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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.
What an endearing obligation is this to obey! That he will be the Author of Eternal Salvation to them that obey him! Inasmuch as, while our obedience cannot merit the least thing from him, yet his vouchsafing to govern us doth most highly merit from us. For he Governs by writing his Law in the heart, which makes our heart agree with the Law, and by implanting Divine Love in us, which vanquishes enmity and disaffection, and virtually contains in its self our obedience, or keeping his Commandments, Joh. 14.15. and 23. 1 Joh. 5.3. Therefore this Government of his, over us, is naturally necessary to our Salvation and blessedness, and is the inchoation and beginning of it; as our perfected Love to God, and conformity ⟨p. 103⟩to his Nature, and will, do involve and contain in themselves our complete and perfect blessedness, with which a continued enmity, or a rebellious, mutinous disposition against God, is naturally inconsistent; and would be to us, and in us, a perpetual, everlasting Hell.
What an endearing obligation is this to obey! That he will be the Author of Eternal Salvation to them that obey him! Inasmuch as, while our obedience cannot merit the least thing from him, yet his vouchsafing to govern us doth most highly merit from us. For he Governs by writing his Law in the heart, which makes our heart agree with the Law, and by implanting Divine Love in us, which vanquishes enmity and disaffection, and vertually contains in its self our obedience, or keeping his Commandments, Joh. 14.15. and 23. 1 Joh. 5.3. Therefore this Government of his, over us, is naturally necessary to our Salvation and blessedness, and is the inchoation and beginning of it; as our perfected Love to God, and conformity ⟨p. 103⟩to his Nature, and will, do involve and contain in themselves our compleat and perfect blessedness, with which a continued enmity, or a rebellious, mutinous disposition against God, is naturally inconsistent; and would be to us, and in us, a perpetual, everlasting Hell.