It's a safe way to view over these primitive and first impressions of the Lord upon the soul, and a principle of Grace received to renew and act over daily these first Editions, and Spiritual Dispositions imprinted upon the heart: they were first […] upon us but after Grace received, they may & should be […] by us, we should act them over again: This is the Advice and Direction which our Saviour so seasonably and so sadly leaves upon record upon the Conscience of his Disciples: When Peter was […] of his fall and denial of his Master,1 he also leaves this Receipt with him, […] his recovery after the wound taken, When thou art converted, strengthen thy Brethren, Luke, 22, 32. Peter was converted […] before, and called effectually unto Christ, and by faith made one with him; and this faith he did not, nay could not lose, for Christ prayed his faith should not fail: but in our falls, there is a weakening and blemishing of this work of Conversion, and an aversion in some measure left upon the soul, therefore we should labour a new Conversion, i. e. renew and act over the work of Conversion, be broken hearted, humbled, drawn to Christ afresh; and as necessary as the renewal of the act of faith, is the repairing and renewing of these acts also, for there is no going to Christ, if we go not out of sin and self. Hence again our Saviour, when he would take off, and reform that ambitious humour which had vented it self among the Disciples, when each man strove to be highest, one at the right hand, another at the left, the rest they disdained this […] pang; our Saviour applies this Receipt to […] this corruption, […]. 18. 2. 3. Jesus called a little Child, and set him: in the midst of them, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, unless ye be converted, and become as little Children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: The Disciples were called, and so converted, truly, savingly humbled, and yet they must renew and act over again these first impressions of the powerful operations of the ⟨p. 378⟩Spirit of God, be broken hearted, loosened from thy lusts as at the first, be abased and brought to nothing in thine own sense and apprehension as at the first, be drawn to Christ as at the first; and there is more reason and greater necessity of this, than men are readily aware of. For,
It's a safe way to view over these primitive and first impressions of the Lord upon the soul, and a principle of Grace received to renew and act over dayly these first Editions, and Spiritual Dispositions imprinted upon the heart: they were first 〈…〉 upon us but after Grace received, they may & should be 〈…〉 by us, we should act them over again: This is the Advice and Direction which our Savior so seasonably and so sadly leaves upon record upon the Conscience of his Disciples: When Peter was 〈…〉 of his fall and denyal of his Master,1 he also leaves this Receipt with him, 〈…〉 his recovery after the wound taken, When thou art converted, strengthen thy Brethren, Luke, 22, 32. Peter was converted 〈…〉 before, and called effectually unto Christ, and by faith made one with him; and this faith he did not, nay could not lose, for Christ prayed his faith should not fail: but in our fals, there is a weakening and blemishing of this work of Conversion, and an aversion in some measure left upon the soul, therefore we should labor a new Conversion, i. e. renew and act over the work of Conversion, be broken hearted, humbled, drawn to Christ afresh; and as necessary as the renewal of the act of faith, is the repairing and renewing of these acts also, for there is no going to Christ, if we go not out of sin and self. Hence again our Savior, when he would take off, and reform that ambitious humor which had vented it self among the Disciples, when each man strove to be highest, one at the right hand, another at the left, the rest they disdained this 〈…〉 pang; our Savior applies this Receipt to 〈…〉 this corruption, 〈…〉. 18. 2. 3. Jesus called a little Child, and set him: in the midst of them, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, unless ye be converted, and become as little Children, ye shal not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: The Disciples were called, and so converted, truly, savingly humbled, and yet they must renew and act over again these first impressions of the powerful operations of the ⟨p. 378⟩Spirit of God, be broken hearted, loosened from thy lusts as at the sirst, be abased and brought to nothing in thine own sence and apprehension as at the first, be drawn to Christ as at the first; and there is more reason and greater necessity of this, than men are readily aware of. For,
- 1Math. 18. 3.
