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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.
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.
1. To mortify sin. The baptized person hath vowed the death of sin, and that he will never be reconciled to that Enemy, but will maintain war with the Amalekites for ever. As Christ hath died for sin, so the person that is baptised into his Name, is under a most sacred Obligation, to endeavour to be continually dying to sin, Rom. 6. 3.