Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THERE are two things, which those who after a long profession of the Gospel are entering into the Confines of Eternity, do long for and desire. The one is, that all their Breaches may be repaired, their Decays recovered, their Backslidings healed: For unto these things they have been less or more obnoxious in the course of their walking before God. The other is, that they may have fresh Springs of Spiritual Life, and vigorous actings of all Divine Graces, in Spiritual ⟨p. 27⟩Mindedness, Holiness, and Fruitfulness, unto the praise of God, the honour of the Gospel, and the increase of their own Peace and Joy. These things they value more than all the World, and all that is in it; about these things are their Thoughts and Contrivances exercised night and day. Those with whom it is otherwise, whatever they pretend, are in the dark unto themselves, and their own Condition: For it is in the Nature of this Grace to grow and increase unto the end. As Rivers, the nearer they come unto the Ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams: So will Grace flow more freely and fully in it's near approaches to the Ocean of Glory. That is not saving which doth not so.

THERE are two things, which those who after a long profession of the Gospel are entring into the Confines of Eternity, do long for and desire. The one is, that all their Breaches may be repaired, their Decays recovered, their Backslidings healed: For unto these things they have been less or more obnoxious in the course of their walking before God. The other is, that they may have fresh Springs of Spiritual Life, and vigorous actings of all Divine Graces, in Spiritual ⟨p. 27⟩Mindedness, Holiness, and Fruitfulness, unto the praise of God, the honour of the Gospel, and the encrease of their own Peace and Joy. These things they value more than all the World, and all that is in it; about these things are their Thoughts and Contrivances exercised night and day. Those with whom it is otherwise, whatever they pretend, are in the dark unto themselves, and their own Condition: For it is in the Nature of this Grace to grow and encrease unto the end. As Rivers, the nearer they come unto the Ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams: So will Grace flow more freely and fully in it's near approaches to the Ocean of Glory. That is not saving which doth not so.