O that people did but know this to cleanse
them, to circumcise them, to quicken them, and to make them new creatures
indeed! recreated, or regenerated, after Christ Jesus unto good works;
that they might live to God, and not to themselves; and offer up living
prayers and living praises to the living God, through his own living
Spirit, in which he is only to be worshipped in this gospel day.
O that they that read me could but feel me! for my heart is affected with
this merciful visitation of the Father of lights and spirits to this poor
nation, and the whole world through the same testimony. Why should the
inhabitants thereof reject it? Why should they lose the blessed benefit
of it? Why should they not turn to the Lord with all their hearts, and
say from the heart, Speak Lord, for now thy poor servants hear: O that
thy will may be done, thy great, thy good, and holy will, in earth as it
is in heaven! do it in us, do it upon us, do what thou wilt with us; for
we are thine, and desire to glorify thee our Creator, both for that, and
because thou art our Redeemer; for thou art redeeming us from the earth,
from the vanities and pollutions of it, to be a peculiar people unto
thee.
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