to order their daily practice by. Hath God, doth God deal so with poor Creatures as to draw them from their sins to 〈…〉 Christ? Go thy wayes, and do thou likewise. Herein shew your selves Children