is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom Luke 22. 29. I appoint unto you a Kingdome mark the promise is pregnant with a Kingdome 'T is no less then a Crown a Kingdome that is here delivered to you Luke 19. 12. A certain noble man went into a far Country to receive to himself a Kingdome and to return This is the business you are come for hither to receive to your selves a Kingdome and so to return Oh methinks you should forget what ground you go upon as you are going home to think what you have received here methinks you should go forth as Haman from the Banquet joyful and with a glad heart Sirs do you know what you are doing why the Lord doth by these signs give you the Kingdome as a man by the delivering to you a Turf or a Key gives possession of an House or Land Brethren have you ever read of the Kingdome of joy of the Crown of life of the Robes of Righteousness of the Thrones of Glory Why all this God here makes over to you I tell you Sirs these are not big words nor cunningly devised fables God All-mighty is here come to certifie you of the reality of his promises As sure as you do now sit on your seats you shall shortly sit on your Thrones As sure as you are now cloathed with flesh so surely shall you be cloathed with Glory Are you sure that you are now on Earth so surely shall you be shortly in Heaven The Lord intendeth you but for a very little while in this lower Region you must dwell above where Christ is there you must be also As sure as you now see a Crucified Christ so sure shall you shortly see a Glorified Christ. The Lord Jesus doth anticipate his sentence here and calls to you Guests Come ye Blessed inherit the Kingdome Take the writing behold the Seals here are the Conveyances of the Kingdome The donation is sure and full unalterable irrevocable Christians do you believe If you do methinks you should be ravished methinks you should be filled with joy unspeakable and full of Glory But do you stagger at the promise through unbelief Do you sey oh it is too much and too great why how can that be What! too great for God to make good thou darest not think so But it is too great for me to count upon Why but man dost thou not bear upon thee the marks of the Lord Iesus Whose Image and Superscription is this Doth not your very heart prize Christ above all the world Hast thou not made a deliberate choice of him for thy Head and Husband Hast not thou entred into a solemn contract with him to be his for all times and conditions and to love honour and obey him before all others to the death And doth not thy heart stand to this choice Hast not thou taken him with his Yoke and with his Cross And dost not thou in thy practice first seek the Kingdome of God and the Righteousness thereof And hast not thou chosen the way of the Kingdome Art not thou in love with Holiness and desirest grace more then Gold Dost not thou prefer a holy and spiritual life before all the grandeur of the world and pleasure of the flesh And all this not only for a fit or a flash but in the setled frame and disposition of thy heart surely thou must wrong God and thy self if thou deniest it to be thus with thee Why these are the marks of the Lord Iesus upon thee the sure marks fear not these can not deceive thee They evidence that thou art born of God that thou art a Son and so an Heir and therefore mayest lay claim to the inheritance Come then Beloved Christians be of good comfort why shouldst thou doubt Thou hast the mark of the sheep And therefore thy portion shall be at the Right hand and thy Sentence among the Blessed Well then receive this Holy Sacrament as the pledg of all this Go home and look over all these blessed Promises and count them thine Do not read them as too often heretofore as if they did not concern thee Remember what God hath here promised under hand and Seal to thee and let not all be left behind thee when thou goest hence but let the remembrance the fruit and sweet of this abide upon thee whilst thou hast a day to live Never forget what the Lord hath here spoken to thy Soul make more of the Promises then ever in thy life before Bless thy self in them Remember how the Lord delivered thee the Promises how he Sealed to the several Articles how he sprinkled the bloud upon the Book of the Covenant and gave it to thee and said This is the New Testament in my Bloud Oh live henceforth a life of joy and Faith as a man that is elevated above the world Do not live at thy old dull and slothful rate carry it like a Believer and in a word walk as one that doth indeed take all for Truth that the Lord hath spoken to thee this day Let that of the Apostle be a close to all 2 Cor. 7. 1. Having therefore these Promises dearly beloved let us Cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting Holiness in the fear of God FINIS These Books following are Published by Mr. Richard Baxter and Printed for Nevil Simmons at the Princes-Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1. THE Aphorisms 2. The Saints everlasting rest in quarto 3. Plain Scripture proof of Infant Church-membership and Baptism in quarto 4. The right Method for a setled Peace of Conscience and Spiritual Comforts in thirty two Directions in octave 5. Chistian Concord or the Agreement of the Associated Pastors and Churches of Worcester shire in quarto 6. True Christianity or Christs Absolute Dominion c. In two Assize Sermons Preacht at Worcester in twelves 7. A Sermon of Judgment preacht at Pauls London Decemb. 17. 1654. and now enlarged in twelves 8. Making light of Christ and salvation too oft the issue of Gospel-Invitations manifested in a Sermon Preached at Laurence Iury in London in octave 9. The Agreement of divers Ministers of Christ in the County of Worcester for Catechizing or Personal Instructing all in their several Parishes that will consent thereunto containing 1. The Articles of our Agreement 2. An Exhortation to the People to submit to this necessary work 3. The Profession of Faith and Catechism in octavo 10. Guildas Salvianus The Reformed Pastor shewing the nature of the Pastoral work especially in private Instruction and Catechizing in octavo 11. Certain Disputations of Right to Sacraments and the true nature of visible Christianity in quarto 12. Of Justification four Disputations clearing and amicably defending the Truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers Learned and Reverend Brethren in quarto 13. A Treatise of Conversion preached and now published for the use of those that are strangers to a true Conversion c. in quarto 14. One
for this argues there is nothing but flesh that there is no contrary principle in such a heart For if there were the spirit would at least make opposition This was the very frame of those unsanctified sinners that counted the Sabbaths and Service of God an unprofitable burden a very weariness a bondage not to be born Mal. 1. 13. A gracious heart when under such a distemper as that Gods service seems a weariness is even weary of himself while this is burdensome he is a burden to himself he cannot enjoy himself while in such a frame wherein he cannot enjoy God and if this be the Case our State is good though the frame be bad 5. Where this weariness and unwillingness is not from a rooted dislike of the food but an accidental and preter natural indisposition of the stomach or being disappointed of Gods presence in duties the main state is safe You know under a distemper the appetite may disgust and nauseate the food that a man doth love above all other meats when he is well and so it is here Do you when you are your selves relish more sweetness in Gods service then in your Meats and Drinks are no sweets so delightful to you as fellowship and communion with God when you can attain to it in duties Do you come away discontented because you cannot meet with God Is the ground why your countenances fall and your hearts be discouraged because you have with them toyled and spread the net and have not caught what you went for because you have no answer nor income from God If it be thus it is a sign your hearts be set upon God and that you place the happiness and comfort of your lives in God and so that your state is safe Otherwise when there is a fixed antipathy to duties and an habitual dislike of them and contrariety to them the Case is very sad 6. Where our weariness and unwillingness is such as makes us to give over our duties so as to live in the ordinary neglect of them it is a fearful sign but where notwithstanding present discouragements we hold on in the performance of our duties and a humble waiting upon God for removal of our difficulties till we are brought to a better frame this argues well The Church her self may be greatly deserted but then she gives not over duties but seeks after her beloved and makes diligent enquiring and will not be at rest until she hath found him But the hypocrite gives up and will not wait upon the Lord any longer Not but that a deserted soul may under the violence of temptations omit duties for a time But his condition this while is most painful restless and grievous to him and he quickly returns-again and never comes to live in a quiet and ordinary omission of known duties Conclu 7. When our weariness and unwillingness is such as makes us fall out with the service of Christ and willing to ease our selves of his yoke and to throw off his burden This is a bad sign But when we fall out with our selves and justifie and approve Christs Ways and Service it is well Thus it was with Paul he doth not quarrel with the Law as too strict and too severe nor think of breaking off his bonds and taking his liberty but he pleads for the Law and greatly approves it and commends it and condemns the backwardness of his own nature Rom. 7. 12. 25. When men are more willing to be rid of Christs burden then of the distemper that makes it grievous and cast about for ease by widening their bonds and not by bringing their minds to them it is a woful discovery of an unsound heart And thus much for this Case Awakening Questions propounded to the VNCONVERTED And Counsels to the CONVERTED THat I may reach every Mans Case I shall speak something to the Unconverted and something to the Converted For the Vnconverted there are these Six Questions which I would advise them daily to put to their Souls Q. I. What estate did my Soul come into the world in Was it not in a state of Death Ephes. 2. 1. An estate of Wrath Verse 3. Sirs awake and bethink your selves where you are and whither you are going While you are in your natural unconverted unbelieving state all your sins are unpardoned and the wrath of God abideth on you Acts 3. 19. Iohn 3. 36. Suppose you saw a poor creature hanging over a burning fiery furnace by nothing but a twine-thred like to break every moment would not your hearts shake for such a one Sirs it is your very case you hang over the infernal burnings by nothing but the small thred of your lives which you know not but it may crack the next moment and then where are you Is this a Case for you to go on merrily and contentedly in Q. II. What condition is my soul now in Am I changed and renewed by conversion or am I not Speak Conscience hath this man this woman man been soundly and savingly changed both in heart and life where are your evidences Can you shew the marks of the Lord Jesus upon your souls Let your conscience answer where was the place what was the means when was the time that thy soul was throughly renewed At least if you cannot shew the time place nor means can you prove the thing Can you say with him one thing I know that whereas I was blind I now see Sirs be not deceived I tell you whatever you be and whatever you do nothing will avail you to salvation except you be new creatures Gal. 6. 15. Q. III. What if I should lose my soul What fair work should I make of it then This is very possible Matth. 16. 26. Yea it is the case of the most There are but few few of the children of men that do escape safe to Heaven Matth. 7. 14. Sirs be aware of your danger and fear lest a promise being left of entring into Rest any of you should at last come short of it Heb. 4. 1. Suppose a man were to travel through some perilous Wood or Wilderness having but one Jewel in all the world in which his All was bound up and should see some stand on one hand and some on the other and hear one company in this place and another in that crying out under the hands of some cruel Robbers Oh in what fear would this Traveller go least he should lose this Jewel and be Robbed of all at once Why thou art the man This Traveller is thy self This Jewel is thy Soul This Wilderness or Wood is this World thou art to Travel through Swarms of sins Legions of Devils a whole world of Temptations these are the Robbers that lie in wait for thy Soul and if all that these can do can keep thee out of Heaven thou shalt never come there Oh what if thy Pride or worldliness thy delays and triflings in Religion should at last betray thy Soul into the Robbers
haunts nor doth he halt between the Lord and Baal nor serve two Masters He doth not fear the Lord and serve other Gods nor divides his service between God and Mammon but he is all for uniformity and entirely devoted to Gods service and fear alone He hath a good conscience willing in all things to live honestly and doth truly though not perfectly forsake all his sins and keep all Gods statutes that are known to him Let me therefore ask you two questions 1. When others divide the Tables do you sweetly conjoyn them in your practice The hypocrite it may be is just and square towards men but follow him to his family or closet you shall find but little of God His family is neglected his soul is neglected Or it may be he is a forward first-Table man but you shall find him tardy in the second He will make many prayers and long prayers yet make no conscience of devouring widdows houses He is a great pretender to piety but mean while neglects judgment and mercy The sincere joyn altogether He is so far careful of justice with men that mean while he will not neglect the first and great part of justice viz. to give God his due He doth justly he loves mercy but withall walks humbly with God He walketh soberly with respect to himself righteously towards his neighbour and godly towards his Maker He is not of those that are good only on their knees but you shall find him every where conscientious you shall have temperance at his table chastity and modesty in his behaviour grace and truth in his words charity in his deeds faithfulness in his trust justice in his dealings He doth not only seem to be religious but bridleth his tongue He is not only a good Christian but a good Neighbour not only a good Man but a good Husband a good Master a dutiful Child a diligent and faithful Servant a good Subject In a word he makes great conscience of discharging the duties of his relations among men 2. When others stick in externals do you look to the spiritual part of every command and principally mind the inwards and vitals of Religion Do you not only make conscience of performing duties but do you carefully look to the manner of performing of them and the ends for which you do perform them Do you not only make conscience of open but of secret sins Do you abound above all in secret duties Do you keep a watch upon your hearts and make conscience not only of the gross acts of sin but even of sinful thoughts inclinations and desires And are grieved even with your very infirmities and the corrupt disposition of your natures which you cannot help though you would Q. II. When others have their reserves in closing with Christ do you give up all to him entirely Have you taken Christ not hand over head but deliberately understandingly sitting down first and counting the cost Have you not secret reserves for your own ease safety estates esteem on some beloved sin Have you upon solemn consideration accepted Christ as the Lord your righteousness for better for worse for all changes of times and conditions to run all hazards with him and to take your lot with him fall as it will Q. III. When others are for a little of religion by the by do you make religion your business Do you not put off God with the worlds leavings and serve him when you are at leisure Must not God stand by while the world is first served and are not your souls the least of your cares and put off with some by scraps and ends of your time Is Religion your Trade and your conversation in Heaven do you walk with God or have you only now and then a turn with him When you have ended your prayers is there an end of your religion till you come to them again or do you carry on a design of religion throughout your whole course Have you only a list of religion at the outside the piece or is the woof of religion woven into the whole cloth into heart and life into your discourse and trades and tables do you first seek the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof Is it the chief care of your lives that God be served and your souls be saved and is this the one thing necessary with you that you chiefly mind and are most solicitous about Do your very hearts say with David one thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after c. Q. IV. When others are for the wages of religion are you for the work Can you say with David I have chosen thy precepts do your hearts come off freely in this choice Had you rather be holy than otherwise if you were at your choice had you rather be Gods servants and live at his command then at your own lusts Do you count the Laws of Christ your heritage or rather do you not count them your bondage Do you choose not only the wages of righteousness but the wayes of righteousness Are Gods Commandments your delight and are the sweetest hours of your lives the hours you spend with him Do you never injoy your selves so much as when you most injoy God Is his service the greatest comfort and is it meat and drink to you to do his will unless when you are not your selves in the time of temptation or desertion Do you make use of holy duties only as men do of Physick when they are ill at ease when conscience lasheth or affliction stings as it were to conjure down the frightful furies or to pacifie God that he may not hurt you or else do you use them as your daily bread the very staff of your life and means of your comforts Q. V. When others are for the cheap and easie religion are you for self-denial When others are for the religion that will serve them best are you for that which will serve God best When others are all upon the sparing hand and will spare what may be spared and study how they may best save charges in going to heaven are you of Princely spirits to resolve not to serve the Lord with that which will cost you nothing Is your course of religion such as doth put your flesh to it and cross and curb its desires Or do you love to give it what it craves and suffer it to take its own way Have you no enemy you dread so much as self Do you pamper and please it and make provision for it or do you pray and watch against it and grieve for its unhappy infirmities in your actions and had rather then all the world that this enemy were under your feet Q. VI. When others are for no more of religion then needs must are you for the height of religion The hypocrite as one well is very inquisitive what is the lowest pitch that a man may have and go to heaven and upon this design if he could find but
Approach him not but in the garments of your elder Brother lest you carry away the curse Ioshua's filthy garments must be put off and Christs Rayment put on or else there is no standing before the bright and burning eyes of infinite holiness Put on the Lord Jesus in believing that is accept of him in all his Offices with all his inconveniencies and deliver up thy self to him and this will intitle thee to his merits and righteousness Without this nothing will avail If thy head were waters and thine eyes a fountain of tears if thou shouldst wear thy tongue to the roots with praying if thou shouldst weep an Ocean and wash thy self in thine own brine all could not get out one spot nothing can be accepted while thou art out of Christ and therefore in the first place apply thy self to him God will accept of no Gift but off his Altar Secondly The white Robe of his grace of Sanctification Rev. 5. 11. Thou that art in the flesh that is unrenewed unsanctified canst not please God Rom. 8. 8. Never think to make up the matter by a little mending and reforming particular Acts Man thy heart must be renewed thy state must be clean altered or God cannot be pleased Matth. 7. 16 17 18. The Tree must be made good the Fountain must be healed or else the Stream will be salt and the Fruit sowr If Christ be once formed in thee that is his image in his grace Likeness is the ground of Love Similitude and suitableness of nature is the loadstone of Affection God cannot but love his own likeness wouldst thou have his Favour wouldst thou be his Delight then conform to his pleasure study to be like him purifie thy self as he is pure The righteous Lord loveth righteousness he desireth truth in the inward parts and takes infinite complacency in the graces of his people These are the Spikenard and the Saffron the Spices the Beds of Lillies the sweet Ointments that Christ is so taken up with These are the Cinamon and the Trees of Frankincense the Calamus and the Camphire the Myrrhe and the Aloes the Chains of the neck and the precious Pearls that he is so ravished withall and doth so superlatively commend Cant. 4. 9. This is the Rayment of Needle-work and Gold of Ophir wherein the Queen is presented to her Royal Husband Psal. 45. 9 13. Therefore as the Elect of God holy and beloved Col. 5. 12 13. Put ye on bowels of mercy kindness put off all these anger wrath malice filthy communication and put on the new Man Col. 3. 9 10. Particularly let me commend to you some special graces which God doth manifest himself to be wonderfully pleased withall As ever you would please God get on these I. Be cloathed with Humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. This is a Garment which must be put on or else you cannot be accepted or saved Matth. 18. 3. Here is the dress that you must come to God in He must be served in humility of mind Acts 20. 14. You must humble your selves to walk with him Mich. 6. 8. Humility is a plain but yet a comely garment This grace doth eminently honour God and therefore God doth put a peculiar honour upon and manifest a most special delight in this Of all the men in the world this is the man that God will lock unto even he that is poor and of a contrite spirit that trembleth at his Word Isa. 66. 2. Though he be the high and lofty One who inhabiteth Eternity whose Name is Holy from whence the trembling soul is ready to conclude that surely such a fearful Majesty cannot but despise him such sin hating purity cannot but abhor him yet he will lay Isa. 47. 15. aside his Majesty and bear with mans impurity and condescend to most familiar and constant communion and cohabitation with his poor dust when contrite at his feet and prostrate in humility If thou wouldst be accepted of God come as Benhadads servants to the King of Israel with a rope about thy neck and ashes on thy head 1 King 20. 32. think meanly of thy self and God will honour thee 1 Sam. 2. 30. Put thy self in the lowest room and God will set thee higher Be little in thine own eyes and thou shalt be high in his A proud heart and a proud look is with God the first-born of abomination As ever thou wouldst have God well-pleased with thee be throughly displeased with thy self If thou dost throughly loath thy self God doth love thee If thou abhorrest thy self God delighteth in thee Be angry with thy self and the Almighty will turn away his anger from thee Condemn thy self and God will acquit thee In no wise extenuate thy sins nor justifie thy self Think the worse of thy self and be willing that others should think meanly of thee and heartily love them that slight thee This is the frame in which God is well-pleased pass sentence on thy self and God will absolve thee Set thy self at his foot-stool and he will lift thee up into the Throne Rev. 2. II. Labour for sincerity This is not a distinct grace from the rest yet for Doctrines sake I speak to it distinctly Vprightness is the great thing that God looks after and covenants for Gen. 17. 1. It renders all our persons and performances acceptable before God Prov. 15. 8. Such as are upright in the way are Gods delight Prov. 11. 20. To these are all the promises of peace Salvation Pardon preservation Blessedness Psal. 87. 10. In a word there is no good thing God will with-hold from them that walk uprightly Prov. 28. 10. This was Noah's praise that he was upright in his generation This was that set off Iob at such a rate that God doth so extol him for and as it were make his boast of him the singular sincerity and integrity of his heart Study to be upright See that the main bent of your hearts be to please God and honour him That Gods interest be uppermost with you That he hath the chief share in you and the eye of the soul be principally to him for in this sincerity doth consist as to your main state Let your great care be of your hearts Here is a Christians great work The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh to the heart see therefore that thou look to it Let thine eye be chiefly there where Gods eye is He looketh not so much what thou dost as with what a heart Go then and do likewise yet be not satisfied in this that you are upright as to your states but labour to approve your selves in uprightness to God in your particular actions Do common as well as spiritual actions with holy ends Much of our lives are lost for want of this So much as is done for God of his strange grace he accounts himself our debtour But what is done for no higher end then self is lost from our account III. 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Cattel and Cattel I will feed my flock saith the Lord God and cause them to lie down I will seek that which is lost and bring again that which is driven away and bind up that which is broken and strengthen that which is sick but I will destroy the Fat and the strong and will feed them with judgment I will be a Physician to you I will heal your backslidings and cure all your diseases fear not never did soul miscarry that left it self in my hands and would but follow my prescriptions Well this is one of the Articles that God here sealeth to that he will be to you in the place of all Relations Silence thou quarelling unbelief methinks I hear thy whispers that this is too good to be true that it were presumption in us to count upon all this What shall they that must say to corruption thou art my father be able to say to the incorruptible God thou art my Father Shall they that must say to the worm thou art my mother and my sister be able to say to the Angels of Light ye are my fellow Servants And to the King of Glory Thou art my Brother and my Kinsman Shall Majesty espouse himself to misery and the worms meat be married to Immortallity and life How can these things be Nay but O heart of Infidelity who art thou that repliest against God Dost thou under a sly pretence of humility question with thy Maker and call his Veracity into doubt Is not this his Word his Promise his Covenant and is not here his Seal why then dost thou doubt O thou of little Faith Art II. That he will entitle you to all the Divine Persons and Perfections Gen. 17. 7. I will be a God unto thee mark God gives away himself and he gives his Son to you Isa. 42. 6. I will give thee for a Covenant of the people This is the Churches triumph Isa. 9. 6. unto us a Son is given And he gives his Spirit to you Iohn 14. 16. He shall give you another Comforter And Believers acknowledge the Receipt 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have received the Spirit which is of God Thus you see all the Persons of the God-head are made over to you and so are all the Perfections of the God-head for so the Covenant runs Gen. 17. 1. I am the All-mighty God or the All-sufficient God walk before me and be upright these are the terms between God and a believer Be thou upright before me and I will be All-sufficient to thee The All-sufficiency of God is the comprehension of all his Perfections Truth without Power or Power without Wisdome or both without Goodness would not be All-sufficiency All-sufficiency takes in all that is in God it we may speak of Gods most simple Essence according to the shallow reach of our present capacity yea it comprehends infinitely more then can be said or thought Why now this is the Covenant of grace which God establishes with you this day that he will be a God All-sufficient to you Christians rouse up your Faith Now appropriate and apply the Promises Now believe strongly and stedfastly and believing will fill you with joy unspeakable and full of glory I do not wonder if your Faith be put to it in so high and great a mistery To draw nigh to the infinite Majesty and consideringly and without hesitancy to say Thou art mine and all that thou hast this is no easie thing But thou mayst not dare to doubt it Canst thou question him who is the Truth can the strength of Israel lie or his word deceive thee But the soul is ready to reply oh the thing is too high and too great for me to presume to believe and is ready with Peter astonied to cry out Depart Lord for I am a sinful man But why doth thine hand tremble and thy heart fail thee and thy feet with Peters when walking on the waters begin to sink What doest thou stick at Is it at the truth of the Promise No saith the trembling soul but sure so much can never belong to me so sinful I am afraid it is not mine why what saith the Promise onely be upright What though thou hast an hundred failings yet thy heart is upright the bent of thy heart is mainly for God and Holiness thou makest conscience of all sin little as well as great secret as well as open and doest not deliberately allow thy self in any thou doest in the settled frame of thy heart prefer the pleasing of God and value his favour and fellowship above all worldly good therefore thou art upright these marks are infalliable What doest thou object thy failings Art thou under a Covenant of works Do you think God now stands upon Perfection The Covenant is plain God conditions but for uprightness and God hath wrought in thee the condition that he requirts of thee What can be plainer wilt thou suffer the Devil and unbelief to catch the Bread out of thy hand when God tells thee it is thine wilt thou be against thy self and refuse thine own peace when God is come to Seal thee up to the day of Redemption This is that which the Lord here Seals to thee That he will be God All-sufficient to thee O believe and be thankful and rejoyce in thine own blessedness O happy thrice happy souls whom the living God thus Signeth and Sealeth to and Assignes over all his infinite Perfections as its everlasting possession Art III. That he will discharge you from all your Debts Heb. 8. 10 12. This is the Covenant I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more Isa. 1. 18. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as Snow Believest thou this Come near beloved Christian approach believingly and here thou shalt see the Lord Crossing our all thy Debts taking away the hand writing that is against thee declaring that he hath received a Ransome and is satisfied Content and Paid Oh happy man that shall leave all thy sins behind thee why this is the very thing that the faithful God doth here Seal unto thee Thy Pardon is writen in this Sacred bloud which is here shed for the remission of sins So that thou mayest triumph with the Apostle Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died Rom. 8. 34. Art IV. That he will save you from all your enemies not from the Combate but from the Conquest The victory shall be sure so far God is engaged So the Covenant runs in its first discovery That the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head though he should bruise his heel Gen. 3. 15. by the Seed of the Woman understand not Christ only but all Believers by the Serpent understand not Satan only but all his party the ungodly persecuting world which are his Children and all our Tyrannous Lusts which are his brood his works By his bruising our heel understand his molesting and wounding of