The works of George Swinnock, M.A

As if he had said, I know your unbelieving hearts will think the news of a reconciled God, and of peace with him, too good to be true; behold therefore his love-token; Receive the earnest of his favour, his holy Spirit, who knoweth his mind fully, and was at the Council-Table of Heaven, when all your names were engrossed in the book of life, and all the methods of grace and good-will towards poor sinners were debated and concluded, and is sent to you on purpose to reveal them to you, and assure you of them, and therefore is an unquestionable evidence that he is at one with you. ⟨p. 317⟩This O my soul, was the blessed Heavenly Banquet, which the Redeemer entertained his Disciples with when they met together; and wouldst thou miss such a feast for all the World? Lord, thou lovest the Assemblies of thy Saints; they are the habitations of thy glorious Majesty, and the place where thine honour dwelleth; There thou makest the largest discoveries of thy self, and grantest the fullest communications of thy grace. O let me take sweet counsel with thy people, and go to serve and honour thee in their company.

As if he had said, I know your unbeleiving hearts will think the news of a reconciled God, and of peace with him, too good to be true; behold therefore his love-token; Receive the earnest of his favour, his holy Spirit, who knoweth his mind fully, and was at the Council-Table of Heaven, when all your names were engrost in the book of life, and all the methods of grace and good-will towards poor sinners were debated and concluded, and is sent to you on purpose to reveal them to you, and assure you of them, and therefore is an unquestionable evidence that he is at one with you. ⟨p. 317⟩This O my soul, was the blessed Heavenly Banquet, which the Redeemer entertained his Disciples with when they met together; and wouldst thou miss such a feast for all the World? Lord, thou lovest the Assemblies of thy Saints; they are the habitations of thy glorious Majesty, and the place where thine honour dwelleth; There thou makest the largest discoveries of thy self, and grantest the fullest communications of thy grace. O let me take sweet counsel with thy people, and go to serve and honour thee in their company.