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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.
when they stand in opposition to, or competition with the things of Christ. If a man after he is baptised shall set his heart inordinately upon Earthly vanities, he breaketh his baptismal vow and covenant with God, Mat. 6.24.
4. Baptised ones, are under obligation to approve themselves, holy persons. They are bound to live a sanctified life. If they have been washed with ⟨p. 106⟩holy water of Baptism, that signifieth to them that now they must approve themselves, as those that have the consecration of God upon them ought to do, in all holy conversation and godliness, Eph. 5. 26. They are now bound to live, as becomes the Servants of such an Holy Lord, as God is, and as Christ is, for to do. There are two things in Sanctification; unto both which Baptism doth in the most solemn manner oblige those that are the Subjects of it.
4. Baptised ones, are under obligation to approve themselves, holy persons. They are bound to live a sanctified life. If they have been washed with ⟨p. 106⟩holy water of Baptisme, that signifieth to them that now they must approve themselves, as those that have the consecration of God upon them ought to do, in all holy conversation and godliness, Eph. 5. 26. They are now bound to live, as becomes the Servants of such an Holy Lord, as God is, and as Christ is, for to do. There are two things in Sanctification; unto both which Baptisme doth in the most solemn manner oblige those that are the Subjects of it.