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Self-dedication discoursed in the anniversary thanksgiving of a person of honour for a great…
Self-dedication discoursed in the anniversary thanksgiving of a person of honour for a great deliverance. By J.H.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1682
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.
Consider moreover, the renewing work of God's grace and spirit upon Soul's, consists ⟨p. 84⟩in sanctifying their natural faculties, their Understandings, Consciences, Wills, Affections. And what are these sanctified for, but to be used and exercised? and to what more noble purpose? If there be that holy impress upon the Soul, that inclines all the powers of it God-ward; What serves it for, but to prompt, and lead it on to the correspondent acts? to apprehend and eye God, to admit a conviction of duty, and, particularly, how I owe my self to him, to choose, love, fear, and serve him, and what doth all this import less, than ⟨p. 85⟩an entire self-resignation to him? so that the genuine tendency of the holy new nature is, in nothing, so directly answered, and satisfied as in this.
Consider moreover, the renewing work of God's grace and spirit upon Soul's, consists ⟨p. 84⟩in sanctifying their natural faculties, their Understandings, Consciences, Wills, Affections. And what are these sanctify'd for, but to be used and exercised? and to what more noble purpose? If there be that holy impress upon the Soul, that inclines all the powers of it God-ward; What serves it for, but to prompt, and lead it on to the correspondent acts? to apprehend and eye God, to admit a conviction of duty, and, particularly, how I owe my self to him, to choose, love, fear, and serve him, and what doth all this import less, than ⟨p. 85⟩an entire self-resignation to him? so that the genuine tendency of the holy new nature is, in nothing, so directly answered, and satisfy'd as in this.
And it ought to be considered that the faculties of our reasonable souls have a natural improvement and perfection, as well as a gracious. And for their highest and noblest acts, 'tis fit they should be used in their highest perfection. 'Tis possible, that in the children of religious parents, there may be some pious inclinations, betimes; and the sooner they thereupon choose the God of their fathers,