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

and having Christ set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood, and his Righteousness declared for the remission of sins which are past through the forbearance of God; and this Christ freely tendered unto me, and being invited earnestly, yea entreated that I would be reconciled unto God through him; and by the Spirit being persuaded of the truth of these things, and hereby encouraged to apply my self unto Christ, and the Promises through him unto my self: I do now (grieving that I have offended God, groaning under the burden of sin, renouncing all my own righteousness, hungering after the Lord Jesus Christ and his righteousness) upon the bended knees of my soul come unto him, and cast my self wholly upon him; I choose him for my only Advocate to plead my cause in the Court of Heaven, to procure for me Pardon and Reconciliation, that being justified by Faith, I may have peace with God through my dear Lord Jesus Christ. Next, repenting from the bottom of my heart• of my sins, grieving that I have such a sinful Nature, such a deceitful heart, that I have so adulterated my affections, and gone a whoring from God to the Creatures, that I have so indulged my flesh, and satisfied its irregular desires, that I have given ear to the Devil, and complied as I have done with his temptations: I now renounce all allegiance and service to the World, to the Flesh, and to the Devil, these enemies of the Lord, and of my peace, which war against my Master, and against my own soul; covenanting and promising never to give away my heart any more from the Lord unto any person or thing in the World; to refuse the World for my portion and ⟨p. 66⟩chief happiness; to deny my flesh i•s sinful desires and demands; to resist the Devil and his Temptations; not to live and allow my self in any known sin, and to make use of all the known means which the Lord hath prescribed for the crucifying of the World, for the mortifying and utter extirpation of sin, for the resisting and overcoming the Devil.

and having Christ set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood, and his Righteousness declared for the remission of sins which are past through the forbearance of God; and this Christ freely tendered unto me, and being invited earnestly, yea entreated that I would be reconciled unto God through him; and by the Spirit being perswaded of the truth of these things, and hereby encouraged to apply my self unto Christ, and the Promises through him unto my self: I do now (grieving that I have offended God, groaning under the burden of sin, renouncing all my own righteousness, hungring after the Lord Jesus Christ and his righteousness) upon the bended knees of my soul come unto him, and cast my self wholly upon him; I choose him for my only Advocate to plead my cause in the Court of Heaven, to procure for me Pardon and Reconciliation, that being justified by Faith, I may have peace with God through my dear Lord Jesus Christ. Next, repenting from the bottom of my heart of my sins, grieving that I have such a sinfull Nature, such a deceitfull heart, that I have so adulterated my affections, and gone a whoring from God to the Creatures, that I have so indulged my flesh, and satisfied its irregular desires, that I have given ear to the Devil, and complyed as I have done with his temptations: I now renounce all allegiance and service to the World, to the Flesh, and to the Devil, these enemies of the Lord, and of my peace, which warr against my Master, and against my own soul; covenanting and promising never to give away my heart any more from the Lord unto any person or thing in the World; to refuse the World for my portion and