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A75227
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A New-Years gift: or, Advice to a god-son. By P.A. Gent.
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P. A., Gent.
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1696
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Wing A25A; ESTC R203728
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Slavery to Sin and Satan Death and Hell God was pleased to make a Second Covenant of Grace and Mercy with lost Man and therein promises to send his Son that Seed of the Woman which should break the Serpents Head who should be a King Priest and Prophet to us A King to rule us a Priest to make an Atonement for us with his Father and to intercede for us and a Prophet to teach and instruct us in all things necessary to our Happiness in the whole Will and Mind of God Accordingly the Blessed Jesus in fulness of Time was sent into the World from Heaven to take our Nature upon him to become Man and so in our stead as our Surety then paid the Price of our Redemption by shedding his most precious Blood upon the Cross offering up his Soul a Sacrifice to God to satisfy his Father's Justice of which great Sacrifice all the legal Sacrifices were Types and as such were acceptable with God for he was the Lamb of God slain from the Beginning of the World and by this means to reconcile us to God to procure to us the sinful Offspring of sinful Adam upon our true Repentance a Pardon of all our Sins For he purchased a general Pardon to all the Rebellious Sons of Adam upon their Submission and laying down their Arms and ceasing their Hostilities against Heaven and becoming dutiful and obedient Subjects and of the Servants of Sin and Slaves of Satan the greatest Slavery in the World to be made the Sons and Servants of God whose Service is perfect Freedom to be in some Measure restored to their first State of Innocence and Happiness to be made vertuous and holy conformed to the Image of their heavenly Father to enjoy his Friendship and Favour and to be blessed by him here in this Life and at Death to be translated into the blessed Regions of Happiness above in Heaven there to behold love contemplate praise and admire Him to all Eternity with all his holy Angels Now consider seriously God-son Was not this great Love and good Will of God in this great Contrivance and Work of our Redemption And in his sending his beloved Son into the World for the effecting the same And was it not also great Love and condescending Goodness in the Son of God the blessed Jesus to stoop from Heaven to Earth to take upon him the Nature of sinful Man To be born of a Woman to live here upon Earth a mean and despicable Life to be hated reviled persecuted even while he went about designing and doing all the Good he could both to the Bodies and Souls of Men and publishing the glad Tydings of Salvation to all the World and by his divine Doctrine rectifying the great Errors Mistakes and Delusions that the World lay under making a clear and full Discovery of what was Truth and being the great Exemplar of all Vertue Holiness true Worth and Goodness to all the World Being notwithstanding herein exposed to all the Malice and Rage of Men and Devils And at last to lay down his precious Life by a shameful ignominious painful and cruel Death of Crucifixion Hereby perfecting the Work of our Redemption That whosoever would accept of this Salvation and would believe in him repent and be baptized and so become his faithful Disciple should be saved Now God-son you being happily born of Christian Parents were according to the holy Institution of this blessed Jesus our Lord and Master and the constant Practice of his Church baptized and thereby initiated in his Church and made a Member of the same as I mentioned before and so made not only capable of but really partaker of this great Redemption and Salvation It very much concerns you now you are come to a competent Age of Understanding to consider how you stand obliged to God and to be true and faithful to your baptismal Vow and Covenant which now you must renew in your own Person except you will renounce your Christianity and think that you were obliged also to them who were assistant and instrumental in this charitable Work of bringing you to this holy Baptism and devoting and dedicating you to God and to be the Disciple of the blessed Jesus Christ you being thereby Partaker of all the Privileges and Benefits of the Gospel Now I beseech you with all Chearfulness and Alacrity of Soul resolve forthwith to ratify and confirm this Advantageous Contract and Vow made for you by your God-fathers and God-mothers in your Minority and Nonage and perform the same in your own Person now you are of Capacity and abhor to profess what you do not intend to practise In pursuance thereof be modest and humble and teachable be very sollicitous to know and understand fully what your Christianity means and also what it requires of you And abhor to be of the Number of them too many in the World who neglect that most wherein their chiefest and greatest Care should be viz. Their Religion and by that means know little more of their Christianity but the Name First therefore God-son have recourse with humble Reverence of Heart and Body to God in Prayer and with great Fervency beg the Guidance of his Grace and Spirit wherein your blessed Lord and Saviour hath furnished you with the most excellent Form composed by himself which should be a Pattern to all our Prayers and always to accompany them But herein also your Mother the Church hath furnished you as also other pious Men especially that most excellent Book the whole Duty of Man which now I have mentioned to you let me recommend it to you as an Attendant to the sacred Scriptures in which in the next place I would advise you to be very Conversant I mean the Scriptures with a spiritual Guide to direct you and take you by the Hand especially in doubtful and difficult places and hearkening to good Sermons and the learning and understanding the Principles of your Religion contained in our Church Catechism in which you should request your Parents and Friends to assist and help you And consider God-son Whereas in your Baptismal Vow you renounced The Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh That is to say all Acts of Sin and Disobedience to the Divine Laws for Sin is the Transgression of God's Law as also all the vain and evil Customs of the World the Pride Excess and Vanity of worldly and wicked Men together with the gratifying of your carnal and sensual Desires and Appetites in opposition to those Restrictions and Rules God hath set us And whereas in the next place you promise to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith briefly summed up in the Apostles Creed in which is comprehended the Knowledge and Belief of all those Truths of Christianity necessary to be known by us to be the Guide of our Lives it being the Foundation of all Christian Practice It is very needful