N29553:182
A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our…
A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our souls. Being the substance of several sermons from Psal. 119. v. 60. / By Thomas Doolittle, Minister of the Gospel ...
printed by Bartholemew Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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.
Fifthly, In order to your becoming a Covenant People, and God your Covenant God, It would be a joyful fight to Men and Angels, to see a Commanding God, and an obeying Sinner. In the Covenant there are Commands as well as Promises, therefore they must be performed as a Duty, as well as participated of as a Privilege, Deut. 4. 13 He declared unto you his Covenant that he commanded you to perform. This God comes earth with a Commanding Voice, as well as with a Pleading, Tendering Voice: Now, as there is a Commanding Go, so if there were amongst you an obeying Sinner, then the Covenant would […] fulfilled, Rom. 11. 8 By Faith Abraham when he was called to […] into a place which he should after receive for an Inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowi• whither he went. God called him […] his Friend, and from his Family, and he knew not whether he was to go; yet he obeyed God. But God has old you […] […] whither ⟨p. 122⟩you shall go, yet you will not follow him! God has told you, that Heaven shall be the Place, an Everlasting Kingdom; you shall have Mansions above in Bliss, and Glory shall be the Place that God will lead you to, yet you will not obey God.
Fifthly, In order to your becoming a Covenant People, and God your Covenant God, It would be a joyful fight to Men and Angels, to see a Commanding God, and an obeying Sinner. In the Covenant there are Commands as well as Promises, therefore they must be performed as a Duty, as well as participated of as a Priviledge, Deut. 4. 13 He declared unto you his Covenant that he commanded you to perform. This God comes •rth with a Commanding Voice, as well as with a Pleading, Tendring Voice: Now, as there is a Commanding Go, so if there were amongst you an obeying Sinner, then the Covenant would 〈…〉 fulfilled, Rom. 11. 8 By Faith Abraham when he was called to 〈…〉 into a place which he should after receive for an Inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowi whither he went. God called him his Friend, and from his Family, and he knew not whether he was to go; yet he obeyed God. But God has old you whither