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Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…
Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about prayer in families, and in secret: delivered in several sermons; / by Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for John Griffin, 1684
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.
1. Some that were styled Proselytes of the Covenant, those were Circumcised, and also admitted to all privileges in the Church of Israel; no difference being made either as to Civil or Church Communion between them, and those that were natural Israelites.
1. Some that were stiled Proselytes of the Covenant, those were Circumcised, and also admitted to all priviledges in the Church of Israel; no difference being made either as to Civil or Church Communion between them, and those that were natural Israelites.
2. Those that were styled Proselytes of the Gate. These did own the God of Israel to be the only true God; and hoped for Salvation by the Messiah; and did endeavour to frame their lives according to the holy Rules of the Moral Law. Cornelius was a Proselyte of this, and not of the former fort. And hence Peter was unwilling to converse with him, until such time as God by a vision commanded him so to do. The truth of Cornelius his Religion is in this verse intimated by two things.
2. Those that were stiled Proselytes of the Gate. These did own the God of Israel to be the only true God; and hoped for Salvation by the Messiah; and did endeavour to frame their lives according to the holy Rules of the Moral Law. Cornelius was a Proselyte of this, and not of the former fort. And hence Peter was unwilling to converse with him, until such time as God by a vision commanded him so to do. The truth of Cornelius his Religion is in this verse intimated by two things.
1. In that he was careful, not only to […] unto God himself alone, but that his family should do so too. He did Worship […] with all his House, h. e. with his whole