Read Shephards Convert, Daniel Rogers Practical Catechism, and Hooker, to this end, with such other helps as you may get And herein I am the more earnest with you, because in this my Conditi∣on, I find that Union with Christ, and the Satisfaction Christ hath made to his Fathers Justice, by his Active and Passive Obedience, are the only Two Pillars that must Sup∣port a Soul leaving a mortal Body: For, as I profess my self Ortho∣dox in all Points of Religion,Īccording to the Assemblies Con∣fession, Explained by Others at the Savoy also so I have desired in nothing to be more Clear, than in the Two Doctrines aforesaid: I have wished you to be perfect in Rom. Understanding discovers) will set the Will on work to all duty, and (the worth in Christ it makes manifest) will make the Will de∣light unless these two Faculties be thus wrought upon by the Word and Spirit, you will be at a constant loss, and all the mis∣carriages in Religion have the Ignorance of this for the Foun∣tain. Above all things know, That nothing can do you any good without Union with Christ the Head which can never be, till your Understanding be enlightned with the want of Christ and his worth, and then that your Will be so subdued to that Light, that it draw forth choice, and consent of, and to that only good, with an Emvire or Resolution to close with him against Sin, World, Hell, Death, &c. Will be the less, though your Pains the greater, in searching and stu∣dying them, which next to the Scriptures, I conjure you to ac∣quaint your self withal for never Age was so pregnant that way since our Saviour came in the flesh, which Light I wish may grow to greater Glory. l Cases, which I have often Commended to you my Labour.I Have thought to leave you the Extract of all my Experiences, so far as may Concern your
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