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God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God…
God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for public prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for publick prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for William Marshal, 1696
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.
In him, God is our Father, our Friend, our Portion; in him, we may come to God with holy Boldness; All the promises of God are in him, yea, and in him, amen, to the glory of God the Father.
5. We must acknowledge God by Faith: God is never acknowledged1 in Christ aright, but by Faith; we must believe, if we would be accepted, to believe in Christ, or come to God by Faith in Christ, is the way to be justified, to be pardoned, and to obtain all things whatsoever we want.
5. We must acknowledge God by Faith: God is never acknowledg'd1 in Christ aright, but by Faith; we must believe, if we would be accepted, to believe in Christ, or come to God by Faith in Christ, is the way to be justified, to be pardoned, and to obtain all things whatsoever we want.
- 1GOD to be acknowledged in Faith.
To Believe, is to trust in God through Christ, to rely upon God through Jesus Christ, to rest on God's Power and Mercy through Christ, to receive him for all, as he is offered in the Gospel, 'tis to depend upon God's faithful Promises: He that cometh to me, I will no wise cast out, John 6. 36. He is able to save to the uttermost, all that come to God by him; seeing be ever liveth to make intercession for us, Heb. 7. 25.