Sanctification

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED FOR A HOLY LIFE. DIRECTION. Several Endow iiicnts and Qualifications are necessary to enable us for the immediate practice of the Law?particularly, We must have an inclination and propensity of our hearts thereunto; And therefore we must be well persuaded of our...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED FOR A HOLY LIFE. DIRECTION. Several Endow iiicnts and Qualifications are necessary to enable us for the immediate practice of the Law?particularly, We must have an inclination and propensity of our hearts thereunto; And therefore we must be well persuaded of our Reconciliation with God, And of our future enjoyment of the Everlasting Happiness, And of sufficient strength both to will and perform all duties acceptably, until we come to the Enjoyment of that Happiness. I Have named here several qualifications and endowments that are necessary to make up iliat holy frame and state of the soul, whereby it is furnished and enabled to practise the law immediately, and that not only in the beginning, but in the continuation of that practice. The first Adam had excellent endowments bestowed upon him for an holy practice, when he was first created according to the image of God; and the second Adam had endowments more excellent, to enable Him for an harder task of obedience. And seeing obedience is grown more difficult, by reason of the opposition and temptations that it nieeteth with simce the fall of Adam, we that are to be imitators of Christ had need have very choice endowments, THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR A HOLY LIFE. 7 as Christ had; at least as good or something better than Adam had at first, as our work is harder than his. That none may deceive themselves, and miscarry in their enterprise for holiness, by depending on such a weak occult quality, I have here showed Four EndowMents, of which a true ability for the practice of holiness must necessarily be constituted, and by which it must subsist and be maintained, intending' to show afterwards by what means these endowments are given to us, and whether the inclination or pro..