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Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your…
Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your selves to God" / by J.H. ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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.
But it also concerns you to have distinct and right thoughts of the state of your case, and how things are between ⟨p. 35⟩him and the Sons of men, that you may duly apply your selves to him in so great a transaction. The Gospel under which you live tells you, he treats with men in and by a Mediator, his own Son, who came down into this wretched World of ours, in great compassion to our miseries, and took our Nature, was here on Earth among us an incarnate God. God manifested in the flesh. Because we were partakers of flesh and blood, he took part with us likewise of the same, and in that Nature of ours died for us, to make way that we might yield our selves to God, and be accepted.1 No man now comes to the Father but by him. He must be acknowledged with great reverence; and a most profound homage must be rendered to him.2 He that denieth the Son hath not the Father. And it being his pleasure, to treat with us by his Son, and the case requiring that we apply our selves to him, we are to take notice of him according to those capacities wherein Scripture represents him to us. And it represents him agreeably to those same notions according to which we have shown we are to consider God the Father in this matter; so as that ⟨p. 36⟩Christ being the Mediator between him and us, when we yield our selves to him ultimately, and finally, under the notions that have been mentioned, we are first to yield our selves to his Son, Christ Jesus our Redeemer, under the like notions. For,
But it also concerns you to have distinct and right thoughts of the state of your case, and how things are between ⟨p. 35⟩him and the Sons of men, that you may duly apply your selves to him in so great a transaction. The Gospel under which you live tells you, he treats with men in and by a Mediator, his own Son, who came down into this wretched World of ours, in great compassion to our miseries, and took our Nature, was here on Earth among us an incarnate God. God manifested in the flesh. Because we were partakers of flesh and blood, he took part with us likewise of the same, and in that Nature of ours died for us, to make way that we might yield our selves to God, and be accepted.