A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

And when it cost him so dear, that his vast power might be subservient to a design of •race, and thou must at last be saved by him, or lost for ever. What can tempt thee to stand out against such Power, and such Grace?

If thou wert to gratify thy ambition, how glorious a thing is it to be a Christian! a Subject, a Devoted Homager to so mighty a Prince! If to provide against thy necessity, and distress, what course can be so sure and successful, as to fly for refuge to so Compassionate a Saviour! And dost thou not know there must ⟨p. 94⟩be to this purpose, an express transaction between him and thee? Wonder he will condescend to it! To capitulate with Dust and Ashes! To Article with his own Creature, with whom he may do what he will! But his merciful condescension herein is declared and known. If there shall be a special Relation settled between him and thee, he hath told thee in what way it must be, i. e. by way of Covenant-transaction, and agreement, as he puts his People of old in mind, his way was with them; I entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, Ezek. 16.8. This I insist upon and press, as a thing of the greatest importance imaginable, and the least thought of: Nor the strange incongruity animadverted on, viz. That we have the seals of such a Covenant among ⟨p. 95⟩us, but the Covenant it self slips through our hands. Our Baptism soon after we were born, with some federal words then, is thought enough, as if we were a Nation of always Minors. Who ever therefore thou art, that hearest these words, or readest these Lines; know that the Great Lord is express towards thee in his Gospel proposal. Wilt thou accept me for thine, and resign thy self as mine? He now expects and requires thy express Answer. Take his Gospel as from the Cross, or take it as from the Throne, or as from both, 'tis the same Gospel interwoven of Grace and Authority, the richest Grace, and the highest Authority at once inviting and requiring thee to commit and submit thy self unto him. Take heed lest his Key turn before thou have given thy complying answer