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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.
I. Let every person among you all, be overcome and persuaded this Day, To give such an Entertainment unto the Lord Jesus, in your Hearts, as may produce your Union with Him. I pray, make Room for a precious Jesus in your Souls; that so, He may say concerning you, I am in Them? This is, The Thing, which will •ettle an Eternal Union between Him and You; without This, you remain without Christ, and so without Hope for ever.
I. Let every person among you all, be overcome and perswaded this Day, To give such an Entertainment unto the Lord Jesus, in your Hearts, as may produce your Union with Him. I pray, make Room for a precious Jesus in your Souls; that so, He may say concerning you, I am in Them? This is, The Thing, which will •ettle an Eternal Union between Him and You; without This, you remain without Christ, and so without Hope for ever.
You must imagine me this Day to be one of the Disciples, that come to Demand a […] (as they did of old, in Mark 14. 14) for the Entertainment of the Blessed Jesus. I pray, where is the Room? Let your Answer be, Lord, in this poor Heart of mine; Come to dwell there by the Spirit of Faith for-ever! Reply thus; and O do not shut him out of Doors. In is the sweet voice of our ⟨p. 24⟩Lord Jesus, in Rev. 3. 20. Behold, […] stand at the Door and Knock. And i• deed, how many Knocks has He be making at the Doors of your Souls […] is said, Is not my Word an Hammer Why, That Hammer has been Knocks at your Hearts for many a Day; […] the Golden Rod of your Enjoyment and the Iron Rod of your Affliction has also been loudly Rapping there That you would give Admission to the Spiritual Efficacies of the Lord Jesus your Souls; And will you still keep Hi• out of Doors? Why, Sinners, the How it his own, as Paul says of the Chur for he hath both Made it, and Bou it; it is by the Right both of Creation and of Redemption, HIS; and […] you still Bar him out of his own? Gi me leave then to make that Cry sour in and thro' this great Congregation