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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 98⟩to his Governing Power. Otherwise our receiving him, at first, under these notions, hath nothing in it but mockery and collusion.
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 exprest with eminency, the Lord, so we are to walk in continual subjection ⟨p. 98⟩to his Governing Power. Otherwise our receiving him, at first, under these notions, hath nothing in it but mockery and collusion.
But if his obtaining these Keys, upon the terms here expressed, as having been dead, and now living, and having overcome Death (as 'tis also Rom. 14.9.) did signify his having them for saving purposes, as it must, since for other purposes, he had them sufficiently before; and if we reckoned this a reasonable inducement to receive him, and commit and intrust our selves to him as a Saviour, that he died, and overcame Death? for his Grace in yielding to Die, had not rendered him a competent object of trust, otherwise than in conjunction with his Power in overcoming Death, and so gaining into his hands these