us that 〈◊〉 should be called the Children of God Behold what manner of love is this I cannot conceive much less express how great and admirable his love is to his children God onely knows how much he loves them but they do not know it no nor yet can they tell how much they do love God For love between them and God and God and them is unmeasurable innumerable unsearchable and past finding out Their love to Christ is as strong as Death that many waters cannot quench Cant. 8.6.7 O! then how great is his love to them New creatures are sick of love to Christ it is so fervent strong and working Cant. 5.8 How much more strong and fervent is Christs love to them 'T is true that Christ is a far more lovely and desirable object of and for their love and delight than themselves are for Christs for he is the fairest of Ten thousands and altogether lovely â—â—t 5.10 ult But then they have not so â—uch love for Christ in their hearts as he â—â—th for them The Lord Jesus looks on his â—â—w Creatures his Spouses like a true and â—â—hement Lover indeed Like one that is enaâ—ored and ravished with them hence we have â—â—â—en such expressions falling and droping â—â—om his pure Lips How faire and how pleasant â—â—t thou O Love for delights Cant. 7.6 And â—â—ou hast ravished my heart my Sister my Spouse â—â—â—u hast ravished my heart with own of thine eies â—ith one chaine of thy Neck Cant. 4.9 By all which expressions of his he commends and sets out his exceeding great love to his people Oh! what a rich and invaluable priviledge is this to be so much and lye so deep iâ— the love and affections of the great God and the Lord Jesus Christ He loved you before your Regeneration so as to make you truely lovely with his Grace and Spirit with his Righteousness and holyness But now he loves you as most lovely and dilightful persons indeed He loves you now with the love of delight joy and complacency as was shewed You are his delight and Crown of rejoycing your Countenance is comely and your voice sweet to him Cant. 2.14 His Love to you is true and hearty strong and fervent fruitful and profitable and it is everlasting and unchangable he loves you notwithstanding your many unlovely carriages towards him and with all your personal deformities he taketh pleasure in you and refreshes as it were himself with you he cannot endure to see you slight and forget him or to suffer your minds and affections to depart from him he delights in you and in his love to or loving of you and the like he doth in your love to or loving of him The more you love him the more be sure he will unbosome himself and open unto you the hidden Treasures of his love Prov. 8.21 For his great love to you causes him to desire and call for love from you Seventhly You have the priviledge and great dignity of Adoption You were Vagabous and Miserable Beggars cast out to the loathing of your Persons None pitied you or took you in none hearkned to you nor cared for you neither had you any hand stretched out to help you until you came to the Lords door But there you found compassion and mercy there you found provision ready for you You knockt but once there before the the Lord of Glory came himself and opened the door to you and invited you into his house He hastned to bring the Fatted Calf and called for his best Robes took off your filthy Rags and put oâ— his own Garments of Grace Righteousness and holyness on you then he writ his own name on you and Stampt divine nature upon you and made you beautiful and desirable He gave you a new name when he made you new Creatures which is your honour and glory and the he said of and unto you These shall be my sons and daughters 2 Cor. 6. ult And hence forth he accounts and calls them so These are my Sons and my Daughters which I have formed for my self and taken into my house and family Ezek. 16.20 Isa 43.21 For they are my first born They were born for and unto me as in that of Ezekiel I have appointed and ordained them to live in my house as my Sons and Daughters and they shall go no more out or returne to their former estate again For they must abide with me for ever For the Son though not the Servant abideth for ever in his Fathers house or family as the Son of such a Father Joh. 8.35 I have says God put in their names their new names for and intituled them unto an Eternal Inheritance Coll. 1.12 Heb. 9.15 Eph. 1.11.14 1 Pet. 1.4 I have made them my heirs yea joynt heirs with my Christ whom I have given to be the heir of all things Heb. 1.2 Rom. 8.17 These shall in due time be put into the possession of their Inheritance for it is reserved in heaven for them and I will keep them for it 1 Pet. 1.4.5 and in the mean time they have and shall keep in their hands their hearts the Earnest and first fruits of it namely the holy Spirit of Promise He is the Spirit of adoption to and in them Rom. 8.14.15 Gal. 4.5 by and as working and fitting them for it and the meetening them to live as Children in their heavenly Fathers house and to demean themselves there as they ought to do So likewise to Seal up and confirm their Inheritance to them and bear witness to the reallity and Truth of it namely that there is such an Inheritance reserved for them and that they are appointed for and chosen to it and also to the Truth and faithfulness of God who hath promised it Rom. 8.16 Eph. 1.13.14 In their Scriptures he is called a witnesser and a Sealer Now to what doth he Seal and witness but to the hearts and faith of the adopted that there is such an Inheritance entailed on them that they shall possess and enjoy it and to thâ—â— faithfulness Truth and Alsufficiency of God who hath promised it and must do it for them Besides this there is another priviledge in you adoption which is your boldness and Intimacy with your God and Father notwithstanding the Infinite distance that there is between you and him which you have mentioned in Gal. 4.6 And because ye are Sons God hath sent foâ—â— the Spirit of his Son into your hearts Crying Abâ—â— Father And in Rom. 8.15 but ye have received 〈◊〉 Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father That is we may now in and by your Adoption and the Spirit thereof in our hearts conveâ—â— familiarly Intimately and boldly with God through Jesus Christ We may draw near to 〈◊〉 in full Assurance of Faith as commanded Hâ— 10.22 And boldly Heb. 4. ult And that because we are adopted Children in our Father house and can come to and converse in wiâ—â— and by the Spirit of Adoption
to live always in a dependency on their Creator For although God made Man a perfect Creature filled him with his Grace and adorned him with his Image yet he was but a Creature and he was always to live and have his dependency on God for his subsistance and not to stand and continue in that state from and by himself but to depend wholly on him that made him This he was bound to do not only in point of prudence for his own security and peace but in point of duty as that which he was indispensably bound unto by the Law of his Creation His neglect of his duty in this occasioned his Dreadful Fall which ruined him I mean Adam and all his Posterity The same end doth God Regenerate men for namely that they may believe in Jesus Christ and in God the Father by him Joh. 14.1 1 Pet. 1.21 that they may trust commit themselves to him and live in a constant dependence on him Isa 26.4 Psal 37.3.5 Therefore doth he infuse his Faith into them when he Regenerates them Col. 1.12 and writes this Law in their hearts that they may obey it Jer. 31.33 Heb. 10.16 3 They were at first Created to love God with all their hearts and chiefest strongest and warmest love that they might esteem and love him as their highest and chiefest good and singular Object of all their affections This Law of our Creation we have exprest in Matth. 22.37 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Mind So likewise this is Gods End in his second Creation or Regeneration and therefore doth he circumcise their hearts to love him Deut. 30.6 writes this Law in their hearts and sheds it abroad into them in Regeneration Rom. 5.5 that they may love him aright and that with his own love without which they cannot do it 4 The Lord Created Man to fear him to reverence and stand in awe of him as their great Soveraign Lord and King This Law was created with them and written in their hearts until sin had defaced and blotted it out This Law is also written in the Bible that men may remember what was written in their hearts in their Creation and know their duty and one of the ends for which they were Created how they have lost it and to provoke them to endeavour the recovery of it How often have we this Law exprest in Scripture Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God thou shalt stand in awe and sin not Deut. 6.13.24 Deut. 10.12.20 Psal 2.11 Psal 4.4 1 Pet. 2.17 It is a holy fear not a perplexing and heart-disquieting fear that is commanded it is a fear that is not an Adversary to Faith and Love as the forbidden fear is but it is useful for us and helpful to all other Graces Now in Regeneration God puts this fear into our hearts Jer. 32.39 40. that we may serve the Lord with reverence and godly fear Heb. 12.28 that we may not sin or depart from God Jer. 32. I will put my fear into their hearts and they shall not depart from me But I must hasten 5 God Created Man to obey him and yield him free loving and chearful subjection and obedience He formed them for his Subjects and Children that they should subject themselves unto his Laws and Authority and yield or give to him the obedience of Subjects to their Soveraign and of Children to their Creator and Begetter and accordingly they were Created with the Principle and Power of obedience and to this Created Principle God presently added a positive Law to try and exercise their obedience unto God Gen. 2.16 17. But of the Tree of Knowledge thou shalt not eat of it nor touch it The Image of God in which Adam and we in him were Created was such as fully enabled him and us had we kept it to have yielded all heart and practical obedience unto his whole will he wanted nothing to help him but he had all Grace in perfection to obey and conform to the whole Will of God at all times But Sin rooted the Principle and Power of Heart-obedience quite out of us so that men have now neither will nor power to obey the Will of God until they are regenerated by Grace But that God might not loose this End altogether for which he created Man he is pleased of his meer Grace to Regenerate and renew some of Mankind and thereby frame and mould them to such obedience as he at first intended them for for men cannot neither will they obey until Grace hath restored this old Power and Principle of obedience which they had lost And therefore he Regenerates and infuses this Power and Principle into men to make them willing Subjects and obedient Children 1 Pet. 1.14 Rom. 6.16 17 22. This was Gods End in sending Paul to convert the Gentiles Rom. 15.18 and this is powerfully effected in men in and by the work of Regeneration 6 That they might serve and worship him according to his revealed will God made men to worship and serve him externally as well as internally by loving fearing him and the like Christ mentions this in Matth. 4.10 when the Devil desired external worship from him It is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God They were created in the Image of God to serve him with fear that is to worship God Psal 2.11 Heb. 12.28 Now God Regenerates men that they may by his Grace be enabled to do and perform that worship to him which he at first created them for and the Law of their Creation enjoyns them to that is to worship God in Spirit and Truth for such Christ tells us the Father seeks to worship him John 4.23 24. God works them for this self-same thing though not only for it says Paul 2 Cor. 5.5 Regeneration makes men together with the help of the Spirit worship God according to his own Will and appointment spiritually holily and acceptably through Jesus Christ Heb. 12.28 1 Pet. 2.5 Rom. 12.1 But assuredly there are not any such Worshippers in the World but Regenerate persons for all other men do what they do in the Worship of God without the Grace and Spirit of God and therefore cannot worship him in Spirit and Truth 7 God created Man in his own Image that they might know him and therefore gave them a sufficient light to see by and eyes to use that light revealed and made known himself unto them that they might clearly see him and always have him and his Will in their eyes The Image of God was Light and Knowledge as well as Righteousness and Holiness and therefore Adam knew and saw God so far as a Man was or in that state could be capable of knowing him which as it aggravated his sin so it heightned his happiness while he kept it The knowledge of God was absolutely necessary to help him and us in him to trust love fear and obey him so likewise to
regenerated in comparison of Jesus Christ his Gospel Names and Glory Self-denial and Christ exalting is one of the first Lessons he Learns and the first work and concern he is busied about Assoon as Paul was regenerated his heart was raised up to this duty bent and resolvedly set upon it and without delay prosecuted it Lord says he what wilt thou have me to do Acts. 9.6 and he tels us that assoon as he knew his Lords will he consulted not with flesh and blood that is with self ease and safety no but presently fell to work namely to exalt Christ save Souls and enlarge his Masters kingdome Gal. 1.15 16. Paul did immediately joyn Issues with Christ and freely and fully closed up with his Terms propounded by himself to all that will be his disciples Mark 8.34 Luk. 14.26 27. Luk. 18. and believe it so it is with you if you are his Disciples indeed Joh. 8.31 if you are born again of the Spirit Joh. 3.5 Christ Jesus the Lord is pretious in your Eies and high in your esteem your Lives Estates Honours Liberties Dignities and Relations are small matters to you in comparison of Christ his name Gospel and Interests And therefore your desire choice design aime scope and endeavours are all to greaten magnify and exalt him As he is the fairest of ten thousands unto you so you desire chuse and labour that he may be so by you It is a fixed principle in your hearts a stated Case in your Judgments and Consciences and a setled frame and bent of your Souls There is nothing in the World more pleasing and acceptable to you and there is not any thing that more refreshes your mindes and delights your hearts then this that you have a Christ to Glorify and that you may Glorify and Honour him The new Creature is formed for Christ to be and live 〈◊〉 the praise of his Glorious Grace Eph. 1.6.12 They see and acknowledge when Regenerated that they are no more their own but born again that they might Glorify God with their â—odies and Spirits which are the Lords 1 Cor. 6.19.20 and that they that live should live wholly to him who hath Created them in Christ Jesus unto good workes 2 Cor. 5.15 Eph. 2.10 One of the first questions or enquiries of the new Creature is how and wherein he may live to God please and honour him and bring forth fruit whereby he may be glorifyed Joh. 15.8 it is the great case and interest their hearts and souls are concerned in and they are grieved when they cannot reach it but receive or count it matter of joy when he is really loved honoured and exalted by any especially when they can do it themselves It is so natural to new Creatures or Regenerate men and they are so interessed in and with Jesus Christ his concerns as that they take and account what is done to or against him is done to or against themselves They are like the Lord Jesus their head in this too Namely that what iâ— Christs Indignity is theirs and what is Christs glory and honour is theirs also His reproach and honour lays nearer their hearts then any or all their own Earthly and Bodily concernments The Lord Jesus accounts his Peoples Reproaches Indignities Prosperity and Happiness his own such is his great love and respects to and care of them Isa 63.9 Acts 9.5 Math. 10.42 Math. 25.40 Zach. 2.8 If they be honoured he is so if they be abused he is abused and if they suffer he doth so to In all their Afflictions he is afflicted And as it is with Christ in their concerns so it is in measure with them in Christs concerns Is his Name Gospel and Worship under a cloud of contempt and reproach it is matter of grief and mourning to them and when they are loved exalted and dignifyed it is their glory and joy Phil. 5.17 Psal 119. And that it is so indeed may farther be evidenced 1. From their near Relations New Creatures or Regenerate men are the Children of God He hath begotten them by his Grace and Gospel Jam. 1.18 1. Pet. 1.3.14 and all ingenious Children will concern themselves in and with their Fathers honour and indignity and naturally seek to advance and exalt them all they can or ought to do How much more doth the Divine nature and Spirit of God in Believers prompt and instigate them to do so to their heavenly Father and that by all the wayes and means they may 2. They are the Spouses of the Lord Jesus and he is their Husband Cant. 2.16 2 Cor. 11.2 Jer. 3.14 Christ hath chosen and taken them to himself Hosea 3.2 3. to be his loving and affectionate Brides Joh. 15.16 and they have chosen and taken him to be their Husband and become one with himself The Lord Jesus Regenerates men to make them capable of chosing him for theirs and to make them meet for this Conjugal Relation And they have in their hearts the love and respects in part that are due to such a Relation as Christ is 3. They are related to Christ as members to the head He is their head and they are his members Eph. 5.23.30 And therefore they must needs have his nature and spirit to desire and naturally design intend and indeavour to exalt and honour him The members of the natural body do naturally honour their head and the head doth the same to the members 1 Cor. 12.26 So it is in the mystical head and body And it cannot but be so because of the oneness and mutual simpathy that is between them So then if you are new Creatures you are members of Christ and if members of Christ then you simpathize with Christ His reproach is yours and his honour is yours and you have a natural frame bent and disposition of heart to honour exalt and magnify him all you can and it is your delight joy to do it 2. Love esteem and respects that are in these Relations and flow from them to Christ do prompt and stir you up to Desire Chuse Design and endeavour to honour and exalt him Their strong and endeared love to and high esteem of him provokes and moves them to study project watch and labour all they can to please honour and exalt him The love of so many near and great Relations as they stand in to him must needs be very strong and fervent being in one subject They love and esteem him as their loving sweet and kind Head Father Husband as their Redeemer Teacher Comforter Crowner and Eternal Saviour and therefore they cannot but seek and endeavour his honour and exaltation They have eyes enlightned to see a transcendent Worth and glorious Excellency Beauty and Majesty in Christ and they see him As worthy of all Acceptation 1 Tim. 1.15 so of all glory and exaltation Neither Christ or his Excellencies are hid from them but the Glory of them do so shine into their hearts as greatly to draw forth their Hearts Tongues
neither do they desire there should be their minds and thoughts are wholly taken up about making provision for their Pride Covetousness Carnal Security Vain Glory Good Opinion of themselves and other filthy Lusts and they make themselves their Drudges and humble servants Rom. 13. ult And hence they are said to serve sin Rom. 6.6.17.20 But new Creatures know and account their Lusts their greatest Enemies and prosecute them with implacuble enmity and hatred They know either they must destroy their Lusts or they will destroy them They know that they have trucifyed the Son of God and put him to open shame and they know that they have greatly wronged their own Souls Pro. 8. ult And therefore they will give them no Quarter but stab them to the heart whatever it cost them to do it 4. Watching They are called to and imployed in the work of watching and guarding themselves against all their enemies This is another of their Special and peculiar works and businesses It is spetial and peculiar to new or regenerate men though it is the duty of all men yet none but they are conscientiously and dutifully imploying and exercising themselves in it But good men are 1 Joh. 5.18 But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself That is they do watch aâ—me and guard themselves so David did Psal 102.7 Psal 130.6 and the Scripture makes it one of the Special properties of good servants as well as their workes Habak 2.1 which Christ pronounces Blessed Revel 16.15 2 Cor. 11.27 Luk. 12.37 Regenerate men are beset with enemies which watch their opportunities to assault and betray them and that they know They know that Satan watches them and Lusts watch and the world watches to hurt and mischief their Souls and therefore they watch them and prepare against them It is true that good men are apt to be too negligent in this duty and need stirings up to it and it is as true that they do ordinarily practice this duty and worke They are moved to it 1 by the will and command of God God requires them to watch guard themselves Mark 13.33 34 37. 1 Their own hearts Pro. 4.23 Keep thy heart with all diligence 2 the Devil 1 Pet. 5.8 Be Sober be Vigilant for your adversary the Devil as a Roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour 3 The World Luk. 21.34.36 4 To watch unto prayer and all other duties Col. 4. and Acts 20.31 1 The Calls to and opportunities for them that through heedlesness and inadvertency we let them not slip away from us without imbracing and improving them to the Glory of God and our Souls profit or advantage of others 2 That we may close in and joyn Issues with God and his designes in giving them to us and that in the time and season of them and that freely and readily 2 They are moved to a fervent attendance on this work and duty by and from their dangers They are in continual danger of assaults and surprizalls from them and therefore they must be always upon their watch to prevent their designs discover their plots and foyl them in their Attempts 3 From their own security and comfort they are moved to this worke It is easier keeping an Enemy out of the Garison of the heart then dealing with and driving him out â—hen admitted in Their own as well as Christs honour safety and happiness is much concerned in their so doing God hath 1 committed themselves to their own keeping and given them the care and charge of themselves 1 Joh. 5.21 Pro. 4.23 Jam. 1. ult 'T is true â—â—at God doth watch over and keep them in especially manner also Isa 27.3 1 Pet. â—5 and that when they are most careful to â—eep themselves 2 God hath intrusted them with power light will and abilities to keep themselves and in their doing of it in obedience to his will he hath promised to keep and secure them from Sin and danger likewise 1 Pet. 5.7.2 Tim. 4.18 They watch and keep themselves dutifully in order to their safety and God keeps and watches them powerfully and effectually so as that the sâ—es of Hell shall not prevaile against them Math. 16.18 But they cannot so keep and secure themselves with their utmost diligence This I say is the work and imployment of regenerate persons they and they only live in the practice of it Unregenerate persons do no way concern themselves in this great and special work They know it not they love it not neither have they hearts to do it withal They think it a work of supererogation and that such as are busied about it are more strict and precise than they should be They fear neither God Sin World nor Devil neither are they sensible of the danger they are in of destruction but go on securely in the wayes of their own hearts and speak peace unto themselves presuming that no evil shall come to them 5 They are employing and exercising themselves in worshiping God according to his own will and Appointment namely to worship God in Spirit and Truth and that with his own worship We are they sayes Paul of himself and other Saints who worship God in Spirit Psal 3.3 They are convinced that they must and that God will so be worshiped of them Joh. 4.24 God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth For this self-same thing though not onely doth God Regenerate men and thereby lays in and sets up a principle of divine worship in them that so they may readily do it according to the will of God For sayes Christ the Father seeketh such to worship him Joh. 4.23 that is that the Father doth by Christs Gospel and the holy Ghost call and regenerate teach and Spirit some to worship him It is their desire choice care and study to draw nigh to God in all parts of his worship with true hearts Heb. 10.22 and to worship God sincerely and Spiritually To please and honour him to sanctify his name and holy worship and to give unto the Lord the honâ—â—â— due unto his name to comply with his holy will and ends to make his praise glorious Psal 29.1 2. Psal 66.2 This is also one of their high and noble works holy and Spiritual imployments and that wherein their Souls delight to this they are called for this they are in part fitted and qualified in their Regeneration and this is their work and business ever â—â—er Thus it is with you and so is your â—ractice if you are Regenerated Unregeneâ—â—te men are strangers and adversaries to this peculiar work and duty of new Creatures they know it not they do it not neither conâ—â—rn themselves with it They take up in and are satisfied with the Letter without the Spirit with the form without the Truth and â—â—er of Godliness and they imagine that they have done God good service when they have spent some time in external duties and ordiâ—ances without the great
with our Goâ—â— and Father You shall forever be fed at youâ— Fathers and eat at his Table with him 〈◊〉 he will make all sorts of Spiritual provisiâ—â— for you because you are his adopted Châ—â—dren and in his house You shall for ever 〈◊〉 upon no worser fare than the Bread of 〈◊〉 that came down from heaven Joh. 6. And yâ—â— â—â—all for ever Drink of the Rivers of his pleasures â—â—ely of the Fountain of Life Psal 36.8 and 〈◊〉 shall never want You are in an adopted â—â—â—e and may expect all provisions from him 〈◊〉 hath Adopted you for he will not deny you any good thing nor fail to make ready for 〈◊〉 your daily bread Therefore look on 〈◊〉 great dignity and Priviledge of yours apply it to your selves suck out all the marâ—ow and sweetness of it and comfort your selves with it to the enabling and encouraging you in your Wilderness Journy work aâ—d condition You know it so amongst men â—â—th respect to worldly Inheritances Such as are entayled or entitled to them will often think on them and comforting themselves in â—ope of possessing and enjoying the good of â—â—em after a few years Why do you so â—uch more For your Inheritance to which you are Adopted is a much more glorious certain and rich Inheritance than any worldly one can be and it is an Incorruptible and â—ternal Inheritance that you are entituled to The Lord Jesus the Elder Brother and Heir is gone to take possession of your Inheritances for you who are Regenerated and made by Adoption fellow Heirs of Salvation 8. Vnion and Communion You are Vnited to Christ and made one Body with him or you are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his â—â—es Eph. 5.30 as you heard before and therefore shall not insist on it here This Union is exprest and set forth unto us by many things As by natural Vnions that are between the Head and Members in the Natural Body Eph. 5.23 Eph. 1.22 23. Eph. 4.15 by the natural union and oneness that is between the Vine and Branches Joh. 15.1 2 4 5. so also between Voluntary and Conjugal Relations as Husband and Wife Eph. 5. Friends and Friends John 15. Now from this Union flows Communion of Persons and Estates What the Lord Jesus hath is theirs and whatever they have is Christs Christ is theirs and all his fulness and Riches theirs he can withhold 〈◊〉 good thing from them neither doth he account any thing he hath to be so his own but that they have a kind of propriety and Interest in it and may claim it of him What he hath received of his Father it was for them he deposited all their stock and Portion in his hand that he might impart and communicate it 〈◊〉 them which he doth and will do and thâ—â— most faithfully carefully wisely and seasonbly For this end he gives them free and 〈◊〉 access to him and invites them not to be straâ—gers to him but come and apply themselveâ— freely and constantly to him and ask of 〈◊〉 what they will John 14.13 14. John 15. â— John 16. All which he holds forth to theâ— in and by the hand of Promises Ask what yâ— will and it shall be done to you John 15.7 Joâ—â— 16.24 In like manner Regenerate Men 〈◊〉 open hearted to Christ in degree they 〈◊〉 willingly design and dedicate their all to 〈◊〉 All their love and affections all their strenâ— and abilities and all their earnings and 〈◊〉 tings They give him their service and 〈◊〉 age their hearts hands and Souls and the fruits of their experiences of his Grace and love to them Christ and they do Visit one mother in the Galleries and in their Closets There they do unbosome themselves and open the secrets of their hearts to each other This is another of your great Dignities and Priviledges But having spoken something of this before I shall say no more of it here You should consider this Truth and make the best of it you can 9. You are priviledged and dignified with the holy Angels Guard and Attendance They are by nature more noble and excellent Creatures then you and yet they wait on you and keep guard round about you night and day They love and honour you and are ready to do you any service they can and you are greatly engaged to them for the honour and service they do you They do you much good for they are Ministering Spirits sent forth to Minister unto the Heirs of Salvation such as you are they secure you from and guard you against Devils and they support and uphold you in and with their hands Heb. 1. ult Psal 91 10 11. Psal 34.7 Math. 4. When you are Journying they go with you and when you lie down they watch at your Beds-side The holy Angels rejoyce in and with you Luk. 15.7 10. They are glad at your Regeneration and Salvation and they no way envy your prosperity or disdain your service as below them Whatever they do for you they do it freely faithfully chearfully and with delight Thus you see what you are born to and what Dignities and Priviledges are conferred on you and do attend your New states and conditions Apply them to your selves and lay them near your hearts lodge them in your minds and realize them to your selves for they are yours and do belong to you as you are New Creatures or in a state of Grace Use them as Divine Cordials and drink freely of them continually to strengthen and encourage your hearts and hands in the work of the Lord. For it is your Fathers will you should so do because he knows you need them and gives them into your hands for these ends and purposes And now what follows but that you endeavour to walk worthy of your new State Priviledges and Dignities Which will be the matter of the next Chapter CHAP. VII Shewing how you ought to walk and carry your selves in your Regenerate States and what God looks for and expects from you Q. WHat is the Work or what are the works and duties of New-Creatures in their Regenerate states how ought they to walk and carry themselves towards God and Men what doth God require of and expect from them A. They have great and special works and duties to do and perform to God and Men in which they must exercise and imploy themselves all their days They must never be Idle and unfruitful in the knowledge of Christ or their new States 2 Pet. 1.8 Regenerate persons must abound in the work of the Lord 1 Cor. 15. ult and make it their whole work and business to bring forth fruit to God Rom. 7.4 that God may be glorified in and by them John 15.8 God expects singular things and special works from you for the whole Revenue of his Glory is intrusted with and in your hands and with other of his New Creatures and he hath and will give grace and assistance enough to enable you to live to the praise