The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

In being oft in his company, and growing up thereby into a familiar acquaintance with him: can we be long absent from those we love entirely, if we may come to them? can we love Christ, and yet be seldom with him, in Word, in Prayer, in Sacraments, in Christian Communion, in Meditation and daily Examination of our own hearts, in his providences of Mercies, Crosses, and Trials? (for Christ is with us here, but ⟨p. 341⟩those two ways, in his Ordinances, or Providences, by his holy Spirit,) Lord (saith David) I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth, Psal. 26.8. The ground of which is set down, vers. 3. Thy loving kindness is before mine eyes, my soul longeth for thee as in a land where no water is, that I might see thee, as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary; the reason of it was, because thy loving kindness is better then life: Psal. 63.1, 2, 3.

In being oft in his company, and growing up thereby into a familiar acquaintance with him: can we be long absent from those we love intirely, if we may come to them? can we love Christ, and yet be seldom with him, in Word, in Prayer, in Sacraments, in Christian Communion, in Meditation and dayly Examination of our owne hearts, in his providences of Mercies, Crosses, and Tryals? (for Christ is with us here, but ⟨p. 341⟩those two wayes, in his Ordinances, or Providences, by his holy Spirit,) Lord (saith David) I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth, Psal. 26.8. The ground of which is set down, vers. 3. Thy loving kindnesse is before mine eyes, my soule longeth for thee as in a land where no water is, that I might see thee, as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary; the reason of it was, because thy loving kindnesse is better then life: Psal. 63.1, 2, 3.