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A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of…
A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Bread Street, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in Southwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.
London: printed by S. Bridge for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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.
4. This is most suitable unto the Aim and Tendency of the New Creature, which is indeed the effect of the Gospel-Call; wheresoever it comes to be effectual calling, the New Creature is the Product. This is the Genius of the New Creature, to aspire upwards. They that have received the first Fruits of the Spirit groan within themselves; Groan as under a Pressure, or Burden; to be loosened from this World, from this Earth, and from these Bodies; and to partake in the Glory of the Sons of God, manifested in the proper season, of their Manifestation, Rom. 8.19. compared with the 23. And as they, that in the Work of the New Creation, are what they are, New Creatures, as being Born from Heaven; so they are Born for it. Except a Man be Born [Greek or Hebrew], from above, he cannot ⟨p. 23⟩enter into nor see the Kingdom of God, John 3.3, 5. He is Born for this Heavenly State, when he is Regenerate, when he is made a New Creature, that he may be capable of entering into this Kingdom. And 1 Pet. 1.3. Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has begotten us again to a lively hope, to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for us. There are Principles inlaid in the Work of the New Creature, which dispose the soul God-ward, and Heaven-ward. Hereby they are made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in light, as in that Colos. 1.12. And to suppose that there should be a New Creature without such a Disposition as this, is to suppose the New Creature to be the most Unnatural Creature under Heaven. It must have Dispositions in it suitable to its Nature, and to that State that it is designed ultimately for; as every other Creature is suited to the Place and State it is to hold in the Creation of God.
4. This is most suitable unto the Aim and Tendency of the New Creature, which is indeed the effect of the Gospel-Call; wheresoever it comes to be effectual calling, the New Creature is the Product. This is the Genius of the New Creature, to aspire upwards. They that have received the first Fruits of the Spirit groan within themselves; Groan as under a Pressure, or Burden; to be loosened from this World, from this Earth, and from these Bodies; and to partake in the Glory of the Sons of God, manifested in the proper season, of their Manifestation,