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A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…
A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and most gracious Queen Mary, of most blessed memory by John Howe.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1695
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.
Perfection taken in the Moral Sense, doth, in the Language of the Holy Scriptures, contain a threefold Gradation.
First, At the lowest, Sincerity; as when our Saviour proposes to that Querist, Mat. 19. 21. if he would be perfect, to sell all he had, and give to the Poor, following him, with the Expectation of no other Recompense but of a Treasure in Heaven. If a Man's Soul be not in a Disposition to comport with such Terms, upon a sufficient Signification of our Lord's Pleasure, that he shall now do so; or if at any Time this be the Case, that he must either forgo all this World, and even Life it self, or else renounce Christ and Christianity, he is not yet in a right Posture towards his last End. He hath not taken the Lord for his God and best Good, his Heart more strongly adheres to this present World. But if he have arrived hither, which is his first Step, resolving upon his true and right End, which he will supremely pursue, against whatsoever Competition of less valuable Things, he is now, in the lowest Sense, perfect, i. e. a resolved thorough Christian.
First, At the lowest, Sincerity; as when our Saviour proposes to that Querist, Mat. 19. 21. if he would be perfect, to sell all he had, and give to the Poor, following him, with the Expectation of no other Recompence but of a Treasure in Heaven. If a Man's Soul be not in a Disposition to comport with such Terms, upon a sufficient Signification of our Lord's Pleasure, that he shall now do so; or if at any Time this be the Case, that he must either forgo all this World, and even Life it self, or else renounce Christ and Christianity, he is not yet in a right Posture towards his last End. He hath not taken the Lord for his God and best Good, his Heart more strongly adheres to this present World. But if he have arrived hither, which is his first Step, resolving upon his true and right End, which he will supremely pursue, against whatsoever Competition of less valuable Things, he is now, in the lowest Sense, perfect, i. e. a resolved thorough Christian.