The saints everlasting rest

Therefore let this be a chief part of thy business in meditation. Read over the promises: study all confirming providences. Call forth thine own experiences: remember the scriptures already fulfilled both to the church and saints in the former ages, and eminently to both in this present age, and those that have been fulfilled particularly to thee.

Therefore let this be a chief part of thy business in meditation. Read over the promises: stady all confirming providences. Call forth thine own experiences: remember the scriptures already fulfilled both to the church and saints in the former ages, and eminently to both in this present age, and those that have been fulfilled particularly to thee.

Set before your faith, the freeness and the universality of the promise: consider GOD'S offer, and urge it upon all, that he hath accepted from the conditional covenant no man in the world, nor will exclude any from heaven, who will accept of his offer. Study also the gracious disposition of Christ, and his readiness to welcome all that will come: study all the evidences of his love, which appeared in his sufferings, in his preaching the gospel, in his condescension to sinners, in his easy conditions, in his exceeding patience, and in his urgent invitations: do not all these discover his readiness to save? Did he ever manifest himself unwilling? Remember also his faithfulness to perform his engagements. Study also the evidences of his love in thyself; look over the works of his grace in thy soul: if thou dost not find the ⟨p. 342⟩degree which thou desirest, yet deny not that degree which thou findest. Remember what discoveries of thy state thou hast made formerly in the work of self-examination. Remember all the former testimonies of the Spirit; and all the sweet feelings of the favour of GOD: and all the prayers that he hath heard and granted; and all the preservations and deliverances; and all the progress of his Spirit, in his workings on thy soul, and the disposals of Providence, conducing to thy good; and vouchsafing of means, the directing thee to them, the directing of ministers to meet with thy state, the restraint of those sins that thy nature was most prone to. Lay these all together, and then think with thyself, whether all these do not testify the good will of the LORD concerning thy salvation? And whether thou mayst not conclude with Sampson's mother, when her husband thought they should surely die, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, be would not have received an offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these things; nor would, as at this time, have told us such things as these,