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The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and…
The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be prayed & striven for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]The converted sinner. The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be pray'd & striv'n for. : A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. : To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. ; [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
M. Mind what I say to you; and give Earnest Heed unto it. A Glorious CHRIST has mad• Himself a Debtor to the Law for us: and He that made the Law put Himself under it, that GOD might be Glorified with an Obedience impossible to be equalled by what could come from any Creature. Our Surety has by His most Thorough Ob••i•nce to it, Magnified the Law and •ade it Hono•rable. In His ⟨p. 43⟩Holy Heart, and His Holy Walk, there was the fullest Co••or•ity to the Law that ever was Exhibited. Infinite Holiness could find in it no Deficiency, tax it with no Impurity. Here was a Righteousness! The Heavens themselves could show nothing to be Compared with it. Now, This Righteousness is what your SAVIOUR has wrought out, and brought in, for us Ungodly Ones, that we may stand in it before GOD, and so be Justified. A most Gracious GOD allows the Merits of this Righteousness, unto those, who have none of their own, and who Renounce all Dependence on their own, and who Despairing in themselves make mention of This Righteousness, even of This only. The Righteousness of a CHRIST Believed on, GOD will •eckon it unto you for the Righteousness, wherein you shall be Justified before Him. Let the Prayer of your Faith be This; Lord, I am utterly destitute of •ny Righteousness; All my Right• ousnes• is but Filthiness: But Oh! Accept me among thy Righteous Ones, because my JESUS has fulfilled all Righteousness, and, I hope in Him, that He will do the part of an Advocate, and show His Righteousness for me, that I may be delivered from go•ng d•wn unto t•e Pit. Now you shall have the Benefit o• this Righteousness, and be received among the Righteous upon it.