A64998:272
The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved
The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved by Thomas Vincent.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2 You must live Righteously in regard of others: You must give to every one their due, and do to others as you reasonably can desire that they should do unto you, you must take heed of unrighteousness either in regard of Commutative Justice in your buying and selling, borrowing and lending; and in regard of Distributative Justice in dispensing of rewards and punishments; you must beware of oppressing, afflicting, injuring any, of going beyond or defrauding any, of withholding dues, keeping back wages from those that have done you service, knowing that if they cannot, God will be the avenger of all such.
2 You must live Righteously in regard of others: You must give to every one their due, and do to others as you reasonably can desire that they should do unto you, you must take heed of unrighteousness either in regard of Commutative Justice in your buying and selling, borrowing and lending; and in regard of Distributative Justice in dispensing of rewards and punishments; you must beware of oppr•ssing, afflicting, injuring any, of going beyond or defrauding any, of withholding dues, keeping back wages from those that have done you service, knowing that if they cannot, God will be the avenger of all such.
3. You must live godly in regard of the Lord; ⟨p. 145⟩you must especially show your New Life in the immediate Worship of the Lord, and that publicly in his House, privately in your Families, secretly in your Closets; you must worship God in the Ordinances of his own appointment; and this you must do with reverence, having an awe and dread of God upon your spirits, with whom you have more immediately to do; with sincerity, having a sincere respect to Gods glory therein, and that you might be accepted by him, and meet with him; with vigilancy watching the sittest time in regard of the thing, and the temper of your Bodies and Souls, and the breathings of Gods Spirit; with humility, sensible of your sinfulness, unworthiness, weakness, emptiness, neediness; with diligence, before to prepare your hearts, and in Ordinances to engage them, and resist the Devil and the contrary workings of the flesh; with frequency, laying hold on all the opportunities as you can, without neglecting other businesses, which for that time you may be more necessarily called unto; with fervency, getting your hearts if you can raised and enlarged, labouring that they may burn within you with love to God; with delight and complacency in God, and above all with Faith in Jesus Christ, through whom alone it is that you can have strength to perform duties, and that you can have any acceptance in them by the Father.