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Mans whole duty and Gods wonderful intreaty of him thereunto set forth from 2 Cor. 5, 20, and published at the request of some hearers / by Daniel Burgess.
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Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.
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said it was an unclean or untrue Spirit that Christ had to witness these things And this their Blasphemous Unbelief and Inconsideracy is declared unpardonable even so as no other sin is Reader Canst thou think of this without horrour But see also how are we warned not to resist not to quench not to grieve the Holy Spirit Acts 7.51 1 Thess 5.19 Eph. 4.30 Not to resist him in the Ordinances of his Word testifying unto us Gods foresaid Purpose and Christs Purchase in order to draw us to a due pursuit of our Reconcilement Not to grieve him that is not to provoke him to leave us as our Friends use to do when we offend them by Unbelief and Inconsideracy of his foresaid Testimony Not to quench him that is not to oppose and put out the Light and Evidence he giveth us of the things foresaid preferring our Darkness above his Light chusing rather to be ignorant than to know Gods Purpose and Christs Purchase of the said Reconciliation Not to Believe and to Consider the Holy Spirits foresaid Proof is to Resist and Quench and Grieve him if any thing be so to do Prayer and Labour for the possession of this reconciliation is set us Acts 8.28 Repent saith Peter to Simon Magus and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee That is Pray if possibly thou mayest get possest of God's Peace and reconciliation Luke 13 24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto ye will seek to enter in and will not be able That is do your utmost to enter into the Christian state to get joyned to the Lord in the Gospel-Covenant of reconciling Grace For many faint chill luke-warm souls will seek but ineffectually But put ye your utmost power into act Prayer and Labour for the certain perswasion of this reconciliation is set us Prayer Psal 4 6. Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance on us David 's example is obliging in this case Labour 2 Pet. 1.10 Brethren give diligence to make your Calling that is into the state of reconciliation with God and Election sure Prayer and Labour for the practical improvement of this reconciliation is set us Psal 119.65 66. Thou hast dealt well with thy Servant O Lord and what follows Teach me good Judgment and Knowledge That is holily to improve thy love Eph. 4.32 compare with Eph. 5.1 God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you or been reconciled to you And what then is inferred Be ye therefore followers or as in the Original Imitators of God as dear Children That is as those that think they can never do enough to express their Love and Thankfulness Hope and Joy in the Hope of the perfection and publication of reconciliation to God in the day of Judgment is also set us Hope Tit. 2 11 12 13. The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness c. and live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Looking for that blessed Hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Joy Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord alway And again I say Rejoyce 1 Thess 5 16. Rejoyce evermore To conclude He that doth these things is certainly acceptable unto God and approved of Men. All that do fear God Nor can any answer be made to his shame if such a one ask What lack I yet If any do dream otherwise and sear that this is not the whole Duty of man let them shew but one thing more and I will bear the shame C. 2. The Nature of Religion requires this and no more I must be understood of Postlapsarian Religion Religion as since Man's Fall it has been modelled Be it considered that Religion as so considered is nothing else but a restored Friendship or a Reconciliation between God and Man And this made in a way prescribed by the VVisdom and VVill of God whose revealed VVill is to deal with man in a way agreeable to the Nature whereof he hath made him and yet in every respect suited to the Soveraignty he hath over him Plainly thus in all his wayes with us God will himself so act that the Power and Praise shall be as visibly as truly his own Yet so that there shall be room and place for our acting by and under him And Duty shall still be truly and visibly ours In this Reconciliation each person of the blessed Trinity hath his Gracious Part. The Father Reconciles us to wit as the Primary Cause purposing of it 2 Cor. 5.19 The Son Reconciles us to wit as the Meritorious Purchaser Eph. 2.16 The Blessed Spirit Reconciles us as the Efficient VVorker and VVitnesser of the Grace by which we are made Partakers of the Reconciliation and are assured thereof Joh. 3 5. Rom. 5.5 So that the Kingdom Power and Glory is here illustriously and equally to be ascribed unto the Father Son and Spirit In the mean time we also have our part left us We are bid in my Text our selves to Reconcile our selves That is to do our part toward it So Ezek. 33.11 Turn ye turn ye that is Reconcile Reconcile your selves q.d. No longer turn your backs on God as Enemies turn about your Faces toward him as Friends Now what I affirm is this Namely that this part to be done by us toward our Reconciliation consists in the things foresaid and no more Of these we are capable by the aids of Divine Grace And so proper are all these to be done by us that the Neglect must needs incense Divine Justice Of doing ought more we have no Capacity as blessed be God we have no Commandment in his Word which hath been fore-asserted Of Believing and Considering the parts done by the Divine Persons we have Capacity Natural I mean Though impotent and perverse our Faculties be till Grace give them strength and inclination unto good They were created in us by God for this Noble use And should he admit our Reconciliation without their being used thereto an unsufferable spot would fall upon his infinite Wisdom It would be said he had made noble Powers for no use or but vile Yea and upon his Truth also For it would be said His wrath came not down upon the very children of Vnbelief Contrary to Eph. 5. Of Praying and Labouring for our Possession Perswasion and Practick improvement of Reconciliation unto God the same is to be said We have Natural and surely English people may be supposed to have some Acquired Abilities too If not gracious and supernatural And alas what did God give us these for What a Blemish would it be unto his Wisdom and Government if he should require no use of them unto their chiefest ends But grant us Reconciliation and Assurance and Spiritual Prosperity without them And let it be told through the Earth that he was no Condemner of slothful servants Nor Enemy to such as call not upon his name He bids us pray and labor