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Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union…
Blessed unions. An union with the son of God by faith. And, an union in the church of God by love, importunately pressed; in a discourse which makes divers offers, for those unions; together with a copy of those articles, where-upon a most happy union, has been lately made between those two eminent parties in England, which have now changed the names of Presbyterians, and Congregationals, for that of United Brethren. / By Cotton Mather ; [Six lines from Mead]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1692
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.
But, Secondly. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ will then marvellously maintain His Interest in our Souls: and I pray ask for that Spirit, of Him that says, He will give it unto them that ask it. It is said in 1 Cor. 15. 45. The Last Adam is a Quickening Spirit. The Quickening Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, will now take possession of us, and keep the Holy Fire always alive upon the Altars of our Hearts. That Spirit will Inform us; He will cause us To know the Things that are Spiritually Discerned; He will cause us To Behold Wondrous Things out of Gods Law: He will give us right and clear Apprehensions of those Things which Eye hath not seen, Ear hath not heard, and Heart not Conceived. That Spirit will In•line us; he will make us, Ready to every Good Work; he will dispose us to those things that are, Holy, and Just, and Good: he will cause us to like, Whatsoever things are True, whatsoever things are Honest, whatsoever things are Just, whatsoever things are Pure, whatsoever things are Lovely, whatsoever things are ⟨p. 18⟩of good Report. That Spirit will Defend us; He will Teach our Hands to War, and our Fingers to Fight, in the Batters of the Lord; He will make us Fight the Good Fight, and keep the Faith, and Finish our Course; He will make us Conquerors and more than Conquerors over all our Interior Adversaries. In a word, That Spirit will give us the same Affections and the •ame Experiences that are in the other Sheep of our Lord Jesus Christ; even such as we never saw, or knew, and such as are concealed at a thousand Leagues Distance from us. Yea, That Spirit will make us fee• something […] Heaven upon Earth; something of the same Loves, and the same Joys, that replenish the Souls of the Saints Triumphant above; is now distilled in some measure into the Saints Militant here below. And that Spirit will even Reserve and Renew such a Portion of the Dust into which our Dissolution do's incinerate us, as that the Tabernacles wherein we now Lodge, at the Resurrection shall become Temples unto Himself World without End. In fine, The Second Adam with ⟨p. 19⟩His Quickening spirit, will give us Relief against all the Death which is from the First Adam with Original sin derived unto us. This is that Union with our Lord Jesus Christ, which O that we were all come unto!