The Comforts of the Gospel Must Precede Sincere Obedience

The Narrated Puritan

Gospel Mystery of Sanctification - Direction 9We must have a good persuasion of our reconciliation with God, and of our happiness in heaven, and of our sufficient strength, both to will and to do that which is acceptable to God, through Jesus Christ, that we may be rationally inclined and bent to the practice of holiness: and that these endowments must be had, by receiving Christ himself, with his Spirit, and all his fulness, by trusting on him for all his salvation, as he is freely promised to us in the gospel;