A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…

IV. When we Commit our Spirits into the Hand of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must Submit unto all His Gracious Operations upon our Spirits. We Commit our Spirits into the Hand of our Lord Jesus Christ, we say: Well, He then demands of us, as in Mark 10.51 What wilt thou, that I should do unto thee? And, I pray, mark it; If there be any Article of Grace, always wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Spirits of Hi• Elect, which you do not Consent unto, He will not Receive your Spirits; No, He will Destroy them dreadfully. Some Commit their Spirits into the Hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, they say; but they are not willing that the Hand of the Lord Jesus Christ should, ever Do for them, all that must be done, in all that are brought Home unto God. Perhaps they would have their Spirits rescued from the Hands of the Devils hereafter; but they don't heartily Commit their Spirits into the Hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, for to have all the Lusts that make their Spirits like Devils, here Embittered, and Eradicated. They would have Easy Spirits, it may be, but Oh! they are Loth to have Holy Spirits. This Halving of it, Thou Hypocrite, This Halving of a Christ, will Hang the Millstones of Damnation, about the Neck of thy Soul for ever. The Lord Jesus Christ, puts this Question unto us, Poor Sinner, what shall I do for thy Spirit? ⟨p. 19⟩No man can a•ight Commit a Spirit into the Hand of the Lord Jesu• ••rist, until he have seriously pondered on […] Question. Ponder i•, Sirs, in the Fear of God! But then Let our Answer to it, be according to that, in 2 Thes 1.11 That He would fulfil all the good pleasure of His Goodness in you, and the work of Faith with power. In Committing your Spirits into the Hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, Oh! Let your Hearts, being made willing in the Day of His power, Declare themselves willing, to have Him Do for you, all that He is willing to Do. 'Tis the proposal of the Lord Jesus Christ, Shall my Obedience to my Father, furnish thee with that Atonement, and that Righteousness, whereby thy Spirit shall stand without Fault before the Throne of God? Reply, Lord, I Commit my Spirit into thy Hand, for Thee to Justify it. The proposal of the Lord Jesus Christ unto us is, All the Maladies of thy Spirit, shall I heal them all? Reply, Lord, I Commit my Spirit into thy Hand, as into the Hand of the Lord my Healer;