LOVE to the LIFE Or some MEDITATIONS UPON LOVING and WASHING In the Blood of Christ TOGETHER With a Tast of Gospel-Promises as the CHURCHES STOCK or BELIEVERS PATRIMONY By R. M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my Love Jo. 15.9 If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Jo. 13 8. If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and Heirs according to the promise Gal. 3.29 Mala mea purè mala sunt mea sunt Bona autem mea nec pure bona sunt nec mea sunt London Printed for B. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Alley Anno 1674. To the Christian and Candid Reader READER THou mayst wonder to see Me the Benjamin of my Fathers House to add to the Heap and Pile of Books If my wickedly-wicked heart deceive me not not Glory unless of God nor Gain unless of Souls have been the wheels on which I have moved and the grand Incentives to Midwife the Babe into the World A Book may preach when the Author dare not when the Author cannot yea which is more when the Author is not I hope I can say without a Flourish that this Babe had been stifflled in the womb and not seen the Light had not my highest Ambition notwithstanding Brotherly Solicitation been my Fathers Glory and my Fellow Creatures Good Eccl. 12 12 Though of making Books there is no end and much reading is a weariness to the Flesh Yet there are some Books of which I may say as some Phisicians speak of their Pills there are Pilula sine quibus that is sine quibus esse nolo without which they would not be 'T is true the Bible is the Book of Books for that is Gods Book yet there are some Libelli sine quibus some little Books without which I would not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If this little Tract have been preached to the Ear and shall be preâ—ented to the Eye then the strength of Israel imprint it upon the Heart Reader If thou findest not in this Book Much in a Little yet wonder not Job 8.9 for I am but of yesterday and know nothing or not according to the Margent If any say why do this Dwarf trouble the World that 's under a Glut of Books already I shall modestly reply that though wordly praise and profit be the two Lackeys of most mens Labours yet through Grace I have been hunting after neither The Pen by far spreads it self farther then the Voice can reach the Pen is an artificial Tongue and sheaks to the Absent as well as the present yea it speaks not to the present Age only but to the succeeding Ages also The Pen is a kind of Image of Eternity and will make a Man live when He is dead Zach. 1.5 Though the Prophets do not live for ever yet their Labours may Heb. 11.4 ana Abel though dead yet speaketh or is spoken off What Solon saia concerning Laws that there were many good Laws made but there wanted one Law to make them put all those Laws in Execution So I may â—ay concerning Books there are many good Book written but there wanteth one Book to make us put those â—ood Books in practise Oâ— such a Book were worth writing and worth reading Augustine with Ciceroes Hortensius I havâ— read of one that was much taken with the Book of anothâ—r but not finding the name of Christ in it he could not cordyally affect it Reader I doubt not but the Name of Christ who hath a Name above every Name will be Legible in this little little Book for 't is a Narrative according to my Stature of Christs Loving and Washing out of Love I would hope I shall never have cause to say concerning this Book as Nero did concerning a piece of his ultinum nescissem Literas wishing it had never been written God hath two Books his Works and his Word the Book of the Creatures and the Book of the Scriptures As for this latter Book the Holy Scriptures of Truth they are Christs Letters of Credence that when a poor desponding doubting and drooping Souls cannot see Christ it may read of a Christ and hear of a Christ and so hear from a Christ Now though for this Book especially we are to bleâ—s God for as there is a different Reading and what is said of a part is trâ—e of the whole Rev. 1.3 Blessed is he or she that reaâ—eth and they that hear the words of this Prophesie and keep those sayings which are written therein Yet there are many other good Books for which I can bless God especially where there is much of a Christ most of a Christ as Saviour and Soveraign Reader Was not that a sad day when the Apostles who were so good Preachers were forbidden preaching Acts 4.17.18 They called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus So was not that a sad and sinful day in the time of Justin Martyr Clarks Eccles Hist 7. The Proconsul in Asia forbad that Christians should read any Books that spake of Christ In this little little Book thou mayest read of a Jesus the Loving of a Jesus the Washing of a Jesus whose Name is Honey to the Mouth Melody to the Ear and Musick to the Heart Pauls Epistles and Peters Epistles are Ours though not in their Inscriptions yet in their Benefit Words pass away and are forgotten when writing remain Every new Tide blots out a writing in the Sand and every new Term shews the former forgotten but writing deceives even Death it self If this Book should turn to the Good of None yet shall I sing but to the same Tune that others of Gods Servants have done before Me witness this place among others Isa 49.4 Then I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my Judgement is with the Lord and my work or reward with God Reader A pretention to satisfie every Reader were as ridiculous as his Attempt who studied to make a Vestement for the Moon that might fit her for every Interchange If therefore thou beest curious and critical I cannot pretend to the least hope of pleasing Thee for thou wilt I fear be finding faults besides the faults that are to be found But least this Epistle should swell and become tympanious I will give it a timely Check As it is true there is a so believing for there must be a believing with the Heart yea Acts 8.37 with the whole Heart If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And as there is a so repenting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there must be sorrowing after a godly manner or as the Greek is a sorrowing according to God And 2 Cor. 7.9 as there is a so running So run 2 Cor. 9.24 that ye may obtain And as there
as he did to them Mat. 6.30 O thou of little Faith Well art unbelieving yet loved 2 Tim. 2.13 If we believe not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself Art hated yet loved Oh say the Soul 2 Cro. 18.7 I am hated hated by the World hated by Neighbours hated by Relations Oh say the Soul I am hated hated by these and one saith concerning Me as the false King said concerning the true Prophet There is yet one Man by whom we may enquire of the Lord the same is Mecajah but I hate him Well art hated yet loved It is thus with Thee so it is with Me Art hated by Man yet loved by God-Man Ye shall be hated of all Nations Mark 13.13 for my names sake but he that endureth to the end the same shall be saved Art hardned yet loved Oh say the Soul my Heart is hard very hard exceedingly hard unexpressively hard Oh say the Soul as mine Eye is like a Pumice so my Heart is like an Adamant Oh my Heart is hard as a Stone hard as an Adamant-stone concerning which they say that nothing but Goats blood will soften it Oh my Heart is hard hard as a stone hard as a Mil-stone hard as a piece of the nether milstone Well art hardned yet loved I will take away thy stony Heart out of your Flesh and will give you a Heart of Flesh I that can do it will do it Art distressed yet loved Oh say the Soul as my weaknesses are many so my wants are many My Corruption is strong but my Grace is weak my unbelief strong but my Faith weak my pride strong but my Humility weak my Passion strong but my Patience weak Oh say the Soul though I do not want Grace yet I am wanting in Grace though I am not without Grace Glory to the God of Grace for the Grace of God yet I have but a little Grace Oh Sir I am wanting in Grace wanting in every Grace Oh Sir may not I say concerning any Grace yea I do say concerning every Grace as the great Doctor of the Gentiles saith concerning the Churches Faith Night and Day 1 Thess 3.10 praying exceedingly that we might see your Face and might perfect that which is lacking in your Faith Well art distressed yet loved art wanting in Grace in every Grace yet loved My God shall supply all your need Phil. 4.19 according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus Art disserted yet loved Lastly Oh say the Soul 't is Night with Me I am in the dark yea walking in darkness and have no light Oh there 's a cloud interposing between my Soul and my Saviour The Face of God is eclipsed and he seems to cover my Soul with a cloud in his anger Oh say the Soul as it is said Nic. 3 6. the Sun shall go down over the Prophets so the Sun of righteousness is gone done upon my Soul Oh Sir the Lord hath forsaken me Isa 49.14 and my God hath forgotten me Oh I am not only out of the hand of God but also out of the heart of God! Oh I am not forsaken only but forgotten also Well Soul art disserted Isa 54.7 yet loved For a smal Moment have I forsaken Thee but with great Mercies will I gather Thee Beloved Dissertion is the lowest Dreg of a Believers Cup All the Hell that he shall have he hath here he shall have Heaven but nothing but Heaven hereafter Thus Soul ballance Christs Love against all thy SORROWS under all thy SOLITUDES But as I did begin so I must end and where I did begin there I shall end If Christ hath a peculiar People and a peculiar Love for this peculiar People suffer then the words of Exhortation and hold fast this Truth this Text Who loved us Let the World go and Sin go let Self go and Satan go But let not this Text go this Truth go Who loved us Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood And washed us from our Sins iâ— his own Blood THat Christ Loving his Meditation out of Love washeth his and that from their Sins in his own Blood Beloved If the Master of the Assembly please to influence a methodical Discourse to Edification suffer then an innocent Inquiry after these six things 1. What this washing is that is by Christs own Blood 2. What this Sins is that is washed from in Christs own Blood 3. Whether Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood 4. How Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood 5. Why Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood 6. What use may be made of this that Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood What this washing is that is Method by Christs own Blood To this Negatively and then Positively What this washing is not 1 Negatively to this generaly and then partilarly To wash is to purge 1 Generally and make clean Thus the Fishermen were gone out of their Ships washing their Nets Luke 5.2 That is making clean their Nets for Nets by washing are made clean but thus you are not to understand it here There 's a Natural washing 2 Particularly There 's a washing of the hands and feet a washing of the Body and Cloathes for the Body Thus Matth. 15.20 To eat with unwashed hands defileth not a Man But thus you are not to understand it here in the Text And washed us There 's a Moral washing Thus Psa 26.6 I will wash my hands in Innocency so will I compass thine Altar Jehovah But thus you are not to understand it here And washed us There 's a Ceremonial washing Thus Heb. 9.10 Which stood only in Meats and Drinks and divers washings until the time of Reformation But thus you are not to understand it here And washed us There 's a superstitious washing Thus Matth 15.2 Why do thy Disciples transgress the Traditions of the Elders for they wash their Hands when they eat Bread But thus you are not to understand it here And washed us There 's a Miraculous washing Thus John 9.11 Go and wash and I went and washed and I received sight But thus you are not to understand it here And washed us There 's a Spiritual washing 2 Positively There 's a washing from the Guilt of Sin and from the Filth of Sin There 's a Deliverance from a Conscience of Sin and from a Conversation of Sin There 's a washing Sin from off the Soul and so justifying it and a washing the Soul from off Sin and so sanctifying it To these distinctly To wash is to justifie To wash is to redeem and restore Thus Revel 5 9. Thou art worthy to take the Book and open the Seals thereof why for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation To wash is to Sanctifie As to wash is to redeem and restore so to
inquiry after these six things What these Gospel-Believers are Method 1. that have a Gospel-right to promises What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right Whether Gospel Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises Why Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What use may be made of this That Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What these Gospel-Believers are that have a Gospel-right to promises I would hope to arrive thee at a Discovery of a Gospel-Believer under a Discussion of a gospel-Gospel-Faith There is the Habit of Faith and the Act of Faith There 's the Habit of Faith There 's the Seed of Faith or Faith in the Seed The Heart that 's the Soil and Grace that 's the Seed Being born again 1 Petr. 1.23 not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible Grace is the Seed Faith is a Grace if no thee Grace for 't is the leading Grace the Grace that lead the Van of all other Graces Grace is the Seed and this is incorruptible As there is no Grace in Sin so there is no Sin in Grace There 's the Act of Faith As there is the Habit of Faith so there is the Act of Faith Gal. 5.6 As there is the work of Faith so there is a working-working-Faith But Faith which worketh by Love But what manner of Faith Question is this Faith 'T is a Faith that hath Christ for Object Solut. 1 That He might be just Rom 3.26 and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus This Faith hath Christ but not the lying vision of the heart for its Object 'T is a Faith of the Operation of God Faith is a work but 't is Gods work Col. 2.12 'T is expresly called a Faith of the Operation of God As Faith is Gods will so 't is Gods work 'T is a Faith that 's wrought not only by the power of God but by the exceeding greatness of Gods power And what is the super-eminent magnitude of his power to us-ward Eph. 1.19 20. who believe according to the working of the might of his power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead There is concerned in the working of Faith a power aequivalent unto and aequipollent with that power which gave a Resurrection to Christ Jesus 'T is a Faith that hath a Train of good works Jam. 2 18. Shew me thy Faith without thy works and I will shew thee my Faith by my works By works I mean works from a right Principle to right Ends that is works from a gracious Principle to a gracious end works from a Principle of the Grace of God to a promotion of the Glory of God Now though such works are not Essential unto Faith yet they are Evidential unto Faith though they are not the Essence of a lively Faith yet they are the Evidence that Faith lives Jam. 2.26 For as the Body without the Spirit is dead so Faith without works is dead also This is a Gospel-Faith and he or she that hath this Faith is a Gospel-Believer What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel right Promises they say are Absolute or Conditional Absolute promises are Spiritual Absolute and Caelestial As Grace and Glory Redemption and Remission Sanctification and Salvation Conditional promises are temporal Conditional and corporal As Health and Honour Prosperity and Plenty Seed and Substance c. But in short there 's a three fold promise Civil Religious and Divine Civil This is a word passed from Man to Man Civil A Civil promise is a word passed from Man to Man for the performance of some lawful thing as in Contracts and in other affairs Thus Laban made promise to Jacob to give him his Daughters Thus Saul made promise to David not to hurt him and hunt his Soul to take it Thus also Jonathan made promise to David 1 Sam. 19.1 2 3. Religious This is a word passed from Man to God Religious A religious promise is a word passed from Man to God concerning some Duty relating to his Honour This is called a Vow If a Woman also vow a vow unto the Lord. Thus the Psalmist Psa 66.13 14. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows Which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Divine This is a word passed from God to Man Divine A divine promise is a word passed from God to Man concerning the fulfilling of some Good or removing of some Evil Spiritual Psa 119.38 49 50. or Temporal Stablish thy word unto thy Servant who is devoted to thy Fear Remember thy word unto thy Servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me Now Gods promises are Legal or Evangelical Legal Do this and live Thus God passed his word Legal to give eternal life and Creature-Comforts upon condition of performing the Law Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandement with promise But these are not the promises Eph. 6.2 spoken off in the Text To Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Evangelical Thus when God passeth his word freely to give Evangelical freely to give Christ and together with Christ all things freely to give Whereby are given unto us but what promises yea precious promises yea great 2 Pet. 1.4 and precious promises yea exceeding great and precious promises Now these are they they are Gospel-promises unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right Of these my Text speak To Abraham and his Seed were the promises mâ—de Whether Gospel-Believers have a Gospel Right to Gospel-promises It were no hard Task to produce a cloud of witnesses But in the mouth of two or three shall every word be established Gal. 3.22 For instance The Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by the Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Gal. 3.29 If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise Now Gal. 4.28 we Brothren as Isaac was are the Children of promise How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises Through Grace Free-Grace gives a right to the promise Through Grace Promises are Donatives they are free gifts Gal. 3.18 If the Inheritance be of the Law then 't is no more by promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise Here the Inheritance is given that is under promise and the promise is given under which the inheritance is God gave it to Abraeham by promise Through Christ Christ is he first and great Heir Through Christ he is Heir of all things and through â—im Believers inherit the pronise 'T is the Prince of life â—hat gives a propriety in the promise of life For this cause Heb. 9.15 â—e is the Mediatour of
greater then the Love of the Husband to the Wife Conjugâ—l Love is at least ought to be great Love The Love of Abraham to Sarah was great of Isaac to Rebecca was great of Jacob to Rackel was great of Elkanah to Hannah was great of Augustus to his Livia was great who dyed in the Embraceme is of her with these words Livia nostri Conjugii memoresto vive vale which may thus be Englished Livia remember we were one live and farewell Man and Wife are one flesh and if both be living one Spirit so that this Love must needs be great but Christs is greater Husbands Eph. 5.25 love your Wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Where is there a Husband that gives himself for his Wife that gives himself to death for his Wife Or if he should what would it signifie She could never say with the Text who loved me and washed me from my Sins in his Blood This must not be said of any blood but Christs is not this then a peculiar Love Spiritual Christs Love is greater then the Spiritual Love of Christians Jonathans love to David was great and Davids love to Jonathan was great but Christs is greater what 's a spark to the Furnace a drop to the Ocean Such is the Love of Man to the Love of Christ God manifest in the flesh 'T is true David speaks very honourably of Jonathans Love 2 Sam. 1.26 Thy Love to me have been wonderfull passing the Love of Women But Christs Love is greater Christs Love is greatest Jo. 14.13 Greater Love hath no Man then this that a Man lay down his life for his Friend Christ laid down his life for Enemies as Enemies when and while Enemies Is not this now a peculiar Love What use may be made of this Lastly that Christ hath a peculiar Love for his peculiar People Hath Christ a peculiar Love for his peculiar People USE This then may be useful by way of Caution by way of Comfort by way of Councel Is Christs Love a peculiar Love By way of Caution take heed then of turning Love into Lust and loving kindness into lasciviousness To do evil that good may come and to be sinful because God is merciful and to be lustful because Christ is Love-ful is the Sophistry of the Prince of Darkness Dost argue from Grace to Sin from Love to Lust from Mercy to Iniquity from Immunity unto Impiety this is the Dialect of Hell and the Sophistry of the Prince of Darkness Rom. 3.8 Oh how do the Apostle thunder against such we are slanderously reported and some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just Art loved be joyous Soul thou art more then a Conquerour through him that loveth By way of Comfort Oh you that have the Love of Christ shed abroad in your hearts by the Spirit of Christ this Text as a Cordial under your fainting Fits Who loved us Art tempted or troubled pained or panged distressed or disserted yet loved Me Duce vinces Rom. 8.37 who loved us Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerors but how through him that loved us Not only Conquerors but more then Conquerors It is a compound word and signifies more then simply to overcome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we greatly overcome we over and above overcome we overcome above measure or exceeding gloriously we do more then overcome we do Over-overcome as the Greek seem to read it It may well be read thus But in all these things we Over-overcome through him that loved us In all these things but what things were these These things ye may run and read Rom. 8.35 What shall separate us from the Love of God shall Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famine or Nakedness or Peril or Sword Here are seven bitter Dishes and shall these No In all these things we do Over-overcome Is not any one of these Dishes enough for any pallate in the World yet not one of these not any of these yea not all these shall separate from the Love of God But in all these things we do Over-overcome but how through him that loved us Now that thy Cup may be filled with Joy and Peace like the water pots of Galilee up to the very Brim suffer me to tell thee that Christs Love is the most sutable and soveraign Cordial Christs Love is the most sutable Cordial Those Cordials are most efficacious that are most natural and most suiting the Spirits Gal. 2.20 Christs Love is the Christians Life I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Christs Love falls in with the Life of a Christian and therefore most sutable Christs Love is the most soveraign Cordial As Gods Love when he gave Christ is put for all Causes Jo. 3.16 So God loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son So Christs Love when Christians get comfort is put for all Cordials Is not that a lofty as well as a lovely Expression of the great Doctor of the Gentiles Rom. 8.38 39. For I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers Nor things present nor things to come Nor Height nor Depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Soul Christs Love contain in it the sum of the Gospel Christ being the sum of the Gospel and Love the sum of Christ God so loved the World that he gave Christ and Christ so loved the World that he gave himself contain in it the Pith and Marrow of all the Gospel This little word Love written in the golden letters of free-Grace in the blood of Jesus Christ is an Epitomy of the Gospel The Life of Christ was a perfect Mirror of his Love every action of it was full of Love and if we put all the Actions of his life together we may conclude that he was not born so much to Live as to Love Was there a word that dropped from his Lips but was sull of Love And as for his works they all speak Love so loud that the deafest ear may hear it Should we begin at the Temple where Christ disputed with the Doctors and â—low him to the Mount where 〈◊〉 was crucified by the Soulâ—ers we should see all the way â—ewed with Love-Reses Now 〈◊〉 loved then this Christ is â—hy Christ and this Love â—hy Love and is not this â—â—tter of Joy Go away then â—â—d be filled with Joy and â—ace through Believing Oh but there are Achans withâ—â— Object 1 Sauls within the Sons of â—erviab within Oh there are â—any Blots in my Scutcheon â—any Weeds in my Garden â—uch Rubbish in my House â—any Holes in my Coat much â—eâ—ven in my Heart Oh no â—eart like unto Mine Soul Solut. Christs Loâ—â— is greater â—en thy Lust and his Mercy â—en thine Iniquity If the Sun â—e
regenerate and renew As to pardon so to purifie As to deliver from the Guilt so from the Filth of Sin Thus Tit. 3.5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the holy Spirit But both these justifying and Sanctifying you have connected and connexed 1 Cor. 6.11 And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Now thus if I mistake not you are to understand it in the Text who washed us that is who justified us from the Guilt and sanctified us from the Filth of our Sins in his own Blood And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood What this Sin is that is washed from in Christs own Blood Sin in the Nature and Motion of it is a Transgression of the Law Sin supposeth a Law in being Rom. 4.15 For where there is no Law there is no Transgression But where there is Sin there is a Law and a Transgression of that Law 1 Jo. 3.4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth the Law for sin is a Transgression of the Law Yea Sin is not only the Transgression of a Law but of a good Law Rom. 7.12 For the Law is holy and the Commandement holy and just and good Yea the Transgression not only of a good Law but of Gods Law Psa 89.30 31. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Commandements If they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandements Now the Law not only forbids the doing of evil whether in thought word or deed but also commands the doing of Good so that to omit the Good commanded as well as to commit the Sin forbidden is Sin whatever therefore doth transgress the Law of God in whole or in part is Sin whether it break an Affirmative or a Negative precept that is whether it be the Omission of Good or the Commission of Evil. From this all this Christs blood washeth And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Whether Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood As it is true none in Heaven nor on Earth nor under the Earth could open the Book and unloose the seven Seals thereof it is as true none in Heaven nor on Earth nor under the Earth can justify a guilty Soul and sanctifie a filthy Soul but Christ unto this my text speaks Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Eze. 16.9 Then washed I thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy Blood from thee thy Bloods from thee according to the Margent Then when when I passed by thee Eze. 16 6. When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted or troden under foot in thine own Blood I said unto thee Live Yea when thou wast in thy blood I said unto thee Live But what I is this This Jehovah God Thus saith Jehovah Eze. 16.3 God unto Jerusalem c. Now this Jeâ—ovah is God or Christ for the Son hath the same name with the Father Jer. 23.6 This is the name whereby he shall be called Jehovah our Righteousness 'T is Christ that washeth Eze. 36.25 26 27. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgements and do them But in short If to wash be to justifie then Souls are washed in Christs own Blood Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace but how through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus And if to wash be to sanctifie then Souls are washed in Christs own Blood Hâ—b 13.12 Christ that he might sanctifie the People with his own blood suffered without the Gate How Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood Christ washeth three wayes by his Word by his Spirit and by his Blood By his Word Christ hath appointed and approved his word as a means leading unto this end Jo. 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy Truth thy word is Truth As to wash is to justifie so to sanctifie Now though the word can do nothing without Christ no more then the Instrument can without the hand yet this Instrument together with the hand can justifie a condemned Creature and sanctifie a contâ—minated Creature By his Spirit The word that 's as the wax the Spirit that 's as the Seal upon that wax The Spirit indeed is the principal verb in the Sentence Sanctification properly is the work of the Spirit For as it is the proper work of the Fâ—ther to elect and of the Son to redeem so of the Spirit to sanctifie those Elected and Redeemed 'T is therefore called the Sanctification of the Spirit Ye are chosen unto Salvation 2 Thess 2.13 through Sanctification of the Spirit By his Blood As Christ washeth through his Word and through his Spirit so through his Blood But how may Christ be said Question to wash from Sin in his own Blood There is a virtual Solut. and an actual washing in Christs blood That is there is a Satisâ—action given to God for Man and a sanctification wrought in Man Virtual There is a satisfaction given to God Beloved There is the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ concerning his Active himself speaks I have finished the work Jo. 17.4 which thou gavest me to do Concerning his Passive himself also speaks It is finished Jo. 19.30 Here was the Cross and Crucifixtion of Christ as the Complement of All. These two his Active and Passive Obedience were jointly and equally concerned in giving Satisfaction to infinite Justice Now concerning these two his Action and Passion if I mistake not God saith Mat. 3.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Or according to the Greek in whom I acquiesce God did acquiesce in him as Son as Mediator of the promise as one that did and dyed and so satisfied Christ himself did not only arrive at a Satisfaction by his Action and Passion but if I may speak it without Levity and with a holy Reverence arrived God at a Satisfaction by his Doing and Dying and that for All for whom he gave himself and unto whom he hath given and shall give himself Both which I think are legible in that oâ— the Prophet Isa 53.11 He shall see of thâ— Travel of his Soul and be â—atisfied by his knowledge shall mâ— righteous Servant justifie many for he shall bear their Iniquities Actual There is a Sanctification wrought in Man A there is a Satisfaction give
long Though there he silence here there 's suffering else where Oh though there be peace now there may beware ere long Though there be prosperity now there may be adversity ere long Oh though it be Summer now it may be Winter ere long Though the Woman be in the Wilderness Solution yet she shall come out Cant. 8.5 leaning upon her Beloved Soul art loved though thou beest or shouldest be in Tribulation yea in great Tribulation yet thou mayest come out of that great Tribulation These are they that came out of great Tribulation Rev. 7.14 having washed their Robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Now wilt thou that art loved and universally washed from thy Sins in Christs own blood go away with thy countenance sad Oh Soul pluck a Cluster from this Vine and take a Drop from this honey-comb Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Doth Christ wash from Sin in his own Blood By way of Counsel Suffer then the words of Exhortation Now here I would speak to the unwashed and the washed Art not washed Go then to Christ for washing To the unwashed No more shall have a Crown then have a Christ shall have Glory then have Grace and shall have Happiness then have Holiness If therefore thou wouldest be justified before God and sanctified before Man go to Christ If I wash thee not Jo. 13 8. and 't is Christ that speaks it thou hast no part with Me. Whether would ye go whether should ye go whether will ye go whether can ye go but unto Christ who loveth and washeth from Sin in his own Blood Art unwashed go then to Christ for washing But is it Christs will Question 1 as well us Christs work that I should go to him to be washed As it is Christs work to wash Answer so it is Christs will that thou shouldest be washed 1 Thess 4.7 This is the will of God even your sanctification Now God and Christ will and nill the same things But may those that are unwashed Quest 2 go to Christ to be washed As unto whom Answer should an unwashed Soul go but unto Christ So none but unclean Souls Souls sensible of their Vlcers and Vncleanness will go to Christ to be washed Mat 9.12 The whole need no Physitian that is see no need of a Physician but those that are sick But did ever a Soul Quest 3 so unclean as I go to Christ to be washed Oh! I am a Gehaziâ— he was no fuller of Leprosie 〈◊〉 then I am of Sin and yet he went out of his Masters presence a Leper as white as Snow A Sinner thou art Answer and no more thou art now though a Sinner be a Subject of misery yet an object of Mercy Luk. 19. The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Quest 4 If I must go to Christ to be washed in his Blood then what manner of Blood is Christs Blood Beloved My Line Answer will not sound this Bottom for it is a bottomless Bottom but I will let it down for Christ can make a Feast of a Fragment Take a Tast though but a Tast Christs Blood is a Heart-softning blood The heart of Man is stony yea like an Adamant stone concerning which stone they say that nothing but Goats-blood will soften it Oh Soul though thy heart be like an Adamant-stone yea like the nether Milstone yet the blood of Christ can soften it I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh Eze. 11.19 and will give them a heart of flesh Christs Blood is a justifying blood Justification is a great thing and a gracious thing indeed to be acquitted from 〈◊〉 and Death and accounted righteous unto Life and Glory â—o not this great greatly great This is through Christs blood That being justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 we should be saved from wrath through him Christs Blood is a Sin-mortifying blood Beloved ye must look upon your Sin as that which was the death of your Lord and ye must look upon the death of your Lord as that which is the death of your Sin Our old Man is crucified with him Rom. 6.6 that the body of Sin may be destroyed Christs Blood is purchasing blood There was little paid for the Saviour they sold him for thirty pieces of Silver but there was much paid for the Sinner Ye are not redeemed with corruptable things 1 Pet. 1.18 19. there 's the Negative part but what are these Silver and Gold But if Silver and Gold cannot what can the blood of Christ can but with the precious blood of Christ Ye are not redeemed with corruptable things as Silver and Gold but with the precious blood of Christ The blood of Christ is the price of Redemption Christs Blood is pardoning blood Oh what wearisome days and nights have many Souls but what 's the reason they want a pardon Do not these say at night oh that it were morning And in the morning oh that it were night Oh how can you rest day or night that are without a pardon Christs blood is pardoning blood Col. 1.14 In whom we have Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of Sins Christ Blood is pleading blood Abels blood did plead against the Offender but Christs blood plead for the Believer Abels blood did cry for vengeance Heb. 12.24 but Christs blood cry for Mercy 'T is called the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel Christs Blood is a pacifying blood Christs blood is the blood of Atonement No sooner was Haman executed but Ahasuerus was appeased No sooner was Christ crucified but God was pacified And you Col. 1.21 22. that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled but how in the body of the flesh through death Christs Blood is a procuring blood Our Sins did shut Heavens gate but the blood of Christ is the Key that open the gate of Paradise for us 'T is Christ that hath the Key of David opening and no man shutting shutting and no man opening Loved ones have boldness to enter into the holiest Heb. 10.19 but how by the blood of Jesus Christs Blood is pure blood Beloved we have our Blots in our Scutcheons our Weeds in our Gardent our Rubbish in our Houses our Leaven in our Hearts our Holes in our Coats but Christ had none in His. Impure blood run in our veins but only pure blood run in His. He Heb. 4.15 was in all points tempted like as we are yet without Sin Christs Blood Lastly is purifying blood As the blood of Christ is a blood of value and of Merit so 't is a blood of Vertue and Spirit This blood is a Laver to wash in it washeth a Crimson Sinner Milk-white Now this is if I mistake not a part of the washing in the Text And washed
us form our Sins in his own Blood Doth Christ wash from Sin To the washed in his own Blood sense then thy Heart with the Nature of Sin Sin defileth the Soul and Christs Blood must go to wash it Sin makes man a perfect Black and 't is Christs Blood must make him perfectly White Tit. 1.15 Vnto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their Mind and Cinscience is defiled Doth Christs Blood wash from Sin Take then a view here of mans insufficiency to wash himself Jer. 13.23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots Man any man must live in his ulcers lye in his ulcers dye in his ulcers and be damned for his ulcers if Christ in his own Blood wash him not from his ulcers Doth Christs Blood wash from Sin pray then for the Blood of sprinkling upon all thy Sacrifices and Service It was the saying of One Oh trust not in Man that shall dye Earl of Strafford nor in the Son of Man that shall be made as Grass There 's no Confidence in Princes the only thing that stands by a man is the Blood of Christ and the Testimony of a good Conscience And I have read of another Mr. Herbert whose saying was when he heard any of his good works mentioned Ah! it is a good work if it be washed in the Blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1.2 Of this blood the Apopostle speaks And sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ Doth Christs Blood wash from Sin wonder then the Riches of free-Grace Washing is but an effect and Consequent of Loving Here 's loving and then washing yea washing from Sin from all Sin and that in Blood yea in Christs own Blood Who loved Me and gave himself for Me. That is Gal. 2.20 who loved Me and out of love gave himself to Death for Me. Doth Christ wash from Sin in his own Blood Improve then this Text and Truth as an Antidote to expel Poyson May not this Text serve and be improved as a Counter-poyson And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood May not this Text and Truth be improved as an Electuary for the Soul And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood For instance Art tempted yet washed Oh say the Soul I am tempted dayly tempted greatly tempted tempted to curse God and die Job 2.9 Art tempted yet washed here 's an Antidote for this poyson And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Art troubled yet washed Oh say the Soul I see all things come alike to all There 's no new thing under the Sun Oh I am troubled troubled on every side and my Troubles come like waves 2 Cor. 4.8 Art troubled yet washed And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Art reproached yet washed Oh say the Soul I suffer much in my name and am accounted an Achan 1 Cro. 2.7 the Troubler of Israel Art reproached yet washed And washed us Art hardned yet washed Oh say the Soul my heart is like an Adamant harder then a Flint Ezech. 3.9 Art hardned yet washed And washed us Art hated yet washed Oh say the Soul I am hated hated of Relations It may be said of them concerning me as was of Ammon concerning Tamar 2 Sam. 13.15 That the hatred where with they hate me is greater then the love where with they have loved Me. Art hated yet washed And washed us Art poor yet washed Oh say the Soul I am poor I am like the poor Widow Mark 12.42 that had her two Mites which made but a Farthing Art poor yet washed And washed us Art persecuted yet washed Oh say the Soul I am hunted hunted as a Partridge in the mountains 1 Sam. 26 20. Art persecuted yet washed And washed us Art unbelieving yet washed Oh say the Soul my Faith is at a low Ebb and like the Noblemans Son Jo. 4 47. at the point of death Art unbelieving yet washed And washed us Art weak yet washed Oh say the Soul I am weak the outward man weakens dayly weakens greatly Oh I may say with the Apostle the time of my departure is at hand 2 Tim. 4.6 Art weak yet washed And washed us Art disserted Lastly yet washed Oh say the Soul 't is Night now Midnight now Oh the Face of God is hid now not a smile and a shine now not a glimps and a glaunce now Oh I may say as the Psalmist doth Psal 30.7 thou didst hide thy Facc and I was troubled Art disserted yet washed And washed us May not now this Text and Truth be improved as an Antidote Christ loving his washeth his yea out of love to his washeth his and that from Sin in his own Blood Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood THE Churches Stock OR Believers Patrimony Gal. 3.16 former part But to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made IF there be a Context I shall humbly take leave of that In the Text you have the Persons and the Predicate The Persons Abraham and his Seed His Seed what Seed His Believing Seed his Spiritual Seed his Seed by the free-Woman And that this is the Seed you may run and read in the words following the Text He saith not And to Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ Not Ishmael and Isaac but Isaac and not Ishmael Not Esau and Jacob but Jacob and not Esau not those born after the Flesh but those born after the Spirit And to thy Seed which is Christ of whom Isaac was a lively and a lovely Type To Abraham and his Seed And to thy Seed which is Christ Now in that compleat Genealogy of Christ Luke the third you have among other things this Luke 3 34. who was the Son of Abraham And to thy Seed which is Christ that is Christ and all that are Christs Christ and all that are chosen and called in and by Christ both Jews and Gentiles And that this is thee Seed of Abraham who is stiled the Father of the Faithful is evidently evident Rom. 9. from the sixth to the fourterth Verse The Predicate That which is spoken concerning these is that the promises were made unto these To Abraham and his Seed were the promises made The Persons are Believers and the Promises are their Patrimony Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made That those all those Meditation and only those who are Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises That Abraham was a Believer who doubts And that this Seed which are called his Seed are Believers none need to doubt by what I think I have already written So that what I have made the matter of my Meditation and presented as the Doctrinal-Truth doth without straining arise out of the Text. That Gospel-believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel promises In the prosecution of this proposition suffer an innocent
If I do not fall by the hands of this Corruption I may fall by the hands of that Temptation And if I fall not by the hands of that Temptation I may fall by the hands of this Corruption But Soul art a Gospel-Believer then thou hast a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises that in the promises thou mayst read a promised Strength and Support under Temptation under Corruption God by the Prophet speaking of Abraham his Friend and his Seed makes and leaves a precious promise Fear thou not Isa 41.8.10 why for I am with thee be not dismaid why for I am thy God but what then I will strengthen Thee yea I will help Thee yea I will uphold Thee by the right hand of my righteousness Here ye may read under promise the presence and the power of God Strength and Support from God Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Oh say the Soul I am weak weak as water saith God I will strengthen Oh say the Soul the work is too hard for me and too much for me saith God I will help Oh say the Soul I may flay by the way fail by the way fall by way No saith God I will uphold thee ane that by the right hand of my righteousness What use may be made of this that Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises These are three Uses Terror Trial Triumph Art an Unbeliever tremble then for thou hast at present no Gospel By way of Terror Right to Gospel-promises Oh Soul thou canst never look upon the promise of life as thine until thou canst look upon Prince of life as thine Providential Mercies fall upon all Creatures but the promises of Mercies and Mercies in the promises are setled upon the Spouse as her proper and peculiar Dowry If therefore to hast no Gospel-propriety to the Prince and Saviour thou hast no Gospel-propriety to the promise of Life and Salvation Art in a state of Unbelief Oh how may trembling then take hold upon thee for thou hast no Gospel-right to any Gospel-promise Whether thou hast a decretive right I know not but a declarative right thou hast not for to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Is not that a sad word At that time Eph. 2.12 ye were without Christ without Christ what then Soul is it nothing to be without Christ To be without the Prince of Life is to be without the promise of life Christ is the first and grand promise the seed of the woman all after promises are but as so many Comments upon this first and grand promise Christ Is it nothing then to be without Christ But what follows Being aliens of the Common-wealth of Israel and Strangers from the Covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the World Did Spira say when his Friends were reading of comfortable promises about the death of Christ read no more read no more read no more they are Cordials to others they are Corrasives to me Oh what mayst thou then say that art in a state of unbelief I would have more Charity for him then for thee if thou beest an Unbeliever for to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Have Gospel-Believers a Gospel-Right By way of Tâ—ial to Gospel-promises Try then whether thou hast a Gospel-right The Questions now will be these But how shall I know Questio 1 that I have a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises Hast Christ Solut. then thou hast a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises If Christ be thine all is thine What one sâ—id of Antiquity Christus meus omnia Antiqua mea Christus meus my Antiquity is my Christ I may say of propriety proprietas mea Christus meus propriety is my Christ Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give unto us all things But how shall I know that Christ is mine Quest 2 Hast the Spirit Solution then thou hast Christ 1 Jo. 3.24 By this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us This is an infallible Evidence But how shall I know that I have the Spirit Quest 3 Hast the Fruits of the Spirit Solut. then thou hast the Spirit Though there may be a Tree without Fruit yet there cannot be Fruit without a Tree Now the Spirit is not a barren but a bearing Tree it bears Variety and Rarity it bears Variety as Love Joy Peace long-suffering gentleness Gal. 5.22 23. goodness Faith Meekness Temperance it also bears Rarity Faith Love c. such Fruit as this I will take but one of the Top-fruits of this Tree and that 's Faith Hast Faith a Faith that hath Christ for Object Christ for Author Christ for Actor then thou hast the Spirit and a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises To Abraham and his Seed were the promises made He that believeth on the Son of God 1 Jo 5 10. hath the witness in himself Where this Faith is there is the Spirit he that hath the Spirit hath Christ and he that hath Christ hath a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises But how shall I know when a promise is given from God Quest 4 Oh I fear I take promises before they are given of God! Then a promise is given of God â—â—lut 1. when it comes not in word onely A promise from God comes in word 1 Thâ—s 1.5 but not in word onely but in power and in the hely Spirit Our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power and in the holy Spirit and in much assâ—rance A promise come in word there must be a word yea this the written word or at least something aequivalent unto the written Word yet it comes not in words only but also in power Then a promise comes from God when the Soul is enabled and influenced to receive it That we might receive the promise of the Spirit Now this receiving is believing for Faith is the Souls hand Jâ— 1.12 To as many us received him to them gave he power or priviledge to become the Sons of God but who are these Even to as many as believe to his Name For the Soul to say this is the word of God and through Grace I believe it when the Soul can say concerning a promise as Paul said concerning the safety of the Souls under the loss of the Ship I believe God that it shall be as it was told me So when the Soul can believe the promise this promise is mine c. then 't is given from God Then a promise is given from God when 't is engraven upon the heart 'T is true Satan can produce Scriptures and present promises but when promises are written upon the heart then they come from God When the Soul keep a fresh sense of the promise upon the heart and can say with the Psalmist I remember the dayes of old it looks then as if it were given
from God 2 Cor. 3.2 3. Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts known and read read of all Men For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by us written not with Ink but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshly tables of the heart Are there not some of you here that remember the very first promise wherein Christ and your Souls met and you cannot forget that and other promises also Then a promise is given from God when it sutes the Souls condition For instance Art tempted Oh say the Soul my Temptations are wanton and wicked horrid and sordid brutish and blasphemous Blessed is the Man Jam. 1.12 that endureth Temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him Now this suit is the Souls condition Art afflicted Oh say the Soul I can look no way but I may say Gad a Troop commeth My afflictions come like waves no sooner is one affliction over but another commeth Isa 63.9 In all their affliction he was afflicted He was affected with their affliction and they had his Affection under their Affliction This word sutes the present Condition Art persecuted Oh say the Soul 2 Cor. 4.9 Saul hunts after my Soul to take it Persecuted but not forsaken Though persecuted of Man yet not forsaken by God This falls in with the Souls condition and so looks like a word given from God Art disserted Oh say the Soul the Sun of Righteousness is gone down upon me and there 's a Cloud interposing between my Soul and my Saviour Isa 54.7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee Doth not this sute the Condition of the Soul Art reproached Oh say the Soul they lay to my charge things that I know not Mat. 5.11 Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and speak all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Is not this word sutable Art impoverished Oh say the Soul my Barrel is empty and my Cruse empty Ps 34.10 The young Lyons do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing They shall not want any thing that is good that is for their good Is not this promise sutable and seasonale Art Unbelieving Oh say the Soul my Faith is at a low Ebb and I cannot make conclusion of Light in Darkness of Life in Death which is the true Logick of Faith 2 Tim 2.12 If we believe not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself If not this a sutable word Art mourning Oh say the Soul mine Eye is like a Limbeck continually dropping I Isa 51.12 even I am he that comforteth thee Not I and another not I or another but I even I am he that comforteth thee This falls in with the present state Dost want Pardon Oh say the Soul I want a sight and a Sense of Pardon There 's no Salvation without Remission and yet I want a Sight and a Sense of that Isa 43.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy Sins Is not this proper Hast back-sliden Oh say the Soul I have a sliding foot and a back-sliding Heart Hos 15.4 I will heal their back-sliding I will love them freely Is not this a proper promise Dost fear Oh say the Soul Lastly I fear I shall fall by the strength of this Temptation or this Corruption 2 Cor. 12.9 My Grace is sufficient for Thee for my power is made perfect in weakness A promise thus coming sutes the Souls condition and seems to me to be a promise given from God Art a Believer Triumph then thy Salvation is under Promise Soul By way of Triumph though Salvation be a great thing though it be a Soul-Salvation a Spiritual Salvation an eternal Salvation yet this Salvation is under promise and is entailed upon believing 1 Pet. 1 9. Receiving the End of your Faith the Salvation of your Souls As Faith shall have an End so there is the end of Faith and that 's Salvation receiving the end of your Faith even the Salvation of your Souls There must be believing till Faith come to an end if at the End you would receive the End of your Faith even the Salvation of your Souls When Faith shall have an End then shall the Soul have the End of Faith and that 's Salvation Receiving the end of your Faith even the Salvation of your Souls Soul take a Drop into thy Bucket pluck a Cluster from this Vine Gospel-Promises they are as it were the Veins of Christ whereby his Bloud is carried into all his body the Church Gospel-promises they are the Treasures of Comforts they are the Churches Stock they are the Believers Patrimony To Abraham and his Seed were â—he Promises made Heb. 6.17 It is the Priviledge and Dignity of true Believers to be called heirs of the Promise Oh Question but a Cloud seems to be impending Is not Sin reeling still Is not Satan raging still What course shall I now steer for the bitterness of Death is not yet past Solution Make Judgment of Gods Faithfulness not according to his Providences but according to his Promises God hath promised to keep his People and he will keep his Promise Providences may work counter but Promises are the same and are sure Whatever is uncertain the promise is sure An Estate may be lost Relations may dye and go to the Grave of Silence but the Promise is sure and the same Therefore it is of Faith Rom. 4.16 that 〈◊〉 might be by Grace why to the end the promise might be sure tâ— all the Seed To all the Seed but what Seed is this not 〈◊〉 that onely which is of the Law but to that also which is of thâ— Faith of Abraham who is thâ— Father of us all Now that thâ— Soul may be filled like thâ— water pots of Galilee up tâ— the very Brim with Joy and Peace through believing suâ—fer me to tell thee that thâ— promises are sure and the same For They are hid in the Scripture That the Gentiles should be feâ—low heirs Eph. 3.6 and of the same body and partakers of his promise but how through the Gospel They are hid in the Heart With the heart man believeth unto Righteousuess Rom. 10.12 and with the mouth â—onfession is made unto Salvation They are hid in Christ All â—â—e Promises of God 2 Cor. 1.20 in Him that is in Christ are YEA â—nd in him AMEN unto the â—lory of God by us But to end as I did begin Divine Promises they are hid â—n the Scripture but should that be made a Sacrifice then they are hid in the Heart Gospel-Promises they are hid in the Heart but should that be made a Sacrifice then they are â—id in Christ and are they not sure enough there Oh Soul â— am sure there they are sure Now Gospel-Believers have 〈◊〉 Gospel-Right to Gospel-Promises Art a Believer of â—he right Stamp these Promises then are thine and wilt thou go away with a Countâ—nance sad Oh Soul opeâ— thy mouth wide that it maâ— be filled with Grace and Peace For To Abraham and his Secâ— were the Promises made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 2.14 FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Books to be Sold by Beniamin Harris at the Sign of the Stationers Arms in Swithins Alley in Corn-hill near the Royal Exchange WAr with the Devil or The Young Mans Conflict with the Powers of Darkness By B. 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