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Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness
Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness: wherein several important duties, are urged, and the evil of divers common sins, is evinced; delivered in sundry sermons. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green upon assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682
Baptised Persons are under Sacred and Awful Obligation to the Lord.
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.
Sanctification is likewise signified thereby. It is therefore said that the Lord did sanctify and cleanse his Church with the washing of water, Eph. 5. 26. When the body is subjected unto water in Baptism, those pure waters of the Spirit of Grace, wherewith the souls of Gods Elect are sprinkled and washed from the filth of sin, are thereby signified. Yea, and Glorification is thereby assured unto the true Believer in Christ, that he is admitted into the number of Gods adopted Children; and therefore is become an Heir of that Kingdom which doth belong unto the ⟨p. 101⟩children of God. All these mysteries are signified and sealed unto sincere Christians positively by their Baptism; and unto all that are baptised conditionally, […] in case they do repent and believe. Now if such glorious things are signified and sealed by Baptism, the Souls of men must needs be brought under a deep, and holy Obligation unto the Lord thereby.
Sanctification is likewise signified thereby. It is therefore said that the Lord did sanctifie and cleanse his Church with the washing of water, Eph. 5. 26. When the body is subjected unto water in Baptisme, those pure waters of the Spirit of Grace, wherewith the souls of Gods Elect are sprinkled and washed from the filth of sin, are thereby signified. Yea, and Glorification is thereby assured unto the true Believer in Christ, that he is admitted into the number of Gods adopted Children; and therefore is become an Heir of that Kingdome which doth belong unto the ⟨p. 101⟩children of God. All these mysteries are signified and sealed unto sincere Christians positively by their Baptisme; and unto all that are baptised conditionally, 〈…〉 in case they do repent and believe. Now if such glorious things are signified and sealed by Baptisme, the Souls of men must needs be brought under a deep, and holy Obligation unto the Lord thereby.