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A58187 The pattern of pure and undefiled religion exhibited in the preaching and life of the holy Jesus, shewing the true genius and spirit of Christianity, with an introduction concerning the restoring of true religion by Jesus Christ and his kingdom / by George Raymond. Raymond, George, A.M. 1689 (1689) Wing R412; ESTC R33512 50,348 160

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him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth 1 Joh. 1.6 If we walk contrary to his Example we frustrate the design of his appearance we reproach the Wisdom of God that sent us from Heaven this Light of Life and if he had not come and spoken to us it had been far better for us for then we had had no Sin in comparison of that heavy load of guilt that will sink and crush every ungodly and wicked Professor of the Christian Name But if we would adorn our Profession and honour the Author and reap the Fruits of it we must walk as Children of the light Ephes 5.8 or as we are exhorted Rom. 13.12 Let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the Armour of Light let us walk honestly as in the day not in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness not in Strife and Envying but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fullfil the Lusts thereof And that to enforce the Apostle's Exhortation with his own Argument knowing the time Rom. 13.11 that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our Salvation nearer than when we believed That the time is coming when the Members of Christ shall be universally filled with his Spirit and our Blessed Lord be more worthily imitated by and glorified in his Saints is an Article of the pious Belief and hope of good Christians The Prophecies concerning the excellent effects of his holy Religion have not yet had their accomplishment in any tolerable sense and yet are too plain to be any other ways evaded than as the Jews may equally avoid the Predictions from whence we prove that the Messiah is already come For it is not enough to say with them that our selves are in the fault that the Prophecies cannot be accomplished and hinder the production of that beautiful Issue which Christianity according to the Divine Predictions labours and travels withal For those Prophecies are express that it shall be delivered of that happy Birth and bring forth by the Power of God. Who will set his hand to this work and cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up and cleanse the iniquity of his people and cause the Captivity of Judah and Israel to return and bring them health and cure by revealing unto them the abundance of peace and truth Jer. 33.6 7 8 14 15 c. For behold the days come saith the Lord that I will perform that good thing which I have promised and this Prediction as it follows is sure as the Covenant of the day and night firm and irreversible as the Ordinances of Heaven and Earth This Epiphany of the Branch and Reign of Righteousness Truth and Peace the New Testament-Prophecies teach us to expect at the close of the Christian oeconomy as the Consummation and finishing Scene thereof When Christ shall plead his own Cause against the powers of darkness against Sin and Satan which have hitherto reigned and so break their Empire in pieces that it shall never be able to erect it self more And now to infer the Conclusion this Salvation is nearer than when we believed Rev. 14.15 18 19. the night of Pagan and Antichristian darkness is far spent the Harvest of the Reformation is already past and we have encouragement to hope the Vintage is approaching when all the Grapes of Sodom shall be gathered and cast into the Wine-Press of the wrath of God when Christ shall intirely purge his holy Religion from all depravation and inspire all that profess it with the true Spirit and fill them with the genuine Fruits thereof Hebr. 10.24 Let us therefore consider our selves and one another to provoke to love and good works so much the more as we see that day approaching By a diligent conforming our selves to the mind and life of Christ shewing forth the Excellencies of his Spirit and Conversation we shall prepare the way of the Lord and walk as those that look for and love his appearance By this we shall verify our Prayers that his Kingdom may come and confirm in our selves and others the hope of its approaching For when the Spirit that rested on Christ shall abide on the generality of his Followers and his Life be manifested in theirs then shall our blessed Saviour be satisfied concerning the travel of his Soul and glorified in his Saints Then shall his Kingdom come as we daily pray and his Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Amen Even so come Lord Jesus for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever FINIS