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A30282 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. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1690 (1690) Wing B5709; ESTC R23833 54,814 178

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and declared so to be For you are told He that hath the Son of God hath Life 1 Joh. 5.12 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 And being justified by Faith you have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5.1 Come Reader come take Eternal Life from these Lines Hold thy self not a minute longer in Hell-fire for Gods wrath is not a jod less Down with my Book and down fall thou on thy Knees and utter the few words which will make God and thy Soul everlasting Friends No longer dare to live Damned Venture to strike the Gospel-Covenant and be saved Say to Jesus Christ Lord I will stay no longer I am thine upon thy Gospel-terms for ever From this instant to Eternity I will be thine Say to thy self Heart bid an eternal adieu unto Vnrighteousness and unto trust in self-righteousness as satisfactory or meritory Say unto vain Company Sirs I take my leave of you I must travel no farther with you that are not for the strait gate and narrow way If you will not be Reconciled to God with me I will not any longer sight against God with you But whither do I break Be it known unto every Reader this is Gospel God is not Reconciled to us FOR our Repentance and Faith The most penitent Believers are but unprofitable servants unto him But he is never to be Reconciled WITHOVT Repentance and Faith Both are as necessary as tho' they were Meritory though they are infinitely far from it Yea and upon the first penitent and faithful consenting to the Gospel-Covenant God and Sinners become as true Friends as God and Holy Angels And as Eternally inseparable ones Rom. 8.38 39. 'T is not to be denyed or concealed The grant of Peace is one thing and the sense of it is another And these two are separable God may be Reconciled to a Covenant-servant of his for months and years and the servant be in fear and doubt of it Those sins that hinder not Gods grant of Peace to us do often hinder our sense and assurance of it Wherefore we are to consider another particular concerning Reconciliation To wit 5. The Believers perswasion of it For though Reconciliation be the greatest good though it be Eternally purposed for me and by Christs Death purchased for me and be by the Holy Spirit proved to me that it is for some Purposed and Purchased Yea though through Grace I am possessed of it what then Until I know that I am possessed of it I am but like a Child in the Womb Living indeed in a bag of water but not knowing my own Life I have a Life that is only in degree inferiour to the Life of Angels But yet I live in doubts and fears that I am like unto Divels and that I shall lodge for ever in their unquenchable fire Now be it carefully heeded The Holy Spirit who is given to work Grace in us he is also given to witness Grace unto us and to make us know the things that are freely given to us of God 1 Cor. 2.12 He is a free and soveraign Agent indeed and he works and witnesses in them in whom he worketh as he pleaseth He giveth assurance of Peace with God as much as he pleaseth and as soon and no more and no sooner than he pleaseth 1 Cor. 12.11 At the first Plantation of the Gospel-Church he used together to convert Souls and to assure them of their Reconciliation unto God But now we see he doth not ordinarily so do And as commanded 2 Pet. 2.10 most Converts do give great diligence before their Election and Reconciliation are made sure I contemn the Roman Synagogue that measures all Cloth by its own Ell and denyeth the attainableness of that assurance which they neither duly seek or ever attain Our Divines have confuted and shamed them so much that there needs not any thing to be said unto their blasphemous Dreams Let the desirous Reader see but that one most excellent Sermon of Mr. Samuel Fairclough on 2 Pet. 1.10 in the Morning Lectures against Popery The Churches of Christ do believe and teach that the blessed Spirit doth ordinarily sooner or later witness unto true Converts their Reconciliation And seal them to the day of Redemption And this either mediately or immediately Immediately by a sort of spiritual words Such as pass between God and the Blessed Spirits above By these the Holy Ghost testifieth unto humble diligent Believers that they are Gods Reconciled and Adopted Children And when he doth so he doth it with a clearness and sweetness that carry their own evidence with them For there is no Rule beyond it by which it may be tryed as there is no other visible besides the Light it self whereby you may try it Rom. 8.16 He is said therefore to witness with our Spirits that we are the Children of God And Eph. 1.13 with Eph. 4.30 He is said to seal us But how so Unless he doth set some print and stamp upon us distinguishing our state and Relation Again mediately the Spirit perswadeth us also of our Reconciliation To wit by enabling us to see our Graces truth and sincerity and from thence to infer our certain Reconciliation Both wayes he is ordinarily the Comforter of sound Believers I have read of a Woman that would say she had born eight or nine Children and with as much pain as other Women used to undergo But she would be content to bear all that pain over again for this comfort of the Spirit O that the same mind were in all that profess a value of it But well what if you had sought and found it too There 's another very material particular concerning Reconciliation to God that would ask for your thoughts and cares To wit 6. The practical improvement of it I mean of his Reconciliation and of his perswasion or assurance of it Hear the Apostle 2 Cor. 7.2 Having these promises to wit of Reconciliation and all Grace chap. 6. latter end what use are we to make of them Why Let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God q. d. Let us live as far as we can without sin Let us do Gods will on Earth as 't is done in Heaven unto our utmost ability Let us do all we are able to make our Reconciliation more honourable to God then our Damnation would have been Assurance is a special priviledge Scarce any Childs portion at all times And 't is possible that some of Gods Children may live and dye without it However when it is bestow'd extraordinary Aids of Grace and Advantages for Duty are bestowed with it The helps which School-Men call necessary are given to all that are Converted But those which they call liberal are given but to them that are Assured In Conversion all Gods Children do receive strength sufficient to walk acceptably with him But when they are sealed by the Holy Spirit