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

Give not over pleading with thy self, with thy wayward stupid heart, till it can say to him, "Lord, I •ield, thou hast overcome. Till with tender relentings thou hast thrown thy self at his feet, & told him, Lord, I am ashamed, I am confounded within my self, that thou shouldst Die upon a Cross to obtain thy high Power, and that thou art now ready to use it for the saving so vile a miscreant as I! That when thou hast so vast an unknown World, so numberless myriads of excellent Creatures in thy obedience, thou shouldst yet think it worth thy while to look after me! and that I should so long have withstood thy kind and gracious overtures and intendments! O forgive my ⟨p. 97⟩wicked aversion! I now accept and resign.

And now this being sincerely done, with fullness of consent, with deep humility, with yearning bowels, with unfeigned thankfulness, and an inward complacency, and gladness of Heart.

And now this being sincerely done, with fulness of consent, with deep humility, with yearning bowels, with unfeigned thankfulness, and an inward complacency, and gladness of Heart.

6. Let your following course in this World be ordered agreeably hereto, in continued dependence, and subjection. As we have received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so we are to walk in him, Col. 2.6. Take him according to the Titles here given him, as Christ —, a Person anointed, authorized, qualified to be both, Jesus, a Saviour, so we are to walk (according to our first reception of him,) in continual dependence on his Saving Mercy, and and to be a Lord, or as 'tis here expressed with eminency, the Lord, so we are to walk in continual subjection