Sermons preached

1. No Recovery of what we lost. What did we lose by the Fall? The Image, and Favour of God, and Fellowship with God.

(1.) The Image of God was defaced by Sin. Man abode not in the honour of his Creation, but became as the Beasts that perish. Now the Restitution of this great Gift we only have by Christ, who is the Pattern and Author of it. The Pattern, 2 Cor. 3. 18. We all with open face beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The Author, Tit. 3. 5, 6. Not by Works of Righteousness which ye have done, but according to his Mercy he saved us, by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Till we are in him, and be one with him, we have not this great Benefit. 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any Man be in Christ, he is a new Creature. We are destitute of that Image of God, wherein we were created; and better we had never been born, unless new-born.

(1.) The Image of God was defaced by Sin. Man abode not in the honour of his Creation, but became as the Beasts that perish. Now the Restitution of this great Gift we only have by Christ, who is the Pattern and Author of it. The Pattern, 2 Cor. 3. 18. We all with open face beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The Author, Tit. 3. 5, 6. Not by Works of Righteousness which ye have done, but according to his Mercy he saved us, by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly, through Iesus Christ our Saviour. Till we are in him, and be one with him, we have not this great Benefit.