A54381:869
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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.
If we mean to have eternal life, we must examine the course of our lives by the square of Gods Law; we must set the course due unto our sins before our eyes, and bewail our miseries, and have a holy despair of our own powers, and renounce our selves, and sue unto Christ Jesus.
If we mean to have eternal life, we must examin the course of our lives by the square of Gods Law; we must set the course due unto our sins before our eys, and bewail our miseries, and have a holy despair of our own powers, and renounce our selves, and sue unto Christ Jesus.
This is the use of the Law, in unregenerate men and women.
The use of the Law in regenerate men, is,—
—To guide them to new obedience in the whole course of their lives, and this new obedience is acceptable to God through Christ; Rom. 3. 31. Psal. 119. 24. 105.