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A30270 A call to sinners such as are under sentence of death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long-suffering and gracious, but most righteous God / by His servant, Daniel Burgess. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1689 (1689) Wing B5695; ESTC R23828 12,715 36

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if thou canst is it any thing but Compulsion by fear of being damn'd without them that causeth thy choice Sinner I would have thee know 'T is from Christ working in thee by his Spirit that thou turnest from sin so as thou dost That thy Will to sin is dead even so much as a Tree in Winter That thou chusest Christ and his spirit tho' but for their Benefits and but on Compulsion Without divine Drawing thou hadst never come so far it self But wo be to thee that ever thou wast born if thou art not drawn and dost not come farther If thou dost not come into real and gracious Marriage-union unto the Lord Jesus Christ O go Labour Pray and Wait to be enabled to say the four particulars that follow as ever thou wouldst get able to say I am passed from death to Life P. 1. I now see the Necessity of Vnion to Christ and unto God by Christ God and Man were at first United closely tho' not inseparably Sin undid us by Disuniting us By destroying the Relation and Kin we had unto God and of Children making us Aliens and Strangers Religion is nothing at all less than Re-Union unto God. A return unto our first Kin and Relation unto Him. Such Kin as that of Father and Child such Relation as that of Friend and Friend Now hereunto no return can be made but by Union first made unto Jesus Christ Joh. 1.12 Such an Union to him as that which is betwixt Husband and Wife betwixt Head and Members bewixt Root and Branches betwixt Foundation and Stones built on it These similitudes the Holy Scripture useth and he that takes them for insignificant cyphers blasphemeth P. 2. I now see the Nature of this so necessary Vnion unto Jesus Christ 'T is the foresaid Relation and Kin by mutual Consent and Covenant made By threefold Consent God is willing that his Son Christ as Mediator should become so nearly related unto us Christ's will is always one and the same with his Fathers and He is declared most willing We sinful Fugitives and Aliens are never willing till infinite Grace by almighty Power makes us willing Nor ever are we took into the Relation we speak of till we are made so And are brought to an hearty Consent unto the Marriage-Covenant Which consent is indeed saving Faith. Consenting thereunto is believing and believing on is marrying unto Christ Jesus as appears Joh. 1.12 c. And this great work being done we are instantly a-Kin unto our blessed Lord. Related as near as a Wife is unto an Husband I and Related unto God as a Wife is unto her Husband's Father Christ MEDIATOR is our Husband and God is Our Father by the Law of grace My Father and your Father saith that gracious Husband Joh. 20.17 P. 3. I now see what that Covenant of Grace is whereto our consent given doth make the foresaid Vnion It consists I see in Promises and Demands Promises of good things unto us and Demands of duty from us The Promised Mercies I comprise in four 1. GRACE Both Grace Justifying and Absolving from the guilt of sin and Grace Sanctifying or Abolishing by degrees the Power of sin Heb. 8.10 12. 2. BREAD I mean all the necessary good things of this Life Enough of them to bear our charges to Heaven 1 Tim. 4.8 3. GLORY That is both Excellency and Eternity of all desirable good in the next World. 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Pet. 1.4 4. CHILDREN'S BLESSING An entail of good things for our sakes tho' not our merits upon our Children Rom. 11.28 Exod. 20.6 Acts 2.39 The Duty demanded is also considerable in four particulars 1 REPENTANCE An Heart-renting for sin and from it A First one necessary unto our acceptation into a Justifyed state an After-one continued necessary unto our sense of Justification and unto our daily Pardons Act. 2.38 Luk. 13.3 2 FAITH Assent unto the Gospel Revelations Consent unto the Precepts Reliance upon the promises Act. 16.31 Mar. 16.16 3. NEW OBEDIENCE Conformity of the whole man unto the whole Rule of the Gospel in Natural Civil and Religious actions 2 Thes 1.8 1 Pet. 4.17 4 PERSEVERANCE Or strict and precise adherence unto that conformity in all times places companies and conditions unto Lifes end Rev. 2.10 Our Holy Baptism and the Lord's supper do both Encourage our belief of God's fulfilling the promises of this Covenant and Engage us on our parts to fulfil the Demands of it in the strength of Christ And they would of all Ordinances be the most helpful if the Nature Ends and Vses of them were duly Taught by Ministers and Learn'd by People P. 4. I now feel my hearts free and full consent to this said Covenant of grace Unto the Acceptation of it's promised Benefits for my only Portion and Enjoyment and unto the Acceptation of its demanded Duties for my only Business and Employment in this world Blessed be free grace I do accept both And my Soul that was so far from God is made nigh The Objections of my mind and oppositions of my will are routed Grace in Christ has conquer'd my Enmity against God as Holy and my fear of Him as my Enemy His offered Son I have Accepted his Person with his Benefits I have taken Him for my Husband Teacher Saviour Ruler As the only Mediator to Reconcile God unto me and to Communicate grace to me from God. Now is Father Son and Spirit my enjoyed Portion and my served Lord again I have entred into an Oath and a Curse and bound my self at my everlasting peril Him only to serve Him only to enjoy With engaged heart with opened mouth with a fix'd hand and seal I have obliged my self to have no other God but Him no Mediator but his Son no Ruler but his Spirit no Rule but his Word The Word of his ever Blessed Covenant well ordered in all things and sure which is all my salvation and all my desire Oh Reader I have heard of a sinner who twice heard a Voice from Heaven as he thought it saying Make haste make haste and yet he a prodigious Adder died a Sinner Be it far from thee to be so obstinate Wilt thou tell me Obj. 1. That I mistake thee and that thou art no such great Sinner though it be thy lot to have been drawn away by ill Company and to have miscarryed of late Answ Alas alas if so blind and senseless what hope of thee However the Lord who is only able shall be intreated to make thee Understand 1. Every sinner is a great one for no sin is small the least of sins against God deserves Death eternal 2. By Nature thou art a Child of Wrath and Enemy of God. 3. All thy Life of Vnregeneracy has been very sinful a dead and damning Life 4. Thou art an English despiser of Christ and that is the worst sort in the World For according to the degrees of spiritual Light such are the degrees of obstinate Rebellion against it Obj.