A64998:287
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
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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.
a discovery and promise of eternal Life made unto me in the Word, and withal a command of my Lord, to lay up my Treasure in Heaven: Therefore I choose Heaven for my Treasure and Inheritance, for ever to live there in the company of all the holy Angels and Saints, in the blessed sight, love, and enjoyment of the infinitely blessed God, to see and share in the glory of my Dearest Lord Jesus Christ, whither I hope my Soul shall be transported by the Angels, so soon as it is separated from my Body; and that my vile Body, when awakened and raised in the Morning of Christs coming, shall be fashioned like unto Christs most beautiful and glorious Body, and both inherit the Kingdom prepared and promised by my Father. Lastly, being persuaded of my Duty, and encouraged by Gods promise of assistance and acceptance; I now dedicate and deliver up my self fully, freely, and for ever unto the Lord; I yield and resign up my Soul with all its powers and faculties; my Body with all its senses and members to be the instruments of righteousness unto God: I resign up my Mind to think upon the Lord, and those things which concern his Interest and Glory, to receive, embrace and maintain his Truths; I resign up my Memory, to be a ⟨p. 149⟩store-house and receptacle chiefly of the great things which do belong to his Kingdom, and other things of a more inferior rank, as they may have a reference unto his Glory. I resign up my Conscience to receive light and purity from his Word and Spirit, and desire that it may act faithfully as the Lords Deputy. I resign up my Will unto the Will of God, to submit to his Precepts, to embrace his Promises, to oppose what he hath forbidden, to comply with all the dispensations of his Providence towards me, to be willing that I should be, and do, and bear, and choose and lose what God would have me. I resign up my Heart and Affections to fear and reverence the Lord, to believe and trust in the Lord, to desire and seek after the Lord, to love and delight in the Lord, and desire to put them all under his Government, and to have them exercised according to his will. I resign up my Fancy to be governed and employed by my Reason in the service of my Master. I resign up my Sensual Appetite after meat and drink, sleep, and any pleasures to be subservient to my Rational Appetite, and no further to have satisfaction, than will tend to the glory of the Lord.
a discovery and promise of eternal Life made unto me in the Word, and withall a command of my Lord, to lay up my Treasure in Heaven: Therefore I choose Heaven for my Treasure and Inheritance, for ever to live there in the company of all the holy Angels and Saints, in the blessed sight, love, and enjoyment of the infinitely blessed God, to see and share in the glory of my Dearest Lord Iesus Christ, whither I hope my Soul shall be transported by the Angels, so soon as it is separated from my Body; and that my vile Body, when awakened and raised in the Morning of Chriss coming, shall be fashioned like unto Christs most beautifull and glorious Body, and both inherit the Kingdom prepared and promised by my Father. Lastly, being perswaded of my Duty, and encouraged by Gods promise of assistance and acceptance; I now dedicate and deliver up my self fully, freely, and for ever unto the Lord; I yield and resign up my Soul with all its powers and faculties; my Body with all its senses and members to be the instruments of righteousness unto God: I resign up my Minde to think upon the Lord, and those things which concern his Interest and Glory, to receive, embrace and maintain his Truths; I resign up my Memory, to be a