Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

I A. B. do acknowledge my self to be the Creature and Subject of the great and glorious Majesty of Heaven and Earth, in whom I live, move, and have my being, and from whom I receive every good thing which I receive; and therefore am obliged to conform my mind, will and affections, to order my words, ways and whole conversation according to his most wise and good, most righteous and reasonable Laws: Besides which natural Obligation, however born in sin, and thereby disenabled, yet being born in the Church, and ⟨p. 64⟩Baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and by my Parents dedicated unto God when I was an Infant; I am further obliged by Covenant to be the servant of the Lord. But having proved a Rebel and Traitor against the Highest Majesty, breaking his Laws, and Covenant-ties which have been upon me, spending years of my life in a state of strangeness and enmity to God, in the service of the Devil and my own Lusts, I do now solemnly renew my Covenant with God, that the breach may be made up which sin hath made between God and my Soul. Being in the First place convinced of the guilt of my sins, whereby I have affronted and offended the highest Majesty, whose Justice must be satisfied; and withal convinced of my own utter inability to make the least satisfaction either by doing or suffering, and that my Righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and therefore altogether insufficient to procure for me the pardon of sin, the favour of God, and the peace of Conscience; as also fully persuaded that no mere Creature is able to give unto me any help and relief in this case. And being informed by the Word of God what the Lord Jesus is, hath done, and suffered for poor sinners, That there is no Name under Heaven given amongst men whereby we can be saved, but only the Name of Jesus Christ; that he is able to save all them unto the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing be ever liveth to make intercession for them; that he is a merciful and faithful High-priest in things pertaining to God, to make Reconciliation for the sins of the People; that whosoever cometh unto him, he will in no wise cast out: and finding a Promise in the Covenant of Grace that God will be merciful unto our unrighteousness, and that our sins and iniquities he will remember no more; which ⟨p. 65⟩Covenant is of full force through the death of Christ the Testator thereof:

I A. B. do acknowledge my self to be the Creature and Subject of the great and glorious Majesty of Heaven and Earth, in whom I live, move, and have my being, and from whom I receive every good thing which I receive; and therefore am obliged to conform my minde, will and affections, to order my words, wayes and whole conversation according to his most wise and good, most righteous and reasonable Laws: Besides which natural Obligation, however born in sin, and thereby disenabled, yet being born in the Church, and