2. To be heartily affected with these mercies of God, and to be stirred up to glorifie him, Romans 12.1.
Doctrine 4. Regeneration brings men a lively hope of eternall life.
Reason 1. Because we are called and regenerated to salvation and eternall glory, 1 Peter 5.10.
2. Because we have the covenant and promise of this thing confirmed to us in our very calling.
[♦]3. Because the Spirit wherewith we are quickned, lifts up our minds, and makes that hope to be lively.
[♦] “3” misprinted two paragraphs below before “2.”
Use 1. This may serve to exhort us, highly to prize our calling and regeneration.
2. To endeavour by all meanes to cherish and increase this hope in our selves, and to take heed that it be not dead or languishing, but lively, quick, and operative.
Doctrine 5. The livelinesse of our hope depends upon the [♦]resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead.
[♦] “resursection” replaced with “resurrection”