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A51033	The way to true honour and happiness A friendly address to all parents, masters of families, and landlords, the persons most capable to honour ... , and to gain honour to themselves, by beginning and carrying on a rational reformation. To which is added, [A] memorandum for mothers. By John Mitchell, M.A.	Mitchell, John, fl. 1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing M2287B; ESTC R221889	23,817	48

Mercy and no Merit to procure his Favour Yea he had no Creature in Heaven not Earth to befriend him nor to interceed for him 5. In this extremity of Misery the infinitely wise and gracious God was pleased to pity Mankind and did promise and in due time sent a Saviour to redeem him and to restore him to Favour and that without any necessity merit or motive but only of his own free Love and abundant Grace Gen. 3. 15. Io. 3. 16. 6. That in and through this Saviour God was graciously pleased to enter into new Terms with Man to make a Covenant o● Grace with him promising Life and Salvation to those who believe and receive him upon the terms that he is offered and denouncing Death and Damnation to those who believe not but despise and reject this Saviour Io. 3. 18 36. Quest. What needs all this Is Sin so great an Evil as to offend God and make Man so miserable Answ. Sin is the greatest Evil in the world 〈…〉 and the only Cause of all other Evil because i 〈…〉 is contrary to the Nature and Will of the● greatest Good It is the only thing in the world that God hates yea he must abhor and● spunish it because it is contrary to his Purity and Holiness and the violation of his Laws● which are holy just and good Hab. 1. 23. So that as the Law of God is violated by 〈…〉 it must be repaired by Suffering either in 〈…〉 Sinner or his Surety For the honour of 〈…〉 d is concerned to vindicate his Justice and 〈…〉 Justice is concerned to maintain his Law Quest. Adam sinned and must I suffer What ●th his sin affect me Answ. Adam being the natural and federal 〈…〉 ent to all Mankind his guilt is reckoned 〈…〉 e his punishment is due to thee his cor 〈…〉 ted nature is inherent in thee and many 〈…〉 of Rebellion and Transgression like unto 〈…〉 ● have been committed by thee And if 〈◊〉 did most justly condemn the whole world 〈…〉 one sin he may likewise most justly con 〈…〉 n thee for many sins Quest. What way then can I be saved Answ. There is Salvation to be obtained 〈…〉 d if thou diligently studiest two Books thou 〈…〉 be thereby disposed to look and long for 〈…〉 Saviour and gladly accept of him being of 〈…〉 d unto thee ● Seriously study the Book of God's Law 〈…〉 be firmly persuaded that all the Precepts 〈…〉 eof are holy just and good and do oblige 〈…〉 inward as well as the outward Man the 〈…〉 rt and Affections as well as Words and 〈…〉 ions and declareth every one accursed 〈…〉 o continueth not in every thing written in 〈…〉 Law to do the same Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10 The Law cannot pass by a Transgression nor 〈…〉 give a Sin ● Diligently acquaint thy self with the Book of thine own Conscience that thou may 〈◊〉 know thy self and thou wilt find that thou ● art a Sinner and a Transgressor of the Holy ● Laws of God both in thoughts words and ● actions Yea thou wilt find that in thy natural and unregenerate State thou dost nothing● but sin Heb. 11. 6. Rom. 8. 7 8. And in thy renewed State thou dost nothing without 〈◊〉 Eccles. 7. 20. 1 Io. 1. 8. Thou wilt find that naturally thou art destitute of the Image of God that thou a● dead in Trespasses and Sins and art by natu●● a child of Wrath and lyable to the just Judgments of God Rom. 5. 18. Ephes. 2. 1 3. That thy whole Man is corrupted and treasures of wickedness in every faculty of thy sou● 1. Thy Understanding is full of Darkne● and Error great ignorance of God and of sp●ritual Things and yet thou would be accounte● wise but art negligent in seeking after use●● Knowledge Eph. 4. 18. 2. Thy Will is obstinate perverse and co●●trary to good rebelling and fighting again●● God and his Law and wholly inclined to Ev●● and Vanity Io. 5. 40. 3. The Conscience is perverted corrupted an● de●iled full of treachery deceit and lies apt 〈…〉 call evil good and good evil and to flatter t 〈…〉 Soul with formal pretences and shadows wit● out sincerity or reality 1 Tim. 4. 2. Tit. 1. 1● 4. The Memory is corrupted and vain a 〈…〉 to forget God dependance upon him and eve● ●●ty towards him both as to matter and 〈…〉 er substance and quality It is apt to re 〈…〉 Wickedness Vanity and Trifles but to let 〈…〉 seful and necessary Truths 5. The Affections and Passions are all cor 〈…〉 ed and abused our admiration our love 〈…〉 anger our hatred our desire our fear our 〈…〉 our grief our anger c. are often em 〈…〉 ed and exercised about things quite con 〈…〉 y to the appointment of God's Law 〈◊〉 that the heart of Man is become a very 〈◊〉 generate thing a sink of Sin and mass of Cor 〈…〉 ion full of Malice Impiety and Impurity 〈…〉 ereby the spiritual and heaven-born Soul is 〈…〉 ome despicable base and miserable a slave 〈◊〉 own Servants yea even to its greatest 〈…〉 mies under the dominion of Sin Satan the 〈…〉 rld and the Flesh. And yet the greatest misery of all is That 〈◊〉 is not sensible of this his miserable condi 〈…〉 he knows it not he is not affected with it 〈…〉 goes light under his load and is chearful 〈…〉 is chains fancying himself safe happy and 〈◊〉 Rev. 3. 17. And why because his mind 〈…〉 nded and his heart hardned For it is of 〈◊〉 nature of sin to blind the Mind and harden 〈◊〉 Heart as well as to de●ile the Conscience 〈◊〉 pollute the Soul That very sin which 〈…〉 es the Man guilty makes him likewise past 〈…〉 ng Eph. 4. 18 19. ●oe is me is this my condition Am I one 〈…〉 hese miserable creatures Am I yet in a natural and unregenerate State I am not safe What shall I do If thou art truly awakened from thy Lethargy and convinced of thy Sin and Misery if thou art deeply humbled under a sense of the same if thou art perswaded that thou canst not be saved by thy own Power thy Skill thy Duties nor thy Merits if thou art so humble that thou art willing to be beholden to another for help and safety yea if thou hast hungring and thirsting Desires after Salvation and art glad to submit to any terms to escape Sin and Misery and to obtain Happiness and Glory Then and not till then art thou fit to hear of Christ the Saviour and to receive that comfortable invitation Mat. 11. 28. Come unto me c. Isaiah 55. 1 2. Christ came to seek and to save such lost Sinners as despair of Salvation any other way He will be a Physitian to such sick Souls Behold the Terms of the Gospel-Covenant If thou truly and sincerely repentest of sin so that thou inwardly loathest and abhorrest it and thy self for being guilty of it If thou truly and sincerely believest in Christ so as to prize