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The beginning of the Goſpel 0 of eſis Chyi/i ihe Murs. 1. 1 
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2 prey wi begining of ar _ che empblnbih (oy 


rhe begi ae Ao br inpar ae! 


E-. ,.the TE knot bo the tearme of the la(t 
» Iſa,2. ph and it ſball come ts ge the laſt dajes : ſometimes by the 
 Mic.4.t, . trme of the atEeprable year bf che Lord, !he Spirit "the Lord is 
a gpon me, to prociaime the acttprable yeur- of rhe Loyd + ſometimes 
"= + by theterme of the Kingdome of God. 4x4 in the dayes of theſe 
» Ia. 61.12. 77,75, ſhall rhe God of heaven up# Kingdome, which ſpall never 
20-3 #** bedeſtroged. Sometimes by t nes a new heaven, anda 
B fe. 65; 17. _ Ge, behold I create new hog and a new earth, "and the 
We<. all not be remembred, nor Fg in» minde. Howlſoever i it 
j {alle , this is concluded chat th bs ow the Goſpel i is = 
to be reckoned froth the birth” dfC 


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: Tos of John the grogryoe oberg ol et ) Xian 4 = 


| . fu ereth violence , or all the Proghet ks antil 
=P ?ols; and whent e Apoſtles were « wp ro gle, of ?uda 
4 Aber 21, 23 ” chooſe a new Apoſtle, it is ſxrid that of cbo/e wen which compe- 
aletotabebetr bY" the _ bates Tom went | in god out 
amor} them, beginning from the baptiſme of 7obn, uxtot that 
he as irons: Pp pane yt be bay fr tobe : woe 'And wa 
ching to Corvelixs and his friends, fi xlowey that the 
Word (or Goſpel) was pablifhed ares #7 ;nd began from 
Galilee, after the © 46-hu whic Joh rec ſee bur 
how i tarely th Fe the beyi of AeGoſplf 
+. Peſus Chrift the Sonnt of Gotl + as it is writrewin The Prop 
' bold 1 ſend my meſſenger ay thy face, which ſhall paokb oo > 
before thee : Tknow that Pohys was (iz months before 
Chriſts , and yet that now was

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Roy of beaven is at hand ; bm, the wotds when be firſt 
each the Goſpel pln wr Boro , and indeed we finde 

elf doth p! do&rine in the ſame words, 
yI to.preach, edn , repent, for the Kingdome of heaven 
;andw when hell nt out his: Diſciples ts each the 
art Frrn be mi.co preach the (ame doctrine alſo, 


duty, and 2. A motive to this duty; '1, The duty i is a 
i6.is.n0t a legal but an evangelical repentance that is bere meant , 
indeed the law _ ſtriftly takes no notice of repentance, bur the 
Gopet true, and through, and. conſummate repentance is a 
| ce. 2, The motive is this , for the Kingaome of heaven 

PZ” This phraze the Kin gdome of heaven, hath ſeveral 
acc tions, and accordingly it hath accalioned ſome differences; 
7. x7 Squier it js taken for that glorious condition of the other 

,, this may beimplyed, but chisI ſuppoſe few underſtand 
eek ſenſe of this place. 2, Sometimesit is taken for the 
Church -of Chriſt, 9. 4. repent, for now the pedagogy of the 
Jewes i isexpiring, or breathing itslaſt, and the Church of Chriſt 

is at band, a people that ſhall beare the very ityle of Chriſtians, 
that ſhall profeſs Chriſt, and cloſe with Chriſt astheir Saviour 
and Mefliah ;. of which Church that you may be a part, prepare 
for it, y-pent. 3. Sometimes it is taken for the ſpiritual King- 
dome of Chriſt, in oppoſitionto thoſe carthly temporal King- 
doms,whicti bare the ſway, & dominecred over ing world with 
cruel andt itiny before Chriſts coming ; 0 Daniel pro- 
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words? CIatthew in briefe Fyeris jth » *Repemt ye, for the Me. x. 3. 


oxe,-pr rec h ſaying, repent; heb Kingd ome of heaven is at mos Mrkes6. 12, 
Jah this Sermon wemuſt obſerye theſe two parts, here's, A Muth, 49, 7+ 


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c, Ob ow ſeaſorable is this. Sertn6n ta,w.?. Chriſtians ! bath 
not the Kingdorne of heayen approacht unto us?- take the King- 
dome of heaven for the Kingdome

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thy duſt, for thy light iz coming, and 
the glory cf the Lord is riſing wpon thee. Or, take the Kingdome of 

heaven, for the preactung of the Goſpel of grace, mercy and 

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no more Apr: how much of the Kingdome of heaven do 
| finde in this age, us there were a new manifeſtation of 
Godunto the world ? and yet I muſt tell you, that the ages to 


come ſhall know more of this Kingdowe, - there ſhall be further 
-andfurther openings of this great myttery of grace unto the ſons 
met: marke the Apoſtle, that in the ages to come be might ſhew 
exceeding riches 4 Hig grace, in his kindneſſe towards #s 

2. 7: how is this? had riot God re- 


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_ veided grace enough in. the former ages? of had net God 
ma rc gh outer benot then call 
in the Gentiles ? awere o0t many thouſands converted at one only 
_—__ what adeple of thac had Pax himſelfe received 7 
tells us that thr grace of owr 
tobim-wards;| and is thereyet more grace to be gevealed ? O yes! 
herein [yes the myſtery of grace, that he hath reſerved exceeding 
riches of grace for the ages to come; grace that never ſaw light 
before ,. and 1 beleeve there is yet. a fuller magazine of the ric 
avis ot ging eren for the ages.to come to be di 
red, then eyer was yet. Oh then'repent 1, repent ? why, ? 
for the Kingdowe of | braven 5s at hand; The very openings of 
Gods love and grace unto ſouls, is a way and-motiveto draw our 
ſouls unto God. Or take the Kingdome of heaven for the 
eaching of the Goſpel:to dil gatiohs, Jewes; and Geatiles, what 
feares and jealoyſies may this breed -in us as well as the Jewes, O 
boaſt not againſt the branches / it -may be how wilt ſay, the 
branches were broken of, that T1 mig» be graffed in , well, becauſe 
of wnbelief they were brok;n iff, and tho ſtandeſt by faith , be not 
high minded, but feare: * For if God [pared not thenatural branches, 
rh hr leſt he alſo ſpare not thee. Behold therefore the goodneſſe, 
__ of Ged « on them which fel: {everity ;, but toward: thee, 
goodneſſe, if thou continue in his goodneſſe : otherwiſe thaw ſult be cxr 
- Fl [ muſt -vot - dwell on this 5. my deligne is to con- » ? 
of Jeſas, \andof the tranſaRtions of Jeſus in reference 
£o our ſouls /health., now. 7obns Sermons were onely a 
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his firſt arrival by revelation, for if whiles' 
he was in his Mothers womb he knew {hrift being yet 'unborne, 
how much more might he know, and acknowledge him now at 
his baptifme? Thus Samxel knew Sax/, and. thus Joby might Mt 
know Ch-ift. Bur for that knowleJge he had after baptiſme, it 


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3. Wherein'was the glory or excellency, of Ehrifſts baptiſme ? 
the antients pive mat! encdifirams to it, - and in fome reſpects 
prefer it to the birthof Chriſt, thus Aug»ine, many great mira 
cles were at Chrifts birth, but they were, far greater #t his baptiſme , 
the holy Ghoſt overſhadowed him in the bathe brightly ſhone 
on him in the river , then'was the Father filent, not @ word from 
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obn the Bapriſt ſay, : one among ff you whom ye know not : 
tre before his baptifme, asa Snn in « cloud, or Socede ina 
ſhell, or a pold mynein'a field; but now he appeares in pabliet, 
and to manifeſt his glory, the heavens open, and from the heavens 
the holy Ghoſt deſcends, and alightsupon his Sacredhead, ard 
Godthe Father gives a voyce from heaven, declaring his divinity 
to the world. - If the Jewes require a ſrgne, | heres not one, but 
many Hignes at once, which "as Heames do diſcover a Sun, 
ſo they diſcover this Sun -of righteonſneffe to (be riſen 
amongſt them : and herein was the glory of Chriſts bap. 
tiſme. ; : 

4. What wasthe prayer of Chriſt, at, or after his baptyſme ? 
the Evangeliſt Zyke ſpeaks of his prayer.” Ir came topaſſe that 
Jeſus being baptized, and praying, the heavens were opened. This 
wasthe manner ofthoſe thar” were baptized, asſoone as they 
were baptized, to come out ofthe water and pray, and fome 
think that rheſe words, they were baptized of him i” Jord2y, C0uÞ 
feſſing their ſins, bath reference'to this: if ſo, then Chrift h4ving 
no ſinsto confeſſe of his own, the tenour of his prayer muſt needs 
be to ſome other purpoſe : bur towhat purpoſe ? fome ſay to 

the ſame purpoſe as his prayers were uſually, as in J+b; 17. that 
his Father would preſerve his Church in unity and tyath, and that 
he would glorifie bis Church, that they alſo might be one, (even ar he 
and bis Father are one ;, and eſpecially that many might be converted 
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this. prayer at- this time; was forthat which followed fipon his 
yery. prayer, (5.) that the holy Ghoſt mig ht deſtend, and that the 
Father would 7 Sho Sowne by a teſtimony from heavtiew ; indeed 


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prayer by the conſequent of it. Before the heaven 


+ was tured up, no Dove to be ſeen, no voyce to be heard, © but 


freight aponit- (as if chey had but waited the laſt word of his 
cayer) all ofthem follow : and inanother place, we finde the 
e returne upog the like prayer, Father, glorifie thy Name then 


on more, if we co 
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be prayed for che viſible- ſealing 'of him 6 that work and 
;by the coming of the holy Ghoſt, - To this purpoſe is that 


1 __ ofthe Goſpel, ir willbeleſſ to conceive 


ofthe Evangelilt, for tins hack God rhe Father ſealed; itiva phraze john 6: 27. 
romp my who give their commiſſions under band PRO 


and feale; avd thisiscertaine, that upon his r God ſent the- 
holy'Spirit who /ea/ed hims, or allowed, and confirmed him tothe 
office of our redemption, and therefore very probable it is, that 


| _—_ tend to that purpoſe , bur herein take heed bf 


what was mentioned in the former opinion , for my 
a; era prayer .was both for himſelfe and all be- 
z that che holy Ghoſt might now be -joyned to the water, 
and that al others as ſhould ever after beleeve in his Name, (as- 
aktefFards heenlargeth bis prayer) might have the holy Ghoft: 
deſcend upon them, Job. 17, 20

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preaching and miniſtry of the 
Go p ky” 7 : oy - 1 . 
»- 6; Upon. what account was: it ; that 'the holy Ghoſt 
' ſhould reveale himſelfe -at:this time ?*: nnd why in the 
©  formeofa Dove, rather then ſome other forme?” . y 
; -* TothefirſtLanſwer; the boly'Ghoſt/ now revealed: himſelfe, 
| becauſe the ſpiritual KingdomeandScepter of Chriſt, in and by 
ED). Lighsfhar, cb ens hs - Red ee of his 
ji: oo Rus [nr 1 my author) -that- the -ſpiricuaineſle of this 
ofthe Brange! Kingdome ſhould be ſealed and. confirmed by the holy Spirirs 
| ſhewing himſelfe even in the beginning of 'it; *.The carnal rites 
Xx _ "of Moſes were now tovaniſh, and his corporal and ceremonial 
- obſervances: were now.to be changedinto a ſpiricual worſhip 
and neither at Feruſalem, nor at mennt Gerazim, nor elfexhere mutt 
there be any more adoration with fleſhly-andearthly ceremonies, 
but he that will worſhip God, muſt wor/p hins in I, 
and therefore it is no wonder,” if now the holy, Ghoſt do reveale 
himſelfe, I ay now, whea his ſpiritval-dominion by ſanRtifica- 
tion is to begin. Secondly, becauſe the holyGhoſt' was now in 
ial manner £0 be reſtored againe.- Sotne obſerve that he was 
viſibly departed from 1/-ael after the death of the lat Prophets; 
andtherefore now at his reſtoring, hecomes in a viſthle and ap. 
parent forme ; and helights on him, ro whom it belongs to give 
the-Spirit, and his gifts-to whom he pleaſeth;”- As John had 
preached that Chriſt ſhould baptize with-the holy Ghoſt, /#& now 
F the holy Ghoſt comes and abides on Jeſus Chriſt 'in-the light of 
wo  7obs, asifthe Father ſhould have'ſaid, now 7 /eale that power and 
| priviledge ts Chriſt my Sonne,” which 7ohn hath ſpoken : wow the huly 
Ghoſt is upon bimſelfe, and hereafter he ſhall baptize others with the 
ſame holy Ghoſt. Thirdly, becauſe at the ; ngs! the Goſpel 
it was moſt ſuitable, that a full,cleare, and fenſible demonſtration 
of the whole Trinity ſhould be made: | The learned obſerve, that 
the holy Ghoſt in Scripture hath a ſpecial regard to expreſſe this 
myſtery of the Trinity upon ſingular occafions, fo the very firſt 
Gebi my, 2,3+thing that istaught in all the Bible is this ſame myftery ; 5» the 
beginning God created, there is the Fathery, and God ſaid, there 
isthe Word, or the Son ; and rhe Spirir of God moved, there is the 
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and uair in T Heare © 1/7 4el, the Lord our God, the 
Nn ( LH ene_denotes the unity . the three —— 
words, the Lord oxr God, anſwer - the three perſons . and the 
4 mille word awr God, deciphers ficly the ſecond perſon who aſſura- 
ed 0ur,nature; how fic thenwasit, that at the beginning of the 
new world, and che new'law, and the bapriſme of Chriſt, rhe 

ns ſhould be reveated; eſpeciilſy ſince. he ordained 
| nero be adminiſtredin all their names ? baptizing them in 

the oj pes ys Father, and of the Sonine, andof the holy hoſt; but March, 38; 194 a8; 
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Ghoſt appeares in the likeneſſe of a dove. This was the "7 
greateſt meeting chat evef was uponthe earth, every perſon | mY 
ofthe Trinury grves fome fenſible evidence of his preſence 
at it, 
”,Tothe ſecond, why in the forme of a Dove, rather then ſome 
forme ? many reaſonsare given; ag, —- 
To ſhew Chrilts i Phocency, purity, ſimplicity, charicy, and 
love, 
2. To ſhew' what innocency and harmleſaes ſhould be in 
thoſe that are baptized... 
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waters, ſo now it 
brings tydings of the abating of Gods wrath upon che preaching 
oth Goſpel. the firſt. dove we finde in the Bible is N-abs 
dove, with the Olive branch in her bill, / proclaiming peace; che - | 
next 1$*/2,49-4.4 dove, . with feathers. (1|ver-white, as_ noting lin- al 
ctrity , then+:E/>y, dove, mourtiing with her voyce, as ſignifying 
patience; ard laftly, Chriſts dove in ocent, ' and harnileſfe, 
row all rheſ properties met in this Dove the <pirit of God Much 


. Wh foremightTadde totheſe, but I deſireto wa to ſore more db; 2 
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poſe? we all know thatin baptiſme are two parts, the outward 
part, and the inward part , you may call them (if you pleaſe ) the 
outward baptiſmeandthe inward baptiſme ; the outward bap. | 
tiſme is of the Miniſter, but the inward bapriſme is of Chriſt. Bur | 
muſt we ſeperate theſe ? or rather joyne them (if theſe in ordina- ] 
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the bapaline.of Jebn are in nattre and ance one, and the 
very ſame. For, 1, Joby preached the baptiſnrt of repentance for 
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Adam in the reſiſting of temptation. Some ſay thatin this 
wilderneſſe during his fortie daies abode; Chriſt was perpetually 
dfturbed gnd aflaulred with evil ſpirits, however the laſt brunt 
is only expreſſed becauſe it was moſt yiolent; now whether they 
appeared in any horrid and aftrighting ſhapes during that time, 
it is not cercaine; but tis moſt likely, thatrd a-perſon of ſo great 
ſanity, and bigh deſignation as Jeſus was, *rbey would appeare 
more angelical and immaterial,and in repreſentiments intellectual, 
becauſe Jeſus wasnota perſonof thoſe low weakneſſes, to be 
affrighred or troubled with anyugly phanrafmes, *cis nor much 
material zo enquire of 'this'; but mm thiswilderneſs (fay they) 

— Chriſt was perpetually tempted ; andin this reſpe& I know not, 
bat the Devil had more advantage ' now he had Chriſt ina wil. 
derneſſe., folitarineſſe ts no ſmall help to the ſpeed of a tempta- 
tion, wo to him that 17 alone, for if he fall, there is at a ſerond to take 
him up. Others ſay, 'that inthis wilderneſfe 'doring his fourty 
'daies abode, Chriſt was continvally: exerciſed in prayer 2hd faft- 
ing ,. all that while he had his immediate addreſſes and colloquics 
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his viſits in ſuch places, Tknow not what others expe- 
riences may be, butifThave found any.thing'of God, or of his 
grace; I may thank a wood, a wildernefe, "a deſert, a ſolitary 
place; for itsaccommodation , and have I not a bleſſed patterne 

here before me ? It was ſolitude and retirement in which Jeſus kept 
his vigils, the deſert places heard bim pray, in a privacie he was i 
Eo borne, in the wilderneſſe he fed his thouſands, upon a mountaine apart | 
be was transfigured, upon a mountaine be dyed, and from a moun- 
Paine he aſcended to his Father , L make no queſtion but in thele 
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ſpirits leading. ., = was feſies led of the $ pirit into the wilder- 
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a world of corruptions, and unlefſe.the Lord pre- 
vent [ am quickly.gone. I may. not here fall 'on the doRtrine of 
temptations 6 only, a few worgs. 1, Of Sathans ſtratagems, 
2. Of ſome general meanes to withſtand bis ſtratagems | and] 
have done: © 7/71 4+ Bos DOR $0; 10THHES; 
1.- His ſtratagers are very many,.. and, very | dangerous 
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©. -1. He obſerves, - and fits bis temptations to our diſpoſitions, 
for example, if be finde aman ambiriouſly affected, theo he co- 
vers his: hook wich the -baite of honours ; andthus he.tempted 
'Abimeletb to-muxtber his brechren, -that he might .obtaine the 
ſoveraignty:; or if he finde a man voluptuoufly given, then he 
zempts him with the baite of pleaſures, and thus he allured Noah 
' to drunkenneſſe; David to adultery, Solomon tO idolatry; or if he 
finde.a wan covetoully given, then be lets in the golden hook, 
and-this beenticed Zalaqms,, by offering bim money to curſe the 
ptople, whom God h bleſſcd-z.. and thus he allured 74s for 
thirty pieces of Glyerto, betray. his Maſter , but what need we 1in- 
ſtances, when we ſeethis day {0 many thouſands intangled in this 
igolden net ?*- - T THT | 7 
© 2: Heobſerves, andfits his temptations to-our completions; 
and thus he tempts-the-.chollorick to quarrels and braules, the 
flegmatick to idienefſe and ſloth , the melancholy. to malice and 
revenge. the ſanguine - to pleaſure and fleſhbly luſts , and hence 
it is thatthe Apoſkle tells us, chat whoſoever is tempted, be i drawn 
away by his own c:ycupiſcence., Sathan never aſſaults ys, bur heis 
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thus if weare. notorioully;wicked, then he cempts us to atheiſme, 
contempt of Gods worſhip, ſwearing, blaſpheming, pr pphgning 
of theLords dayes, to diſobedience, murthers, adulcries,drunken- 


neſſe, theft, . covetouſneſle, and all deviliſh praftiſes,. or if we- 


.are.avikzed, .and run not with others into fuch an exceſle of riot 
and ſinne, why then he temptsus to a good opinion of ſuch'a 
condition, 1 thank,thee O Father, that I ans not as other men, Oc. 
1 deale juſtly and uprightly with all my neighbeurs, 'Fhave a good 


meaning towards God, though I am ignorant of Scripture, and of the 


principles of Religion ;, or if we are profeſſours of Gods truth, and. 


can tip our tongues with glorious words of Religion, holineſle, 


Chrift ; why then he temprs us with teſting on this, what needs. 
wore? if I can but entwardly- performe the, dmties of fey, as the 
hearing of Gods Word, receiving of the Sacraments, publike and pri- 


vate.calling on God ? in this Iam a true Proteſtant, that charity, 
love, goad works, and all the duties of the ſecond table can never 
Juſtifieme,or ſave me, but only faith, I beleeve, 5 I make a profeſſion + 


of Religion, and 1 hope this will ſuffice, or if we are lincere pro-- 
ours, -and but weak in the faich, why then he temprs us wich 
Rad thoughts of our ſins; he ſets before us their number, "and 
nature, and odiouſneſſe in every aggravatipn, and iftherewith 
he cannot overwhelme'us, he adds (it may be) unto them. ſome - 
of his owa (ins, thus he caſteth into our mindes many ontrapious 
blaſphemies,ſuch blaſphemies as he propounded to Chriſt,to wor- 
ſhip hinj for our God, to deay Jeſus Chriſt as our God,our Lord, 


_ our Saviour, our Redeemer, to lay in our hearts there is:no- 
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the doing ofa greater good, bu 
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ry far; thus many times in the hearing of Gods Word, he will 
caſt into our mindes meditations of thivorthat excellent ſubje&, 
on purpoſe to diftrat our mindes, and co make us heare without 
profit ; and m prayer to God he will bring into our” memories 
thisor thur profitable inftruion,  which-we have heard at ſuch, 
or ſychg' Sermon, on purpoſe to diſturb oar ſpirits in that holy 
| exerciſe; "andto keep us from lifting "up out hearts wholty-and 
purely urito God ; 1 might adde a thouſand of theſe ftratagems 


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2 Cor. 2, 11, Apoſtle could fay indeed, that” he was not igworant of bis devices, 


* Bph.6.11. andof ſome of his devices. you" ſee we are rot ignorant , but 
F 5% alas'; who .can difcover all his mecbodr, wiles, depths, 


© fiery darts ? for my part I cannot do it, I am yet to 
- learne. 
2, The general meanes to withſtand his ftratagems are ſuch as 
theſe--- | 

1. A continual reminding of Chrifts commands” in this very 
"Bok. 6, 16,13, thing, be ſtrong in the Lord, and in the power of tus might , put on 
i Per. 5.8, the whole armoyr of God that ye may be able to ſtand againſt the wile, 

of the Devil, him reſiſt in the faith. | 
2. Anavoiding of the firit ſuggeſtions of Sathan ; if this plide- 
ing ſerpent can but thruſt in his head, he will eaſily make roome 
| for his body, and therefore we muſt nip, and bruiſe him in the 

Epb. 4.2% head, give no place to the Devil. 

3. An objeting of Chrift againft all hjs temptations, for 
example, if Sathan tell us that we are miſerable ſinners, we may 
anſwer, that Chriſt came znto the world to ſave finners,, and that he 
Maths 2. 13. was wounded for our tranſgreſſions , and broken for our iniquities,-- 
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. weare ſubje& to the curſe'of the law, we may anſwer, that Chri/ 


bath redeemed ua from the cheſt of the law; when he was made a curſe 
fir ws: ifhe tell us that weare his bond-ſlaves, we may anſwer, 


thit we were ſo -indeed in titnes paſt, but Chtitt hatiy payed his 


- Fathertheprice of ont redemption, and hath ſerus tree : if he 


2 y that we aremmjult, and therefore thall-be condemned be. 


. foreGods judgement ſeare ; 'we may anſwer, that Chriſtwho 
+ wayitmocent,wayitherefore condemned, that we whoare puilty 


nighe thereby be acquitted ; and thac he that cameo ſayeus 
il Nienketſefadge us, and therefore we tieed nor doubrof mercy, 
fweplexd'the merits of Chriſt: or if Sarh#n will not be thas 


\ anfivered by us, why then Chriſtians ! there's no other way but 


to fend him. ro ; to-this purpoſe wemay tell him that 


- Chriſt is bor Advocate, and ifhe will needs diſpute, tet him go to 


Jeſas\, Heis both able to plead our cauſe, andtoanſwer all the 
faits that are made againſt us. 
'4. 1'may adde hearing, reading, meditating, on Gods Word, 


| holy conferences, buſie employment in the works of our parti- 


calling $,; living byfaith, 1 muſt not ſtay on all theſe means, 
y; ub amongſt the reft that one of Chriſt , watch -anidl 

"that ye enter mot into remptation, . praying -againft it isa de- 
gygor it, and a ore pare the viRory , ef og diſclaim- 
ing the entertainment of it , it is a poſitive reje&tion of the crime, 


{ets a calling in auxiliaries from above, to makethe victory 


morecertaineto us. Hence one ſweetly adviſeth, if temptation 


ſets wpon the, db thou ſer upon God ; for he is as ſoon overcome as 


thou art, as ſoon moved to goed, as thou art to evil, br is as quickly 
invited to pitie thee, as thou art to 45k him, provided thow doſt not 
finally reſt i» the petition, but paſſe into aftion, and endeavour by all 
means to quench rhe flame newly kinled in thy bowels, before it come 
to devour the marrom.That if in thy bones : "indeed a it prayer, 
and aJazy, incurious, nnobferyant walking are contra belioi 
Religion, and therefore watth, and pray ; avd pray, and:watch, 


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 nJobns.2. Jndbeare witnefſe, and ſew unto you that eternaliife which was with 
h: the Father and was manifeſted unto us. ; 

"I .. Andthere is reaſon for this manifeſtation, 1, Becauſe every 
as dt manifeſtation 'was an approbation of , his miſſion and divinity. 
wy 2/. Berauſe in the manifeſtation of Chriſt, there was a_ manifeſta. 
tionof the grace of God and this was the will of God, that he 
would rot only a&t free grace, but he would have it known, and 


publiſhed to all the world , this is the glory of grace, and ſetsit ( 

IH out; andtherefore ſaith the Apolile, . :he grace of God that brivy- t 
Tit. 2-21 tb ſalvation, hath appeared to all men. . At the opening and dil ; 

Tit. 3.4, <overy of Jelus Chriſt, the. kindneſs,” and pic, and Jove of God our e 
Saviour towards man appeared... 3. Becauſe this © manifeſtation hy 

hath ſomething in it of the removal of in, it is the yoyce of W: 

Chriſt unto ſuch as arein fin, behold me , the firſt ſtep towards the ar 

Wa.651- wemiſſionof fins is the beholding of Chriſt, now we cannot be- ab 
hold him that will pak. FO into Dog - and therefore ſaith the hir 

t'e, ye know that be was manyejtea,. 10t4ake away our /innes. W 

2:John in ne at e ko manifeſtation hath i it + "Lane Be 


throwing of Sathan ; for the while that Chriſt hid himſelfe, thy 
CO danbinded the mindes of men, but when once Chriſt the image 


| of God ſpone forth, then Sathan like lightning fell down from 
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heaven, for this purpoſe the Soune of God was. manifeſted, that Io 
might deſtroj the Clef he —— Oz this manjfeſts *Jobo 3.8, 
tioricends to our beleeving in Chriſt, and by conſequence to out 6 © 
falyacion through Chrilt,, many fignes Chriſt did _in the preſence of 

bis diſciples which are nit written, Gat theſe are written ( f ith 7ohn) 
that ye might beleeve that Teſus 1s Chrift the Son of God, "and that 
beleeving, ye might have life through his Name. 

Well, but wherein was this firſt manifeſtation 6f Jeſus 2 Tan- 
ſwer, in thoſe ſeveral witneſſes that held him'forth ; 1: 5 written John 8. 174 
in the law, (faith Chriſt) that the teſtimony of twa-men 55 true, but 
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the miniſtry, go preach the Gofpel to every creature. © Oblerve 


but how open Chriſts heart is rowards you, he cannot containe 
his fove, and grace within hitnſelfe,  hecannot - keep his own 
counſelrtbat are for the pood of your ſouls, but all muſt be ma- 
nifeſt, and that'in the openeſt way, by preaching, and proclaim- 
iap them' to the world, Chriſt muſt be laid out ro open view, 
Chrift will have nothing of-his love kept back, he wills and com- 
mands usof the miniſtry,in theftead of all thoſe former witneſſes, + 
to make all known what he is, and what he hath done and ſuffered 
for you. . Oh Chriſtians ! how cheap are the myſteries of the 
Goſpel to you-ward ? you may know them if you will but lend 
aneare, and liſten to them; the Word is nigh you, evenin your 


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months, Chaiſt is: proclaimed rip-yqus;.very-fireets'; you may 
have him.if you will without, money or money-worth ;, come buy 


Wine, "and ilkg, without money, and without price ; d0.you not 
heare? Chriſtis laid open forevety... mans good, and profic, 
Chriſt deales not under-band with you, he muſt be. manifeſted 
that you. may-ee what yp Ivy; af I ſhould te}] you the meaning 
of the commſlion; which Chriſt hach put into our, hands, he bids 
me ſay chus.to your. ſouls; come poore creatures, Jon that ſtand in 


- need of Jeſus Chriſt; here is Chrift for you, take, him and do with 


him inn boly manner what you will, be us of infinite uſe for wiſdome, 


 - righteouſvefſe, ſantiification, and redemption. \Whatis.our preach- 


ing but a manifeſting of Chriſt. in this manner? what is the 
ſumme of allour Sermons, but a diſcovery of chis, that life and 
light isin Chriſt. for you, that erernal love waites and attends on 
you, that whatever may do you goodis provided and made ready 


/." for you ? "Oh will ſouls now refuſe Chrit, when thus, and thus 


* manifeſted.? God forbid. 


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ſhall be full of light, 
Sometimes... 1 confeſle | wonder that in theſe dayes- there ſhould 


.' be ſuch glorious. diſcoyeries, of the beauties, | and ſweetneſle, and 


exceſlencies of Jeſus Chriſt, and.yet that mens hearts are generally 
ſo fu'l of darkneſſe : bur this takes off the wonder, hearts are 
carnal, light ſhines in darkneſſe, but darkneſſe comprebendeth it met : 
lead a blind man, through a glorious City, andthough there be 
fuch and ſuch things in it, yethe tells, you, hecannot prize them, 
he ſcesthem not; though 7era/alem howld\come down from Gia 
out of heaven (as John ſaw it in his viſion) prepared 48 4 bride 
aderned far her. husband : yet.the natural man ſees, neither walls 
nor gates, nor ſtreets , you may tell him, all & gold, and jaFer, 


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whence all this?, jt is becauſe there is,no light, no manifeſtation 
of Chriſt within them, the Spirit of Chriſt hath not witheſſed 
Chrift,hath' not manifeſted Chriſt within their ſouls,and therefore 
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were divers Merchants, - 
and exchangers ot-mony, that brought beaſts thicher-to be ſould 
for ſacrifice againſt that great ſolemnity , at-the ſight. of which | 
Jeſus. being moved with zeale and indignation, he makesa whip . . -©-. 
of cords, and according to the cuſtome ofthe Zealets ofthe - 
nation, he takes upon him the office of a private infliction of 
puniſhment, he drives them all out of the Temple; he overthrows 
the accounting tables,and commands them that ſold the doves to 
take them from thence, pn—_—_ required to give a ſigne of this 
fa&, he only foretells the reſurrection of his body after 
three dayes death, expreſſing it in the metaphor of the Temple, - 
which - was never rightly underſtood till it was accom- 
Pliſbed. | 
In this heroical at; we may fee how Chriſt is carryed 61+ with 
azeale for God, inſomuch as that it brings ro minde that ſaying .. 
of the Plalmiſt, the z:4le.gf thine houſe hath eaten me up, a meta-= Plains Gra ge, 
phor taken from men that receive nouriſhment, which after its . 
ſeveral concoRions is aſlimulated- into the nature of them that 
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did Chriſt here in the exerceof the zeale expoſe himfelfe ? his 
eminent zeale appeares, —- totS 

t. Inthe weakneſfe of his meanes whereby he did both at- 


tempt, andeffeR the work ; we findehim not armed with any 


weapons, that might carry dread andterrour with them, at moſt 
but witha whip made ot a few ſmall cords, which probably were 
ſcattered by the drovers* which came thither to ſell cheircat- 

tle. 2. In the ſtrength thatthe oppoſite power dit#hold 
out, which makes the encounter ſo. much the more dangerous, As 
I. A garriſon of ſouldiers _ at hand to appeaſe occaſional 

tumults:- 2. The temper of thoſe mens ſpirics with whom the 
baſineſſewas, they were m@..ſcrupon gaine, - the worlds god ; 

2. The great confluence of the people, it being the moſt ſolemne 
mart of the Paſſeover ; Oh what a zeale was this, thar-neither 

the weakneſſe of the meanes on the one. (ideto effe& it, 'nor the 
greatnefſe ofthe power on the other fide ed hinder it, did ac all 
diſmay tim or cauſe him to defift ; ſeem he never ſo weak, or be 
they never ſo ſtrong, he whips them out of the Temple, and bids 
them be gone. 

 ThisaGion of Chriſt fulfills that propheſie of 2{alachy, The 
Lord whom ye ſeek ſhall ſuddenly come to bis Temple , but who may 
abide the day of his coming ? and who ſhall tand when be appeareth ? 
for be is like refiners fire, and wi: fxllers ſope , and be ſhall ſit 4s a 
refiner and purifier of ſilver, and be ſhall parifie the ſonnes of Levi, 
and purge theirs as gold and as filver, that they may offer unto the 
Lord an offering in righreouſneſs. | | 

From the maine we may obſerve, -that « per/waſiorof Chriſt; 
preſence in our Church aſſemblies, is a ſpecial meanes or motive to 
bring all into order. 

But what isthis preſence of Chriſt in Church aſſemblies ? if by 
Chriſts preſence we meane his bodily preſence.it istrue,that Chriit 
in his humanity, whipped the buyers and ſellers out of the Tem- 
pls of Feru/alem, thenin his manhood he was upon earth, and 
accordingly he vouchſafed his bodily preſence to their aſſemblies 
and publick places , but now his aol rm is iti haven, and rhe 
heavent muſt containe him till the times of reſtitution of all things : 

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- 2, If by Chrifts preſence we meane his ſpiritual preſence, 
, thequeſtionis, wo pier xtra peter d ? forifwe 
 ayiris his preſence as he is God, I ſhould thea quere, how God. 
+ aid to be prefent with men in one place more then another > 
God in his eſſence is fully every where, and inclufively no where; 
+ heaven is histhroane, and earth is his foorſtoole, and yer nor 
earth, nor heaven, Hor the heaven of heavens is able ro comaine 
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blies ofhis people, we cannot meane his univerſal preſence;burhis. 


eſpecial prefence, andtherefore as yet I ſuppoſe we havenotthe- 
meaning of ir. 1 _ 

3. If by Chriſts preſence we meangthe preſence of his Spirit 
either in himſelfe, or eſpecially in his workings, ſtirrings, aQtings, 
and movings in our ſpirit, I ſhould then ſubſcribe, only I think 
this is not all rhar is included in his eſpecial preſence ; erueit is 
that when Chrift was upon earth, he told his difciples that he 
maſt go away, for if he went not away,the Comforter would not 
, come unto them, #bxt if 7 depart {ſaidhe) I will ſent him unto 
yow 7, & accordingly when that Chnrch- aſſembly was convened at 
Pentecoſt, God ſent the holy Ghoſt, much people beingthen 
gathered at Jeruſalem, that it might bedevulged to all theworld. 
To all theaffſemblies of the Saints, Chriſt promiſed his Spirit, 
Gan not alwaies in a viſible manner, where twoor three are ga- 
thered together in my name (ſaith (hriſt) rheve I am in the midſt of 
them, Chriſtin his Spirit is in the midft of us, ſtirring and moving 
in our ſpirits : or the Spirit of unity is with united ; pirits : Ohe 
is a ſweet Spirit, a Spirit oflove, and concord, and peace, and 
plory , and therefore where ſhould he be but with thoſe thac 
make harmony upon earth ? he is with them, andamongſt them, 
and in them, brow ye wor that ye are the Temple of God, 


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4. If by Chriſts prelence we meane the preſence of his Angels, 
I ſhall then ſay we have ſaid enough , as a King is aid ro be 
where his court is, where his traine or retinueare, ſo Chriſt the 
King of- Kings is there eſpecially preſent, wherethe heavenly 
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heaven; he callsit Gods houſe, where. God and his holy Angels 
who areof -his houſbold are eſpecially preſegt ;. and he calls ir 


the gate of braven, 


becauſe of the 4 ; 
wont to be the jadgement-hall, andthe (place where Kings and 


Senatours uſed to (it, attended by their guard and Miniſters. The 
Catdecaddeth , this 14 n0 commen,”r private place, but a place wthere- 


in God -taketh pleaſure, and over againſt this place u the gate of 


heaven. 
2. When the Lord deſcended upon mount Sina; to give the 


law, ſome place the ſpecification of ods. preſence in the Angels, 


to which parpoſe are alleadged theſe texts, who have received the 


law by the diſpo tion of eAng:ls, and have not kept it : and againe, 
the law was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mcdiatour. Againe, 
the Apoſtle calls the law, the word ſpoken of Angels. 1 bave al- 
ready delivered my thoughts-conceraing theſe Angels , but ſome 
(Ifay) conclude from hence, that che ſpecial preſence of the 
divine Majeſty conſiſts in the encamping of his ſacred retinue, the 
bleſſed Angels, for that the Lord of himſclfe, who filleth heaven 
andearth could not deſcend, or bein one place morethen ano. 
ther, there's yet another text very pertinent to this. And he 


ſaid, the Lord came from Sinai, and roſe up from Stir untothem, he 
m moun: Paran, and he came with ten theuſava: of hu 


ſhined forth fro A 

Saints, from h1s right hand went a ſer) law for them : the words 

tranſlated ter thouſands of bis S 4ints, are in the Original tex thou- 
» thouſands, Or holy miriads, which in 

my appreheni10n points to the Angels, rather then his Saints ; 

and the P/almiſt puts 1t out of queſtion, rhe chariots of God are 

twenty thouſand, even thouſands of Angets, the Lord is among them, 


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_ I know in rar of the ed a =o. ſo fix 
Gods preſence to pur Tem or places of publick afſembli 
for the worſhip ot his Name , but to our Church-aflemblies is 
ſuch why may we not. ? were the rudiments of the law 
hy of an attendance of Angels, and are the Churches of the 
Goſpel deſtitute of ſo glorious a retinue ? did the bleſled ſpirits, 
wait upon the types, and do they decline the office, at the mini 
ſration of the ſubſtance ? is the nature of 4 op 
the incarnation of the Sonne of God ? or have the Angels pur- 
chaſed an exemption from their miniſtry, ſince Chriſt became our 
brother'in. the fleſh 2 we have little reaſon to think ſo, the 
Apoſtle treating ofa comely gnd decent demeanour to be ob- 
ſerved in Church-aſſemblies, and in particular of womens being 
covered, or veiled there, heenforces it from this preſence of An- 


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tory, the ——_ (faith he) is not 4 ſhop of manufattours, or merch- 
=>? *oy but the place of Angels, and of Archangels, the Court of God, 
. and the image or repreſentment of heaven it ſelfe.— 1 know thou 
ſeeft. them nat, but heare, and know that Angels are every where,and 
eſpetially in the houſe of Goa, where th:y attend upon their King, and 
where all is filled with incorporeal powers. By this time I hope we 
know what is the meaning of Chrits preſence in Church-aſſem- 
blies; to wit, the preſence of his Spirit and the preſence of his 
Angels. | 


And if it be ſo, would not a perſwaſion of this preſence of * 


Chriſtin our Church-aſſemblies, be a ſpecial meanes or motive to 
bring all into order? ſometimes] wonder at the irreverent carri- 
ape of ſome hearers, laughing, talking, prating, ſleeping, in ovr 
congregations,what isthis a demeanour beſeeming the preſence of 
Angels. and the Spirit of Chriſt? _ thou carry thy ſelf pela 

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| you 3. 13s 7eruſalem. 


This was the firſt yeare of Chriſt miniſtry; whereof the 
one halfe was* carried. on by his Pr. dromus, or fore- 
runner ?ohn the mo and the other halfe {betwixt 
his bapriſme, and this firſt Paſſe>ver) was'carried on 
himſelfe. - And now hath, Chriſt three yeares co his 
cath , according to the method propounded , ſhall 
come on tothe ſecond yeare, and to his aings therein in 
reference to our ſouls fa vation. 


GHAP.1. "_—_ "i 
of the Heme uareaf. Chriſts minzſtry, and of his atts in 


lat for that yeare. 


SXITS 4 the office- of the Baptiſt -was ex- 

| MA Chrift his Prophetic! 

af eV capes nat 
morning! at preach- 
ame-mepu "the Getpd,: faith and repen- 

= : repent ye , and beleeve the Mark: x, 

"ny lucthiGaſprtas, the ſumme of all his 
ons exprefled and declared : fol cotenined 


How 


TS con wit of which weave for what is the 
Goſpel but a covenant of gene the imperfeRtions of 
| durworks are madeup e_perfeftion and grace-of Jeſus 


it ? poor Lis beta works (5.) itisnotan 24 
me Rock pf ; innocence, . requiring ri and *\ of 
a(t obe any allowance of repentance; no, no, 
WE Il that'failes, repent, and be. 
leve. . thiptime chewark irrhis haod was grown- high and 
, \and Jelusſaw jt conyenient tochooſe more diſciples ; 
thisfa he goes up and down the whole Galilee,  preach- 
ngthe Goſpel of the Kingdome, healing all manner of diſeaſes, 
niacks, cleanfir F ng lepers, giving ſtrength to paraliticks, 
andto lame people. 
It js not my purpoſe to enlar e onall the Sermons, miracles, 
conferences, or colloquies of Chriſt with men, T am not 
for .large volutgs; and 1 ſuppoſe with Joby , that if all the 
a&s of Chriſt ſhould be written wich commentaries on them, that 
even the worldit ſelfe could not containe the books that ſhronld be | 
writtes. ohn 8, 27, 
Inthis yeate therefore ſhall contra and limit my ſelfe to the 
conſideration of Chriſt in theſe two particalars, as firft to his 
Fff2 : preach. 


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I. Is preaching this yeare ws frequent, and amongſt 

4--others.. bis Sermons, - now-.it was that he deliver. 

ed that firſt, Sermon, ' repent for the Kingdome 'of heaven i at 

' 2, Now was it that he delivered. that ſpiritual and myſtical 

Toki. 3. 6: Sermon of regeneration, at which Nichodemus wonders, how can 

0.3 * maybe borne when be: 12 01d? can he enter the ſecond time into his 

wothers womb and be borne ? but Jeſus takes off the wonder, in 

relling him, this was not a workof fleſh and blood, but of the 

Spirit of God, for the Spirit bloweth where it iſteth ,, and is as the 

windecertaine and notoriousin the effe&s, but ſecret in the prin- 

4 ciple, and manner of produRion. Then Chriſt proceeds in his 

+. Sermon, telling him yet.of higher things, as of his deſcent from 

' $ | heaven, ofhis paſſion and on, and of the mercy of redemp. 

# tion, which hecame to work andeffect for all that beleeve, of 

* - thelove of the Father, the miſſion of the Sonne, the rewards of 

| faith, andglories of verciey, Andthis was theſumme of his Ser- 

. mon to Nichodem, which was the fulleſt. of myſtery and ſpecu- 

| lation that ever he made, except that which he made immediately 
before his death, | 

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there ſuch nerscaft out of that fiſher-boat before ,. whiles he 
was upon land he healed the (ick bodies by his touch, and now 
he was upon ſea he cured the fick fouls. by his dodtine; 
F: he that made both ſea and land, cauſeth both to conſpire 


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BY. ak «a8; 359 Now it was that he preached that bleſſed Sermon on that 


text, the Spirit of the Lord z5 #pon me, becauſe he hath anoynted mt 
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niſfiontill che end of che world , Thus the Goſpel is called, a 
great ſalvation which at the firſt began to be ſpoken by the Lord,: and ' 
was confirmed unto us by them that heard” ba. Chriſt in his own Hcb.2.3 
perſonal preaching is ſaid but to have begun to teach, AR. 1. 1; 
and the conſumrmate publication was the © ſending of ;the holy 
Ghoſt ro theſe ſelec veſſels, who were to carry abroad this trea- 
lure unto all the world, it was began by the Lord; andit was c 
confirmed: by them that were the diſciples of the Lord. Jn this 
reſpe& we cannot look on the publiſhing. ef the Goſpel ro the 
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Chtiſt to teſtifie the glory: of his Goſpel,'-at the day of his in- 
ſtalment, and ſolemne readmiiſion into his Fathers glory, be 
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relſing them of itheirſins; and.densuncing the judgements of God, 
but Chrift -revlaimerbenrandraoaed: 4hrt fromfiane:;' hence 
it is ſaid, - that be > port voy ax. mera oye not 4s the 
Scribes , it came drily and coldly from them, but it came from 
him - as being | full-6F: conviction. ' and” reproofe , full of 


. the evident demon#tration of the Spirit, and of power. 


15; Other Prophets mightnaqr predch themſelyes ; the Apoſtle 
mGahs agaicift felfe-commenders;we dare wor ((aith he) aatke our 


2 Cor.10. 12. ſelves of-the namber, or compare owr Jelves with ſomethat commend 


themſelves. Yea; Chrifk bimieife relating to himfſelfe, as a mecre 
man; ſaith, that be winuſſe; i not true By he beare witneſſe of him- 


felfe]\ But in!ahother- place; relating to: himſetfe as Mediatour, 


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record is true. Here then is a wide difference, betwixt other 
Prophets irpreſpect of their office, and Chrift';-rhey- might not 


preach themſelves, but he heares-witneſle of himfelfe, 'becauſc he - 


hath not a greater ic the:point of ourJultification;” fanRitication, 


and ſalvation to 'beatganitabflſe of then himfelfe; And. hence are 
thoſe . ſe) fe-predigiiniadZodi bis which wefinde'in Scriptures, as, 
Lock unto mt, (Tidal the ends of the earth. Come nnto 
me all ye that laboti and are heavy laden. ' And conferring with 


the two diſciples; it is! ſaid, :\that begirming at Moſes and all the 
Prophets, be exponnaed rnto them ws all the "Scriptures the things 
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ofthe Temple, he rebuked them rarher; but when he: fees the 
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aire my Tove, behold thou art faire, there is no Spot in thee, -my ſiſter, 
he ouſe, thou haſt wounded my heart, thou haſt wounded my hear: 
with one of thy eyes, Cant. 4. 7, 9. To conclude ,- he-that both 
wrought this faith, and wondered ar it, dorh now reward it, go 


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was healed in the [elf ſame houre. | 

3.. Now it was, even the day after, that Teſws goes into the City 
Naim. The fruitful clonds are not ordained to fall all in one 
1d, Naiwmuſt partake of the oury pf Chriſt as well as Caxa, 
or Capernaum, Thither come, he no foontr entersin ac the gate 
ofthe City, but he meets a funeral; a. poore widow, with her 
weeping friends, is folfowing her only ſonne to the grave, Jeſus 
obſerving her ſad condition, he pities her, comforts her, and at 
laſt relieves her : here was no folicitor but his own compaition, 
in hisformer miracles he was ſought and fued to , his'mother ar 
the marriage-feaſt begged a fupply of wine, theRuſler catneto 
him for” a ſonne, "the Centurion came to him for a ſery4nt, but 
now Chriſt offers a-cure to gives a lefſon, that whiles we have to 
do with the Father of mercies, eur miſeries and affiiftions are the "4 
powerful [mitors, Chriſt ſees and obſerves rhe widows ſadnelſle, 
and preſentlyall parts of Chriſt conſpire her good, his heare melts 
into compaſſion other, bis tongue ſpeaks cheerfully and cotoforc- 
ably to her, weep not ; his feer © carry him ro the Beer, © his hand 
toucheth the coffin axd he ſaid, young man 7 ſay mito thee, ariſe . 
ſze howthe Lord of life ſpeaks with command ; the ſame voyce 
ſpeaks to him, that ſhall one day ſpeak to us, and raiſe us out of 
the duſt of the earth, neither ſea, nor death, . nor hell can de- 
taine their dead * when he charges them to be delivered; we ſee 
not Chriſt ſtretching himſelfe an this dead corps, as Z/iah, and 
£liſp4upon the ſonnes of the S»namite, and of the widow of 
S$arephta ;, nor ſee we him kneeling down and praying, as Peter 
did for Dorcas, but we heare.him ſo ſpeaking to the dead, as if the 
dead were alive, and ſo {peaking to the dead that by the word he 
ſpeaks, he makes him alive, young man I [ay nnto thee ariſe , and 
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; the lame power , that can- raiſe-o0e men, - canraile a 
f - amillion, aworld, Chriſt here raiſ{i a widows ſon, 
: andchen Lazar, and laſtly at his 
on he' x a many at once; he raiſed one from her 
NO Eo irbes! another from his grave, and many. 
| Enoce from” their rottenneſſe, that it might appeare no de- 
"gue of death can hinder che efficacy of his Almighty 


4. Nom ic waxthat in he Sy gg ue he findes <laber had a Luke 434+ 


| of Fo uncleane devil. This, I take it, is the firſt man.that we 
(kd witha devil And berrued, let 9 alone, what _ Io 
_— with tbee?: KC, | intheſe words the devildiftates, © 
man yeah, and whereas the words are plural, /et ws alove, it 
rob he ſpeaks of himſelfe, and of the \reft of the menia 
gogue with him. So-high and dreadful things are 


bott ep comi —— ( Mal, 3..2. ww mayo 1. 


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Ged.; 
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kim, the word bo! thy-peate, is in the original 2444347; be muſled; 
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not with any gaſhes;1 in his fleſh; or diſmembring of his body, for 
he hurt him not, but with ſome convulfion firs (as it.is ſuppoſed ) 
then he threw them in the midſt, and made an horrid cry, and fo. "©: 3% 
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power as Jeſus Chriſt did; Thus when m 
Eliſha 'with twenty loaves and ſome full eares of corne'*fed an nc 
hundreth men, give wnto the people { fayes he) thar they m ear, as 
2 Kings 14, audibis ſervitor ſaid, what ſoould 1 [tt this before ax banded, mem ho, 
422 43+ he ſaid againe, give the people that they may eat, for this ſaith the to 
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F Aff9.34 Chrift makgththee whole. And when 'hecured that man that 
was lame from bis mothers womb, whom they laid daily at the 

AR. 3.6. gateof the' Temple, ſi/ver and gold have I none (ſaid Peter ) but 
 Þ ſuch as I have give 1 thee, in the N ame of feſm Chriſt of Naza- 
| " reth, riſe up, and walke ;, but our Saviour comes in an higher 
Marte 5. 4x. ſtraine to the dead damfel, I ſay unto'thee, ariſ> : andinan 
| 0 - higherſtraineto the ſtormy winds and ſeas, peace and be fill: and 
Marke 4, 39- in an higher firaine to the raging devil inthe poſſe(ſed, be muſled, 
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having now gone 
through all che world, theſe miraclesceaſe : if new additions of 
miracles for the confirmation of es tar ſhould be expeRted 
in every age,the former miracles of Chriſt and his Apoſtles would | 
be ſleighted of all; indeed Chriſt tells us of great ſignes and won- Matth, 14. 14; | - 
ders that ſhall be in + the laſt dajes, but withall he tellsus of fal/+ | 
Chriſts, and falſe Prophets, that muſt work them, it maybe 
ed whether thoſe are true miracles, or meer deceptions and 
magical pretences, but becauſe they are ſuch as the people can- 
not diſcerne them from miracles really ſuch, therefore it is all one 
asto them; herethen is Chriſts rule, beleeve them not, be- 
hold T have told [you before; he that foretold us of the man, fore. 
told us alſo of the impoſture, and commanded us not to cruſt 
him ; inchis reſpe& it had been more likely for Antichriſt to 
have prevailed upon. Chriſtians by doing no miracles, then by 
doing any, for if he had done none, he mighr have eſcaped 
without diſcovery, but by doing miracles, or wonders, be both 
verified the wiſdome and preſcience of Chriſt, and he declared to 
the Ele& that he was the very enemy of « briſt. As all the Pro- 
phers that ſpake of Chriſt, bade us beleeve him for his miracles, fo 
all that forerold of Antichriſt bade us disbeleeve him for his mi- 

racles; which occaſioned Ang»ſtine to ſay, Againſt ſuch miracle- COUT Mira 

mongers God hath armed me to take heed. Go ot forth unto ſuch, Guts of 1/.ds 
faich Chriſt, Marth. 24. 26, and therefore brethren ſtand faſt, 2 m——_ bels 
faith Paxil, 2 Theſ. 2, 15. the great beaft deceiveth them that Aug in Fohan« 
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are yet in your blood, why Lordif thou wilt 
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eAfter this there was 4 feaſt of the Fews, and Feſus went up to Fe- Joha 9, x, 
r#ſalem : Some would have this feaſt ro be Pentecoſt , and to 
| ſpeaktruely,themoſt ofour commentaries run that way:others 
take this for the feaſt of the Paſſeover, and the rather becauſe 
the Ganges 7obn reckons the time of Chriſts publike mini- 
ſtry by ſeveral Paſſeovers, now if this feaſt were not a 
Paſſeover, we cannet findein the Goſpel ſo many Paſſeoyers 
as to-make up Chriſts migiſtry three years and an halfe. On 
this ground 1 joyne with the latter opinion , and ſo hereI end 
' theſccond yeare of Chriſts miniſtry, and come to the third, | 
andto hisaRtings therein in reference to ourſouls ſalyation. <a 


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to ſet men apart to witneſſe his Name, and to publiſhto the worl1 
the Goſpel of Chrift > this he would got do wiftiour much . , 
prayer. - Sometimes we finde Chriſt praying alone, -ggelſewhere 
he mens uÞ into 4 mountaine apart to pray ;, and bere oo9iis moun- Match. x4. 2,, 
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caine without any of his diſciples, or domeſticks--abourhim he 
prayes alone, thus when thou prayeſt enter into yelſet, * (faich 
Chriſt) and when then haſt ſhut thy doore, pray tothy Fathey which 
u in ſecret, and thy Father AE ta ſecret ſhall reward thee 
openly. Sometimes we finde Chri praying at night :. 4 vhe day 
ime he was teaching in the Temple, and at mght be'went out and 
hide in the maient , that is called the monnt of olyves : See Chriſt in 
che exerciſe of his double office, he preacherh all day,and prayes 
all night, this rext tells ts, he continued all night in prayer, Night- 

rayers bavetheir ſpecial, ſpiritual advantages, 1, Itis a time 


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fitter for compun&ion, and heart-contrition, all the night wake 1 


my bed te ſwim, I water my conch with my teaves. As ſome things 


| are by heat parched in the day, but cooledinthe night ; { many 


| at night : 
night-teares are as ſweet dews that coole the heat and pride of 
our ſpirits." 2. It is a time of filence and free from diſtraction, 
then all tumults ceaſe, and in the fecret of our'ſculs we may (i- 
lently go and ſpeak with our heavenly Father. 1n this reſpe& 
we have a bleſſed example of Chriſt praying at night, and eſpeci. 
ally now ; O he wasabout thegreat work of ſending his Minifters 
through all the world, and therefore now he ſpends all the night- 
long in prayer to his Father; agreat ard extraordinary work i 
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they might be ſent up anddown the wprid to perſwade men 
toſalyation. The diſpenſers of God s Word muſt. look ta their miſſion, 
they minſt not intrude npon ſo\'ſacred a buſineſſe before they are ſent; 
Now.this miſſion is either extraoffUinary by immediate inftin&, 
andrevelation from God, which.is ever accompanied with im- 


mediate ard infuſed guifts, and this was the caſe of the Apoſtles , 


br ordinary ,by impotitionof hands and eccleſiaſtical deſignation : 
and'ia this likewiſe is requred fidelity, and ability. 1. Fidelity, 
it is required of ſtewards that a man be found faithful, that he 
lefraud not Chriſt of his purchaſe, which is the ſouls of men, nor 
men of their price,.and priviledge which is the blood of Chriſt , 
that he watch as a Seer, that he ſpeak as an Oracle, that he feed 
a5a ſhepheard, that he labour as an husbandman, that he be in« 
ftantin ſeaſon and out of ſeaſon, toexhorr, rebuke, inſtru, to 
do the work of an Evangeliſt, to make full proofe of his miniſtry, 
becauſe he hath an account to make. 2, Ability both for righe 
information of the conſciences of men, and for the ſeaſonable 
application of truth to particular circumſtances, which is thag 


which makes a wiſe builder. Ah / who # [ufficient for theſe things? 2 Cor. 2, 16. 


how ſhould we but deteſt the prefumption of thofe men, who 
run before they be ſent, who leap from their manual trades into 
this ſacred and dreadful office, unto which heretofore the moſ 


learned and pious men have trembled to approach ? » 
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ef your happineſie. 1. Here's our duty, \I meane ours of the 
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repent ſwearers, repent drunkgrds, repent ſinners, for the Kingdome 
een 4s at hand ;, Goſpe|-dilcoveries are made every day, 
Chriſt is ariſing and ſhining in our horizon more and more clear- 
ly, that great gne-of Gods love -to-our ſouls 'is manifeſted in 
every Sermon, ofrevery Sabbath : .is not this Golpel-preaching 2 
what is the Goſpel, but the treaſure of Gods love in Chriſt opencd to 
;/? Ob iris a plea/ant work in chis reſpe& 'to bea Miniſter of 
the Goſpel, to be alwaies ſearching into the treaſures of love, and 
to:makethem” known'to pooreſouls © for the gaining” of them 
unto God. | 2. Here is your happineſle ; Chriſthath not ere&- 
ed any ſtanding ſanRuary, or City of refuge-for men to flye to 
© their ſalvation, but be hath appointed-Ambaſſadors-to catry 
ehis treaſare-{unto mens houſes, where be. envites them, and 
entreats ther, 'acid: requires them, and'commands them, and 
compelle them - ro come 10.” Oh the -unſearchable” riches of 


Chriſt ! 1; 1nreſpe& of che meſſengers.” 2. Inreſpe& of their 
meſſage. | 

I. Fn reſpe& of the meſſengers ; they were firſt Apoſtles; 
now Miniſters, poore earthen veſſels. Had Chriſt himſelfe come 
in his glorified body, attended with his Angels, it might in ſome 
meaſure have reprelented his Majeſty, but alas ! how wonld this 
have dazled your weaknefſe ? 'or if Chriſt : had made-ufe of his 
e didar bis birth"to preach his Goſpel; had chey 
continually come in ſtate and proclaimed ſalvation to the ſons 
of men, this would bave ſhewed more glary, but alas, how un- 
fitable bad this been to your weak conditions? here then is the 
riches of his grace, that earthen veſſels ſhould carry this treaſure, 
that ſalvation ſhould come out of the mouthsof ſinful creatures, 
that hearts ſhould be broken, ſovls ſhbuld beleeve, life ſhould be 
infuſed by the miniſterial breath of a weak worthlefſe man, we 
have this treaſure in earthen veſſels, that the excellency of the p-wer 
may be of God, and not of us ; Gods power | is more honoured this 


way,than if an Angethad comein perſon , it may be in that caſe 
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Aſinners converſion would have been attributed'to the power and 
efficacy of the Angel, . but to. prevent this, apd to preſerre the 
glory of his power and grace, Chriſt takes the treaſure, and he 
puts it into earthen veſſels, ; it is inthe Original weſl; of fell, 
as precious pearles are found in ſhells, ſo the pearle is the Goſpel, 
and che ſhel}or mother of pearleare the Apoſtles and Paſtors , 
itistrue they are veſlels of . ſmall price, and ſubjet to many 
knocks and falls, ' yetin them is the moſt excellent treaſures of 
the wiſdome of God, and of the Goſpel of Chriſt, And it is in 
them on purpoſe, that the excellency may reflet on God, and 

not on them, 

2. In reſpe& of the meſſage. O the unſearchable. riches of 
Chriſt 1 whats the meſſage of theſe men? what is the treaſure 
they bring, but the blood of Chriſt, the promiſes ofthe Goſpel, 

. the Word of grace? I might ſumme up all in one word, they brins 
untomen an invitationfrom heaven, to heaven; obſerve it Chriſti- 
ans., the Goſpelis a meſſage} the Lord ſends his Sonne up and 
down, .. carries him from fore to place, he is ſet forth before 
mens eyes, he comes, and ſtands, and calls, and knocks at their 
dores, and beſeecheth them to be reconciled : ' O the free grace 
of God / Othat , pardon, preferment, eternal life and 
falyation ſhould goa ging, and ſuing for acceptance ! Othe 
love of finne, and madneſle of folly in wicked men, to trample on 
ſuch pearles, and to negle& ſo great ſalvation when. it is tendered 


unto them | O what a heavy \charge will it be for men at the laſt 
day, to havethe my God, thehumility of Chriſt, the en. F 
the Spirit, the proclamations of pardon,the approaches 


of falyation, thedaies, the years, the ages of peace, the miniſtry 
of the Word, the Book of God, the great miniſtry of godlineſs, 
to riſe up in judgement, and to teſtifie againſt their ſouls ? O the 
condeſcentions of Chriſt / who are ye that the Lord ſhould ſend 
after you ? what need hath God of you ? ſuppoſe you ſhould go 
onin the wayes of death, and periſh eyerlaſtingly, what ſhall 
God . loſe by it ? Chriſt might lay, if you will goon, goou and 
periſh , if you love ſin ſo well, take Jour pleaſure in it, and be damned 
evermire. Ah no, faith the mercy of Gad,. and the mercy of 
Chriſt, before that be, meſſage after meſſage, precept wpon pre- 1a 28, 10? 
cept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ,, here a 
little, and | there a little. This was the deſigne: of Chriſts 
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them the way to my Fathers 
" baſome, awd erdeare them to my Fathers heart. 
Apain, hither tend all chofe Arguments of God and Chriſt, 
to draw ſouls to themſelves. Thus Gad draws arguments, 
1, Fromhis equity, heare ow O houſe of 1ſrael, i not my wa 3. —_ 
equal ? or ave not your wayes unequal? 4.4. T appeale to your —_— 
ery conſciences, is this equal, that ſinners ſhould go on in ſinne, MF 
and treſpaſſe againſt him that is ſo willing to receive” and fave 
poore' ſinners? 2, From our ruine; in caſe we goon in'fin; caſt 
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away fromgon all your tranſgreſions, whereby 24. hve trian(greſſed, 
and make youa new heart, Ry a new ſpit, ; for why will ye aye,0 
henſe of Tſracl 7 3. From hisown dillike-i and diſpleaſure at our 


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readineſſeto pardon finners,  /ct the wicked forfake bis 
34), and the wnrighteous man histhenghts, and let himreturne unto 
"the Lord and he will have mercy xponthim, and to our God for be will 
abundantly pardon, 5. From the freenels of his love, 7 will love 
them freely, and God ſo loved; he warld io fully, fo fatherly, fo 
freely, that he gave his only begottem Son, & cc. And Iwill give unto 
bim that s athirſs of the fountaine of the water of if freely, 
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eping mercy for thuuſands, forgiving imquit), tranſpreſſion, and 
Es - Re the benefits at ond follow, O A thou hadſt 
harkened to my \commanaments, then had thy peace been as ariver, 
and thy rigbteouſneſ[e as the waves of the ſea, thy. ſeed alſo bad been 
as the ſand, and the of ſpring of thy bowels ike the gravel theredf. 
8. From his oath, / As ve, ſaith the Lord, 1 defere not the death 
of a finyer,, but rather that he ſhould tarne from hu wickedneſſe and 
live..:. O bappy creatures” (ſaith Terrier) for whom God 
ſweares, O unbeleeving wretches if we willnot truſt God ſwear- 
:! 9. From hisexpoſtulations, trne yea, twrne je from your 


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;. cor mayer, for why will ye dye O houſe of Iſrael ? —O my peeple, 


what have 1 done te thee ? and wherein have I wearied thee ? teftii- 

againſt, me, +— what could. {have dont more for my vineyard they 
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grepes,” brought it forth-wild grapes ?. 10., From his appeales, 
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Q Je mountaines the Loras contraverſies and ye fireng founaations 
of the earth, for the Lord linth a contraver fie with hu people, and he 
will plead with Tſrael.. 11. From bis groans, Oh that there were 
ſach au heart wn them that they would feare me, and keep my com. 
mandments alwayes, that it might be well with them, :and their 
children for ever... .. And 6h that they were wiſe that they underitod 
this, that they would conſider their latter end, 12. From his loath- 
neſs to give men up, how ſoall I give ther wp, Ephrgim ? bow ſhall 
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int497e kindiedrgber, D ihe goodueſſeaf Godt. 

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' win ſouls, to. bimſelfe, x. From his: coming ; "it was the very” 
purpoſe and defigne. of his coming down f.om heaven to receive 


ſigners, this is @ faithful ſaying. ( TRyes Pant) and wortby of al[* 3 3-15 
acceptation; that (hrift Feſus came into the world to ſavt ſinners. 
2.” From his faire demeanour and behaviour towards ſinners, 
this was ſo.opea and notorious, that ir was turned to his diſgrace 
and approbry, Bebold a friend of Publicans and ſinners: Andthe Math. 17, 195 
Scribes and Phari ſees murmuredat him, and his diſciples, ſaying, 
why do ye eat & arink with Publicans and noms ?3.From his own- Luke 5. 30+ 
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ſwering [aid unto them, they that are whole need not a Phyſutian, but 1,uke 5,11,52 
they that are ſick, Icame not to call the vi ehreaw but Jnr to re- 
pentance.. 4. From his rejoycing at ſinners converſion :* indeed 
we never read of Chriſts laughter, and we ſeldome read of Chriſts 
joy,. but when it is at any time recorded, it is at the conyerfion 
of a pooreſoul ;, he had litle elſe to comfort himſelfein, being 
- & man of ſorrows : but in this he rejoyced exceedingly, in that x,yero.2s 
howre Jeſus rejoyced in Spirit ;, it was in that houre when he ſaw 
anhand(e] of the fruit of his diſciples miniſtry, asancarneſt of the 
many.thouſands that ſhould afterwards come in,, and 1 amglad Ren 
for your ſakes that 1 was not there (faid Chriſt when Lazarus was "_ 
dead). but why was he glad ? it follows, ro the intexr ye may he- 
keve..,. He rejoyced if any of his got faith, alittle more faith, 
more.and more faith. 5. From his grief in caſe of ſinners not 

epenting ;. witneſle his ceares over 7eru/a/cm, and thoſe ſpeeches. 
of his. and when he was come neare, he beheld the City, - and wept 
over it, ſaying, if then hadſt known, even thou at leaſt in this thy day 
the things which belong unto thy peace ; but now they are W/ __ 
thine eyes ? look asit is with a man. carrying to be buried; his 
wife weeps, his children weep, his friends weep, ſo our Saviour 
follows 7:ruſi/em to the grave, and when he can do no more for 
it, he rings out this doleful paſling-bell, © char. thou hadſt known, 
&c, .6,. From his wiſhes, groanings, Oh 7eruſalem, Feruſalem, 
tho that killeſt the Prophets, and ſtoneſt them-which _ are ſent unto Math. 22, 37}. 
thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even © 
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fe fern alem, which he diſcovers. ' 1. .In his frequent applica- 
tionsto it, how often ? 4.4, not once, nor twice, nortbrice, 
but many, and many a time have I come to. Feruſalem,, and ſpoak 
to ?eruſalem, and woed Jrnctien, bow often ? 2. Tn theaRing, 
exercifing, and putting forth'of.his will, how often would I have 
gathered thy childrexs together ? the will of Chrift. was ſerious, 
chough notdbſolite, T know his divine will abfolutely conſider- 


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fmplicir com- ygger her wings; in the metaphor Chriſts care is admirably diſ- 
PRs. \@ played- 1. Asthe ben with her wings covers the unfeathered 
. N or Job "” chickens: 2. As the hen providesfor their food,, not epningNer 
'  ſelferill they arefilled. 3. Asthehen defends her chickens from 

the ravenous birds, ſo'that to blood ſhe will fight in their defence 

ES ſo hath Chriſts care been for feruſalem. Na bird (faith Auſtin) 
expreſſeth ſuch - tender love to her young ones 'as the hen doth ,” nO 

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onn faveyour ſouls, unocare ſo little as your fouls 
ſtrove towards you a inarof love; and you {trove 

rae I would have done you 

bux you would not receivei ; 1 menls yea bow ofremwaald [?\but 

Jo would not. 

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Chriſt, as Chriſt is 
willing co receive. you, ſo be you willing to give,vp your fouls 
to hin 6 Wolitts. "ts this 1 may lay down/ in -rheſe. par- 

ticulars. — + T5 ; 9) - BU) 23 Ho? 
1p, The doQrine of Chriſt "Come ante me,——and bim that com- 
ethavito me 1 will in ws wiſe eaſþ ont. - All the arguments of God 
and Chriſt; of which you have heard, the pradtiſcof Chriſt whites 
hewas yponearth, and che heart of Chrift:nowin heaven, lay 
theſe together, and apply them to your own ſouls, oh what work 
make ſ C 


©3 3: Thy calls of God, and Chrift;'as they are frequent in 
riptrires ; outer that nf twery one that thirſts, come yt 
rothe waters! Ia; 55; 1. | Ho ] be begins \ proclamation-wite ; 
we uſually lay, vocations, l xRions ſpeak very affeRionate 
motion towards the diftreſſed; certainly Chrifts love is 4-very 
affeQionate love, 'he layes his mouth to theeares of toſs that 
areſpicitually deafe, and cries aloud, . Ho [every eve] Chriſt in- 
vites all : a4 many 45 ye ball finde, bid them to the marriage, Mat. 
22.9. as the heavens-are general in their influence, not one 
graſſe on the d buc*tisbedewed ; ſo are Chriſts invitati- 
ons to. his feaſt; not one: man 1nall che world but he isinvited , 
Ho every one that thirſterh]' fo the Apoſtle, Jet him that is athir{t 
come, and whoſoever will, let him take the water of life freely, Rev, 
22. 17.” a thirſt, and awil) is one and the fame, it is your will chat 
makes vp the match , if you will but fit down at Gods table, if 
you wilt but have the hony comb with the hony, if-you will but 
drink his wine with his-milke, if you will drink, - yea drink abun- 
dantly of the faggons of the new wine of his'Kingdome, why 
thencome, come ye to thewaters ; come unto we and drink. Chriſts 
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hath ſo. much. fveetneſie and: dearenefle in ir, as-ic plainly 

ſpeaks: him free -and willing, to, receive you, if you will bur 
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3: The wooingsof Chriſt to-gaine your hearts ,, conſider .jam 

ing the heavers, and coming down, andiaying afide his robes 

of Majeſty, and: putting anyour- filthy garments ; conlider him 

going; about from: place to-place, on no other errand, but to 


- gaine your hedrts,and win your ſouls; -and- who ever ſpake ſuch 


cffeRtual words 1as Chriſt ſpake :when he was.upon. the carth ? 
who evergaveſuch precious-jemelsto a bride, as Chriſt gaveto 
his ſpouſe? /whoever put on ſuch apparel, as Chriſt did when he 
wooed his Church the Prophet wonders at it, who & thus that 
cometh from Edom ,with dyed garments from Bozrah ? —- wherefore 
art thon red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth 
in the wine fat? Iſa. 63:1; 2+ whoever gave ſuch a love-token, 
as Chriſt gave when he laid down-his life ? Oh confiderhim livin 
or dying, and ſay, vever like. love to 5his. Alt poore finner; fee 
our Jeſus hanging on the Crofſe, dropping out his laſt, blood, 
framing out-his-Jaſt breath, firetching out his dying armes to 
incircle ſinners, and come, - Oh come and. throw-your lelvesioto 


' his bleeding armes./ away with all prejudicate opiniohs! who 


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ſhall ſay, Chriſt is not willing co ſave him, and not blaſpheme 
eternal love? ſpeak truth , corrupt hearts ſpeak truth , ſay not 
Chriſt is unwilling, but you are unwilling ; 1 would, but ye wonld 
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4; The weepings.. of Chriſt if he cannot preyaile.. Thus we 
find him inthe Goſpel /'expreſling himſelfe, not only in words, 
but in teares. And when he was come near 7erx/alem, he beheld 
the City-and wept overit,. Lyke 19.41, Chriſt coming to the 
City and ſeeing it,and foreſceing the deſolation that ſhould come 
npon it, his bowels yearned within him. towards the people, .and 
he mourned fecretly; within bimſelfe,' 9. 4. O fer»/alem , thou 
baſt had many Prieſts to adviſe thee, and many Prophets to in- 
ru& theein the wayes of life, bat now: th ſe dayes 'are-gone 
and paſt;3vay, the great Prophet of the world 1s come to wooe 
thee, bur-yer-thy heart is hardened, andthou wilt,ot receive the 
things belonging 40 thy peace, . and therefore 1 will turne my 
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xJohn 5, 3» 0 keep bis commandments , and his commandments are not griev- 
Ram.8.2. os. . Andthe Jaw of the Spirit of life (hrift Feſvs hath made me 
Rom, 7-6. free from the law of (in and death. e4nd now are we delivered from 
the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we ſheuld ſerve 

5n newnelſe of Spirit, and not in the oldneſſt of the letter. Chriſt Jeſus 

came to break off from our necks thoſe two great yoakes, the one 

of fin, by which we were kept in fetters and priſons, the other of 

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2+" Chriſtian Religion bath lefſe trouble andlavery in it. than 
-*f1g,or any thing that is contrary to it, .as for inſtance ;, he that 
| ds to humſelfe to live.g low, a pious, an bumble and re- 
tiredlife, his maine employment is nothing bar ſicting religioufly 
quiet, andundifturbed with variety of impertinent affaires, bur 
. hethat loves theworld entertaines a thouſand buſineſſes, and 
, every buſineſle bath a world of employments : how eafie a thing 
' bitto reſtore a pledge ? butifa man meanes to deteate, orto 
cozen him that truſts tym, what a world of arts muſt he uſeco 
make pretences? as firſt to.delay, then to excuſe, then to 0bje&, 
then to-intricate the buſineſſe, then to quarrel; and all the way 
to palliate the crime, and to repreſent bimſelfe an honeſt mans. 
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be lay no way , Jins for the way 'of the Lord we (agve nut knows it. 

k > Cor. 3.17, Wicked menare in thraldome, but where the of the Lord i, 
.* there.i frerdome. O the paines; troubles, expences that men'are 

at to-ſcrve their ſenſualicy 1 ſee how rheambirious man. riſeth 

early, 'and goes to! bed late ; ſee how he flatters, diſſetnbles, 

ſokcirs to obtaine nothing bur a littlewind, a puffe, « breath of 

vaine mens mouths ! ſee how the covetous man toyles, 'as if he 

were tyed inaGally by the leggewith achaifie to ſerve by row: 

ing forever, ſol have heard,” that T »+kes uſe ſome Chriſtians , 

butthis isa'rhouſand times worſe ſervitude, for ſuch a one is in 
ſervitude to a more baſe creatire thina Txrke, and he lies bound 
hot. only- by the feer, but alſo by the hands, eares, eyes, heart, 
andall. Only the Chriſtianis at liberty; . only Chriſtian Religion 
and the: praciſe- of it ſets men at liberty; #f ye ronti- 
"0 | une in my Word ( faith Chriſt ) then-are ye my diſciples. in- 
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hard, hehath made ir lighr in aides. 1 ſhall ſhew the helps in 

OE 1. The holy Scriptures be our helps ; this was the very ſcope 


and aimefor which the ſacred volume was ſentfrom heaven, vx. 
that we might deciine from evil, atid do good; that wemiphe 


thou haſt the Scrip- 

tures, . but it may be thou canſt not reade, ' orthou canſt nor vn- 

derſtand the fenſs and meaning thereof ; Chriſt therefore for thy 
Eph, 4.12, help hath ſet upa miniſtry for the edifying of the body of Chriſt. 
Theſe are the watchmen over the houſe of 7/7aet to cry like 
trumpets, and to blazon the (ins of the houſe of 7/-4e!, theſe 
are the ſuitors of God and Chriſt to ſpeak+ out his good- 
will in thine eares, they call, they cry, they waite, they wooe, 
they pray you in Chriſts ſtead that you will be reconciled wnts 
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3. Thelives of Saints be our helps ; wehavenot only teachers 
in word, but the Saints in all ages, as ſo many ſtars, have f1Ven us 
light how to walke in the darkneſle of this life. The examples 
| of the godly are very drawing, and much for ourimitation, and 
Plako 37. 37. Therefore the Plaimiſt bids us, marks the perfet? man, and behold 

the zipright, for the end of that man 7s peace, Oitsa bleſſed help 
to a Chriſtian life toread over, much more to marke, and obſerve 
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aQiſc of Chriftian Religion there's a double reward, -- r,” The 

 rewardof duty,” 7» rhe' keeping of thy commandment? theyre ut great : 

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flames, thoſe remedileſſe torments, withont hope of recovery, - 
remiſſion, or mitigation ; when I think of that privation - and 
lofſe of the ſight of Gods face, prepared only for th6ſe that ſerve 
bit in bolineſſe, how ſhould] but look about me; and prepare 
for my -reckoning ? nay how eaſieſhonld I think any paines in 
compariſon? ſome perſons in affrightrment have been ſeen to 
carry burthens, and to leap ditches, and climbe walls, which 
their natural power could never have done, and ifwe underſtood , 
the ſadneſſe of a curſed eternity, from which we are cothmanded 
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fall into icif we contunue, in- fine, , it-would ; be.. able . $0 
create feares- greater than: a ladder fire. or a: mid-night: a- 


7. A principle of Tove (whereſoeverit is pla; d) is our help, 
bethe yoake never ſo uncaſie, | yet.love w.ll, makeit. light; Solo- 
mon compares: the eſtace of the,Church,to a-chariot,, and it is 
deſcribed to have. pilaraxt fuer and a bottome of gold, - and 4 co 


vering of purple, the midſt. thereof bring, paved with Jowe,, aftrange 
expreti A jor ſhould be oo . 


TENLLON, | atche mi charior | 1d be paved with love, 
but 'tis plaine, the chariot, wherein, Chriſt. earcics y people up 
and dowtin theworld, and. brings them. to himſelfe, is ſuch a 
chariot as'the midit,. thereof is paved, with-love y; in thiscaſe if 
there were neither heaven, nor hell, yet a ſoul would be inthe 
duties of Chriſtianity, Fremember how 7ve, Biſhop of Chartres, 
meeting 8 prove matron onthe. way with fire in one hand, and 
| water in the other, he asKed her what thoſe ſymboles meant ? 
* and what-ſhe meant. to do with her fire and water > ſheanſwered 
tny purpoſe i with the fige to burne Paradiſe,: and with the water to 
gaench the flames of kell, that men may ſerve Ged (ſaid ſbt) without 
the incentives of hope and feare, and purcly far the love of God, and 
feſww. Chriſt., Surely it was an, high expreſſion, for my part 1 
dare not ſeperate thoſe things which God hath, joyned together, 
only this] ſay, that where true loveis, there isan excellent help 
inovr way heaven-wards. Oe 2 
8. The Angells beour helps ; they are miniftring ſpirits, ſent 
Hcb, 1.14. forth t6 miniſter for thews. who ſhall be heires of ſalvation, Reb.1.14. 
and the kind of their miniſtration 1s. excellently ſet forth by the 
Pſalmiſt, chey ſhall keep. thee in all thy wayes, they ſhall beare thre 
#p in their hands, | leaſt thou daſh thy fort again#t a fine, Pſal*gt. 
. 14, 12, -inthis placethe Angelsare compared to nurſes that have 
a charge over, weak, children .to keep them and guard them, 
ſo-the Angels do., all the offices. of a nur{e,. or © mother , 
they - keep. us, guard. us, inſtru} us, - admoniſh, vs , correct 
us, comfort us, preſerve-us trom evil, and proyoke us to 
00d. 
: 9. The motions, inſpirations, bleſſed irfluences of the Spirit of 


Cant. 3, 10, 


© Chriſte our helps,” many a time the Spirit cries, and calls on 
Ea 30.21. our hearts, ſaying, this 15 the way walk: therety : 3s the evil ſpirit, £ 
| or deyil in wicked men iscontinually moying, and inclining them C 


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,. or enlivening ; 
or Heneing of our hearts uato 
e Spiritis' moſt-what, 


e Spies and as all cheſe are helps in the-wajes of A 
y thele helps and afliſtatice of Chriſt holy Spirit, ***5o 4+ 


.-10., The grace of God is our help, felingthe ſtrength 
Bhat! deliver me from this body of death? O 1 finde a law in my mens =p"2 det! 
the comfortab Eb Chriſt to Pax, * my grace us ſufficient 2 Cor. 12. 9. 


theſe things we are more than conguerors through him that loved ws; 03e 3:37 
the Pſalmiſt hath a notable expreſſion to this purpoſe; 1 will rux | 
the way of thy commandments, when thou [halt enlarge my heart; Pla. 119.31. 
this enlargement of heart was by the grace of God; grace is com- ph 
pared to oyle;as a dry purſeis ſoftned,and enlarged by anoynting 
i, with ole, ſo the heart drawn together by (in, 1s opened and en« 
larged by the powring of grace into it , & if grace be preſent then 
* faith Divid;1 will run the way) thy commandments, not watke;but 
rm; itisanalluſion to a cart wheele, which crieth © and com= 
plaineth under a ſmall burthen being dry, but when a little oyle 
is put into it, it runs, merriſy, and without noiſe ,, and if David 
could ſay thus in his time, how mbch more ſhould we that live 
in theſe Goſpel times, when grace in greater meaſure- is 
effuſed, and poured out ? by :he grace of Chriſt (ſhould we fay) 
we will walk?, and runne, and flv in the way of his commandments, 
Well then, is Chriſtan Religion andthe praiſe of it, full Uſe. 1. . # 
of (weetnzſſc, ealineſſe, and pleafantneſſe ? in the tirit place for n 
conviction, this may take away the cav:lls of fomemea, what 
is ſaid in way of objzion I ſhall reduce to theſe particulars: - 
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Spirit, and feetned by a principle of love, 0 how love I 


” Pal. £19. 97-" and ſweetned by a-principle of delight, hy law r« my delight. and 
37+ 5. 11. Gwectned with @promuſe ofreward,, in the keeping th c - 
1 "1 menti there is great reward, Ce dt, ofiy. $21 15 FN 
. 2, Theyobject, wetesle no ſuch ching;, youre] us of ee 
| _ neſle; eaſineſle, pleaſantnefle, - but if we mult ſpeak otit our own 
Mil. 1.13, xperiences, , 0h orhat 4 wearineſſe is it ? —when- will tht pew 
Amcs8.5, mueone be gone, that we may {ell carne ? andthe Sabbath, that we may 
> ſet forth wheat ?, we feele a ſweetneſſe in theſe preſent eajoyments 
of:the world, but as for holineſle, grace, Religion, the dilcipline 
of Chriſt,., we wonder where the ſweetneſfle is, we'can finde 
no ſuch ſecret golden mynes in theſe ſpiritual ;diggings. 
n:F-anſwer,, -3., This indeed is 46 pork of carnal and proptiine 
meh, they fegle no. ſ{weetneſſe, - caſine 
waies ;, the natural man receivetÞ mt the thisgs of the Spirit of God, 
for they are fooliſhneſſe unto him, neither can he know them, becauſe 
they are; ſpiritually diſcerned : but he that 1s fpiritual judgeth or 
difcerneth all things,  Poore ſouls! till God peak to your hearts 
you-canpot underſtand this hidden Manna? It is obſerved that 
God never ſent the pleaſant Manna untg'7/ae/ ſo long as their 
flower and. bread of Zgypr laſted, ſo never will you taft 
how good the Lordis, ſo long as you doat on finne and 
vanity. 

2. Though you feele not theſe things for the preſent, yer in 
time you may do, yea certainly it you belong to God, in time 
you will do; Oh but when? you will ſay, when? Ianſwer, the 

firſt 


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changs As, ; 

'1. A diſcovery of the beauty of holineſſe ; when God brit 
effeQually calls the ſoul home to himmſelfe, he ſers open the beauty 
of his ſeryicey maturally the + heart is poſſefſed with muck/pre- 
judice againſt the wayes of Religion, Oh what aftri& rule is 
chisto-carnal men; to pull our their right-eyes, tocut off their 

. right hands; co hare ; and mother, and wife, and lands, and . 
lifeforche Name of Chriſt, to croſſe their own defires, 'to deny 
their own ſelves, to mortifie their earthly members, *to follow the 
Lambthrough evil report and good report, t haflitions, 
snd perſecutions, and manifold temptations whither ſoever be 
h, to war with principalities, and powers, and ſpititual wick 
edneſſes in high places ? and hence it is that the Lord'is forc't to 
fet forth the wayes of C hriſt as beautiful, Even under crofles and 
iMiRions; thus when the watchmen  ſmote the Church, and 
wounded her, andtook away her vayle, yet ſhe till - acknow- 
tedged Chriſt (for whoſe ſake ſhe ſuffered) ro be white aud rnddy, 
the faireſt of ren thouſands. Chriſt ſets forth himſelfe and his ; 
wayesin all che grace, and'goodneſſe and beauty, and*ſweetneſfe, ©#* 5+ 7210» 
and lovelineſs that poſſibly may be, 4. 47 by theſe I wilt allure 
them thar bel onto me.. - 

2. An out-bidding of all the temptations of other lovers ; be- 
fore Chriſt come, foyls go 4 whoring from Chriſt, their hearts 
ave allured by other lovers}, -cheworld, the fleſh, and devitcome 
in, and they proffer ſou's fuch and ſuch contentments , bur when 

. Chriſt comes, he deales with ſoulsin a more powerful: way, and 
he out- bids all their former lovers, 4. 4 did their tovers proffer 
them comfort ? I will bid more comfort , cid their lovers proffer 
gaine? Iwillbid moregaine; did their lovers' proffer bongur! 
and reſpeR ? I will out-bid them inthat alſo, And indeed, ther 

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altrhatthe world-can bidis now our-bidden, you 
_ 6ne comes to offer fo much for a commodity, 


the Goſpels true, -and full, - and grac 


heart, when it yields to the proffers 


-out-: 
bids him, be carriesit away; ſo whenthe world, - and luſt, and. © 
fit proffers to the ſoul ſuch and fuch'contents, then comes Chrift 


and out-bidsall,- and fo the bargaine is made ap;,+and Chrif 


carriesthe heartaway ; ſinners! it maybe as'yet' you ſeele none 
of theſe things, but in time you may do, and'in the ' meane 


_ rime you ſee here is a word for it, behold 1 will allure 


hier, ec. | a” | bb 

3 They obje&, the Saints themſelves feeleno ſach things, for 
aught appeares to the world; "whoſe ſpirits are more heavy and 
fa > asit is ſaid of Chriſt himſelfe chat he never laughed. and as 


David ſaid of himfelfe, why art thew caſt drwn O my ſoul, and why 


art thow diſqmeted within me ? (0 it may be ſaid of ſome @hrifſti- 
ans, if axp ſtrict, that they are ſeldome merry, or plea- 


- ButI anſwer — 1, ' Chriſtians ' that keep indeed clofe to the 
rule, -are for the moſt part ſerious, - andthe world may ſuppoſe 
them,as fad. Foy 

' 2. It may be they are not in their element, ' in the aftsofRe- 
ligion, and therefore they cannotexpreſle their ſpiritual cheerful- 
nefſe ,- a fiſh cannot delightit fſelfe on the earth, but when iris 
inthe water, a bird doth not ſing on the ground, but whenit _ 
is got upintotheayre , Gods people cannot rejoyce in ſin, 'as 
drunkardsand revellers do, but when their hearts are in Religious 
exerciſes, ' 4nd in communion with God, they are merry and 
pleaſant. 


3. It may be they are in ſuch-company as may make them ſad : 
the men of the-world obje& againſt Saints, that they are heayy, 
and ſoure, and melancholy men, butin the mean time they con- 
ſider not that their ſwearing, revelling, and diſhonouring of God 
hath made them ſo penſive. Why finners !. your carriage grieves 
the very Spirit of God, you grieve God at the heart, as it isex- 
preſſed, Gen, 6 6. and therefore no wonder if the godly' cannot 
rejoyce in your ſinful ſociety , youare the cauſe of their ſadnels , 
but admit them once into the company and fellowſhip of the 
Saints, and they know. how to be joyful, 

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_ 4.-Ifir beſo that uſually they are penſiveand fad, it is not be- 
cauſe of Religion, han Lone are not more Religious ; be” 
cauſe heyſane fo mud want of godlineſle \in their own hearts ; 
this was the cauſe of Pax/7 heavinels, Ob wretched man that 1 ans 
who ſball deliver me from this body of death ? and-yet know, that 
all theſe ſadneſſes are true preparatives to joy; and therefore in 
the very next words, -the _ breaks out into that ſweer + 5... 
doxolopy, 7 thank God through Jeſus (rift our Lord. Never was ©. py 
true ſorrow for fin, but it ended in rejoycings and praiſes, and —=®* > 
chankſgiving to God. | 
- Why then be convinced, ah deceived ſouls ! fay not that 
God is an hard Maſter, reaping where he ſowed not, and gather- 
ing where he ſtrawednot, ſay noc that his wayes, are tedious, 
and irkſome,and uncomfortable wayes; but rather tafte,and ſee, 
and try how good the Lordis, experience” the'truth_ of theſe 
words, my yoake is eafie, and my burthen 1s light , what is lighter 
than that en; Which inſtead of burthening, chears up the 
party on which itis laid ? juſt like thoſe. burthens of Cinnames. 
- thatrefreſhthoſe that carry them throogh the deep ſands of 
Arabia. An holy divine once endeavouring to convince men of 
the ſweetneſſe and pleaſantneſſe of Gods wayes by his own ex- 
periences, [call heaven and earth to record (faith he) that theſe 
things are truths of God ;, they are not notions, or conceits, but cer- 
taine-realities : Another flies ſomewhat higher, 5f men would in 
earneft (ſayes he) abandon the devils ſervice, and give up their 
names to Chriſt in truth;, and try, I dare aſſure them in the Word of 
life and truth, they would mr exchange the [add:ft houre of all their 
life afterward, with the prime and flower of all their former ſenſnal 
pleaſures, might they have ten thouſand worlds to boote , bey waies are < 
waies of pR__ ſaith Solomon, Prov. 2 17s 
2. Youthat are ſo convinc't, I beſeech you carry on the work Uſe. 2. 
of God ſweetly, comfortably, and with delight : the Palmift 
ſayes, bleſſed is the man that delights in the law of the Lord, And Plal. x: 1, 2. 
bleſſed are the undefiled in the way who walk chearfully in the law of Py, ; 19. 1, 
the Lord. And bleſſed is the man that delighteth greatly in by law. | 
. Andit was written upon the heart of Chritt, 7 del/sght to do thy will Þſal. 40: 8; 
0 my God, yea thy law is within my h:art , as God loves a chear-. , 
ful giver, ſo a chearful ſerver, come take my yoake wpon you, faith 
Chrift, for wy yoakg is eafie;, it is not an Iron yoake of bon- 
Mmm cage, 


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i "Wat, the prad:le of piety,. and. of Religion pleaſantly ? 1 
SIUER ids tha an ht anna nben niod wh iecked Dc. . 

Anſ. _ 1. Beſureto keep the Deare mat aa apright within , let all 


tHE-SQL hap people, . and to be 
the Comfortor of bis people. 1. The holy Ghoſt is defigned to 


a  Abuliry Reppeth 1 
burthen that lyeth, vpon, weak ſhoul . why, this makes | 
Chriſts burthen light, we do not beare all the weight, for the , 
de- 

Joh. r4. 26, ſigned to comfort his people. Chrift calls him the Spirit, rhe 
| andz5. 26, Comfortor , becauſe he brings in a kind of ſpiritual joy, and {piri- 


' littlemeate, or drink, ' or creature-vanity; but the other comes f 
from ihe exerciſe of faith, about the office of the holy Ghoſt, who , 
is deſigned to this work? ſurely hereis - he way to carry on duty 
ſweetly,and comfortably,andwith delight{;.)to be in the exerciſe eh 
of faith on.the work and'office of the holy Ghoſt, as he is our Pp 

1 Pet- 2.9 helper and Comfortor, 1 Per. 2. 9. it 
3. Underſtand whatisin Chriſtian Religion, andin the pra- - 
Riſe of it to cauſedehght. As ——— be 
1. In every duty and gracious ating of it, there is more of the 
glory of God. thaniq zhe whole frame of heaven, and earth be- G 
fides ; hercin i 15 Farber glarifced that you beare much fruit, Joh. ; 
15.8. Oh if we but thus lacked at the profeſſion, and practiſe 5 
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But How ſhould pi know the difference - ' berwixethe ! 
pleaſantneſs, and chis ſpiritual pleaſantneſſe in Religion ?: 


Crone __ upon | upos chemaggecl, God by ».opoy 


; bur becauſe we 
ſhaks a pd merry ab ofa neture!, where- 
in tyesthe difference? Tanfwer — As/. 
__ 1, Ifitbeafl itual pleafacitnefſe, ItwilF be feridud; Theve Ecaleſi4, 2.5 
reds ig bter it 1 mad, ind of wirth white doth it ? there is much 
tneſle and vanity'in ſach'breakings out of ' natural pleaſant- 
gh be i pleaantoeſ ical all1s grave, and ſober, and ex- 
ceeding ſerious. 
2. Ifit bea ſpiritual pleaſancneſſe; it can ſtand with repen- 
tance, and humiliation, and che ro of God, rjoyce with tres. Plale 2, x0.” 
bling, ' aich the Palmilt, + may conſiſt with = 
trembling : and bleſſed i, F- the man Ty feareth the Lord, that de- ** "IA Js 
lighteth greatly in his commandments ; the feare of God may con- 
ſift wi theſe ſpiritual delights in the commandments of 


God. 


3: Fficbe ſpiritual pleaſantnefſe, it is our. ſtrength , the joy of Nebe. 8, no," * 


the Lord is our ſtrength, faith Nehemiah , nothing animates ſouls 
more in duties than joy doth, it carrieson the ſoul more fully : 
itisas oyle that caufeth the 'wheeles of Chriſtian practifeto go 
on more freely : we may be naturally pleaſant, aw 
ing to ſpiritual duties our hearts are dead, but if ourpley 
— 7m our hearts will be frengthned in 


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ome, neithyr ſhall fruit be im the vines, the laboxr of the olive 

ſoall ma and the ITY eeld no vin th SY cue 
fromabe fold, and there foal "aa berd inthe 5s a Jet] will rej 
bn Yoo Lord, I will joy in the Gedof my ſaluation. When ge 

darke-abroad inthe world, the foul in this frame will rejoyce in 

Godalone ; on the contrary, - the foal chat bath ovly a nacural 

of Spirit, when aMiction comes, it isall amort, and 

_ n av] appeals $o.y0n chat, have the je moſt. del ghrful ghrful ſpiries, 

ve friends, and meancs, m6 like, you are 

ja pot ph but when aMiction.comes, how quickly are 

your ſpirits down? ſurely your pleaſantneſſe. is not ſpiri- 

yoal, for if ſo, it would-beare up your. hearts joyful in af- 


Ags.o now the Paſſeover, 4 afeaf o the Zewes 1 ws nigh : 
iſh Annotations on words can tell us that 
this zems to be * the third Paſſeover after Chriſts bapriſme. 
d therefore here 1 conclude the third yeare of Chriſts 
,. there is but one yeare more before Chriſts 
death, to. which cow 1 come, and to ſome paſſages 
therein , moſt obſervable in reference to our ſouls fal- 


vation. 


Sudubb ba bbubuts eSaeSaeTae$aefs 


CHAP;IV. Szct. L L V7 A; 


Lara — 
£ ad the fourth yeare of Chrifts miniſtry, and generally my 


bi attings in that. yeare. \ 
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His was the laſt yeare of Chriſts miniſtry z which 
were thouſands of paſſages : The Evangeliſt pou 
Yo relates more of Chriſt this yeare than in all the 
2X; former; andif I ftudied not brevity, we might 
Bg dwell more on his aQings for us this yeare, than 
hitherro we have done from the | beginning of his 
wiailiy ; NOW itwas that hve 6 apEguredy now it was that 


0ow it was, that after Sermon : 
for them, andthen having. 
moune of olives, wherein a garden he began ings, 
theſe paſſages I had chought to have enlarged, butI ſee 


ings, I ſhall only touch one point, - which hicherto1 have 
preternutced, andis the moſt comprehenſive of any paſſage I can 


- touch, Þ. ” 
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light of his glory 
- within > Oh this argues the witneſſe of Chriſts Spirit ! this only 
theexperimental Chriſtian feeles, Chry/oftome ſometimes ſpeak- 
ing of the more hidden, and Choyce principles-of Chriſtianity, he 
ſeth this phraze, Scinnt initjati quid dico, thoſe that are initiated 
or admitted into our myſteries, know what 1 meane : fo may the 
Miaiſters of Chriſt preaching of theſe inward manifeſtations, ſay, 
Sciunt initiati, &c, it is only the ſpiritual man - can know theſe 
things, for theyare ſpiricually diſcerned. O'my ſoul, meditate 
on this until thou feeleſt Gods Spirit working in thy ſpirit theſe 
inward gracious, glorious, manifeſtations. 7: is Chri# in thee 1s 
the hope of glory. 
5. Conlider Chriſts whipping the buyers and ſellers out of the 
Temple. Sometimes O my ſoul thou art in ſecret, and ſome- 
times thou art in the aſſemblies of Gods people; and if thou art 
in duty, whereſoover thou art, conſider the eſpecial preſence of 
C hriſt 3 


By RTE Spirit, 3nd the 
 Prefen 2. The pri 9 $-mgpner This we 
in,us | axgonth e Spirit doth not only 
a ry ng 
| ng , melting; 

ik, fig, h is manner \ Meera. when we Pre igt-4 

ſheer oe ny © he (Lee) paged triumph -in the 
race ly, now is he in his charior, _inbis throne, in 

tipped therefore away, away with all s 

od flees out of Temple of the  boly Ghoſt, —2, The 

ey Chriſt is the preſence of his Angels ; as a Kiog is 


where his Courtis, ſo is Chriſt the Ki of Kees eſpeciall 
ſent where his bleſſed Angels pitch cher obs And mito 
deration. 


wot ( on ſoul 
ron ef charbare vea work to do upon 


thy Caper man, 1 grant os Spirit of Chriſt ' canonly enlighten 
che underſtanding ng, and determine . the will effeually, it is he 
wy can bend, and turne, 'and forme the mind which way foeyer 
he plac, bur the An agels can ſpeak alſo to thy ſpiritual parts, 

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power with it, 

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can ſpeak to us, and how we may. know when they ſpeak, 
and. how ..we may diſcerne whar is ſpoken. by the immediate 
re ag 'of the Spirit, , and what by the. mediation of the 
Angels 

7 How do the Angels ſpeak to us? we, muſt conceive if we 
underſtand this, firſt that the images, or phantaſms of thi 
received by the outward ſenſes ;, are kept and preſcryed by the 
inward ſenſes, as the Fecies of ſounds, of ſhapes, or whatſoever 
elſe. 2. That the images or phantaſmes ſo kept, may be ſo 
moved by our ſpirits, or humors, or ſome extrinſec4l things, as 
that they may move the fancy, and provoke it torepreſent, 4. 
conceive ſuch things as neither appeare, nor are at __ time 
perceived by any outward fenſe atall.. This appeares, ſn 
ourordinary courſe, aswe can fit, inthe dark, where we doare 
and ſee nothing, and yet there we can multiply a fancy in 
infinitum, by an a& of our own will. 2; This appearesia our 
dreames, when though we heare or = nothing, - yet the humour 

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can ſtir up the memory of things, and provoke our faricies to the 
apprehenſion of this or that. 3. This appeares alſo in ſickneſſe, 
which alterihg the body, and the humours, "and ſo troubling the 
fancy, it begets ſtranſe fancies, and makes dreadful and fearful 
repteſt tions into us : now this we muſt know; that whatſo- 
ever aninferiour power can do, that a ſaperiour power can do 
thuch more ; whatſoever ana@'of our own will, or natural 
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tween the converſe of men and Angelss mencan ſpeak to onr 
vnderſtanditigs by the mediation of our external but 
Ahgels po i nearer way to work end ſpexk tothe internals fir 
of all : Nays tio more but comme into the memory [the trea- 
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is an hard queſtion, and eafily it cannor befolved , only ſome 
TonjeQure we thay have ; 'asin a caſe ofevil, thou art ina'wa 
"of fin, and nearetofall inreJr, it may be on a fudden chou heareſ 
within the ſomecontrary ings, which alſo are abovethe 
| ings of a natural cofiicrence, common to the wicked ; or 
xn a fudden thou heareſt within thee 
peryarural: perſwaſions, ' and reaſbningsto 


confeRurallythink, thamtheſe whiſperingsor motions re of the 
'Atigets of God. Boddin'tellsa ſtory of one who'defired of God 
A puicance, and aſliftance ofan Angel , and accordingly he had 


=. - Fenſible manifeſtations ofa ſpirit that aſliſted him, and followed 
© Hitn till his death, if inc y he ſpake any unwary words, he 
was ſure to headrertifed, and reproved for it by a dreame inthe 
"*vigbt or if He read any book'that was not, good, the Angel would 


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che communicated to our inward man (I meane thoſe in- 
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originally and primarily from the Spirit of Chriſt; and hence ic is 
| that commonly we put them all on that ſcore, -we give them all 


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way ſpeak and move us to our duties, but robopagy the effic- 
cy ls of the Spirit ; and in this reſpet we leave to Chriſt and his | 

Spirit the a// in all. Well then, O my ſoul, conſider (eſpecially =>, 
- in Church-aſſemblies, andin the enjoyment of ordinances) the > ,..” _ * 


eſpecial-preſence of Chriſt, in the preſence of his Spirit, and in \:\ . 
the oe} 2þ7 of his Angels : what ? doſtrhou feele any ſtirrings, Ng 92 4.7 


aRings, movings in thy ſpirit > doſt thou feele any quickening, . 
warming, feeding, cheriſhing, healing, moliing, meking, com- 

forting, ſtrengrhoing inchy inward parts? ſay then, /arely the 5,6 Ge, 
Lord is in this place, ——this is none other byt the houſe of Ged, this is NY 94 
the gate of heaven.  O hereis the Spirit, and here are the Angels 
aſcending, and deſtending ; and therefore avoyd Sathangt avoyd 
all prophane thoughts, and eafthly-mindedneſle ! avoyddulnels, 
deadnefle, drouſineſſe / avoyd looſeneſle, laciviouſneſſe,” and all 27a 


irreverence, hecamſe of the ,-and detauſe of the Spin 
and becauſe of the eſpecial priyer e of Chrilf which includes em- 7 
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taine oderiferous lillies,, that caſt forth a ſweet ſmelling ſavour , 
they were full of heavenly grace and ſweetneſle, Grace, ſaith the 

þ- | Plalmiſt, was poured into bys lips, and they dropped [weer-ſmelling 

F> > Plal. 45.2: wyrrhe , the nature of this herbe is to keep from pucrifaction, as 

_*_ ,, it is ſoundit ſelfe, ſoit makes other things ſound, erroris of a 

| [Arne nature, corrupting, and defiling the foul, but the do. 


rineof Chriſt keeps the ſoul ſound , it is the ſouls preſeryative, 
it keeps the ſoul free from all corruption and defilement. See 
'here the prophetical office of Chriſt held forth in ſimilitudes, his 
lips were ever dropping, diſtilling, publiſhing ſweet and ſound 
truths

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them, that thy profiting... may  appeare 
toa”. 00 7. Con- 


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ter to runover, ſuch miracles were done by Chriſt as never man. 
did before. «< Moſes indeed [mote the rock, and the waters guſhed: 
out, bur he could not turne that water into wine; Ele raiſed a 
child that was dead, to life, but Jeſus raiſed one who-had been. 
dead foure dayes, yea who'was buried 'and corrupted :- Elias and 
Samaecl, and all the Prophets, and che ſucceſſion of the high 
Prieſts in both the Temples, pur all cogether, never did ſo many, 
and ſo great miracles as Jeſus did : he turned water into wine ;. 
he healed the Noble-mans ſonne even at the point of death, he 
cured the leprous by his touch, he made the lame man co walk, 
and the crooked limms to become ftreight, he made habitual di. 
ſcaſes, and inveterate,of eighteen yeares continuance (and once 
of thirty eight years) ro diſappeare at his ſpeaking, even as dark- 
neſſe at the brighrneſſe of the Sun ; he fed thouſands of people 
with two ſmall fiſhes, and five loaves; he caft out devils, and” 
commanded therm whither ſoever he pleaſed , he reſtored fight 
 totheblind, in a word he did ſuch miracles as no man elſe ever 
did; and thepoore blind man proved it by inſtance” of himſelfe. 
It was never heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne John 9. 23; 
blind. O my ſoul conſider of theſe miracles, and beleeve that 
docrine

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| Nicephl.c.40 P19 the Apoſtle from France to Brittaine, and here remained is 
— is Land all his time. Nicephorus adds that Simon Zelotes did 
ſpread the Geſpel of Chrift to the weſt ocean, and brought the ſame 
into the Iſlet of Brittaine. Howſoever it was brought hither, of 
this weare ſure, that Chriſt was firſt diſcovered to his Apotites 
and from the Apoſtles was diſcoveredto our fore Fathers, and 
fromehemunto us, and from us will be the diſcovery to others 
ro the end of the wortd. O the goodnefſe of God in Chrift ! 
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of good will towards thee ? 
| x Tio: 3. 16- furely this is one of the great myſteries of godlineſſe, God manifeſted 
| in the fleſs, juſtified in the Spirir, ſeen of Angels, preached unty the 
Lakes what ? that ſinners, and the worſt of —_ ſhould 


wrath thoulc bethe ſubjeRt of this great - dy Oo 

AR og v7 my eAprſtles "into all the Nations of the 

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, oo here” i: ſftery of Chriſt, there preach 

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whom ſhall live ſuch and ſuch men, ſuch and Pat a (and. 
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and relations) fo $9-tyye patgbany 3" > 1 and, it foalbepc <2 
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devils, if they had but 

ce to ſee his beauty , yea, he would tread captive all hearts in 

ell, if they had but eyes to. behold his Jovelineſſe. O what a 
flower ? what aroſe of love and light is the Lord Jeſus Chritt ? 
my beloved ts white and ruday, faid the Spouſe, tbe Fuſe of tem 
thouſand. Summon before Chriſt, faire Angels,plorited ſpirits, 
the azure heavens, the light{ome ſtarres,all the delicious flowers, 
gardens, meadows, forreſts, ſeas, monntaines, birds, beafts, yea 
and all the ſons of men, as they ſhould have been in the world of 
* innocency, and let chem all ſtind in their higheſt excellency before 
Jeſus Chriſt, and what arechey ? the Saints in glory now ſee the 
face of Chriſt (5. ) they ſee alſthe dignity, beauty, thatis in 
Chriſt, and chey are ſo taken with his inght, that they do-nothing 
elſe but fare, and gaze, and behold his face for ages, and yer they 
are hever ſatisfied with beholding; ſuppoſe they could weare one 
their eyes at the eye-holes in beholding Chrift, they (hold till 
deſireto ſee more. O thislovelineſſe

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the law or power in fin. 
I canhot think, notwithſtanding the influence of Chriſts life on 
me, but that ſin ſtill tickerh in me, I am ill a ſinner inreſpeR of 
the inherency of fin, but 1 am freed from the power of in, (+.) 
from the guilt of ſin asto its condemning power, and from the 
filth of (in as to its ruling reigning power : /e: not finne reigne 
in your mortal bodies , that ye ſhould obey it in the” buſts 
thereof. : 

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preſfions, concerning the {ins of Gods own people, though they 


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a Tyrant over them, not asa King , at ſometimes. (a$sin Davids 
caſe )) the will and conſent may run along with '{in, no aftual 
reſiſtance may be made againſt fin atall; and yet at they 

ſame time, the ſeed of God remainethin them, though it ſeem dead; 
andin Gods good time, that very ſeed will reviveagaine, and 
throw out the Tyrant, there is not, cannot be that antecedent 
and conſequent conſent to fin in the godly, asin the wicked ; O 
my ſoul conſider this / if the vertue of Chriſts life come in,/it will 
take don that ſoveraigne nigh raigne of fin which the"wicked 
ſuffer, and will not ſtrive againſt, the fleſh indeed may ſometimes 
luſt againſt the ſpirit, but it ſhall not totally prevaile, or. get 
the upper hand, fi» ſhall not have dominion over you, Sin may 
tyrannizeitin me fora time, but it ſhall not Kingitin me: look 
to-this-! doth the power and dominion of Chriſts life throw oat 


- of thy heart and lite that Kingly power and dominion of my

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one ground of hope. | | 
-. '2, 1f Chrifts life be mine, then ſhall I walk, even as he walked: 
ſuch is the efficacy of Chriſts life, that.it will work ſuitableneſſe, 
and make our | fe in fore ſort like his life. "The Apoſtle obſerves 
that'our communion with Chriſt works on our very converſati- 
ons; he that abideth in him, walkers even as he walked: and"to 
this purpoſe are all 'thoſe holy admonitions, walk in love, as 
Chriſt alſo loved us. and 7 have given you an example, that 
Jou fhonld d9' as I have done unto you. and, as he which hath 
called yen ts holy, ſo be ye holy in all manner of converſation.” "Then 
is Chriſts life mine, when my actions refer to. him as my'-copy , 
when I cranſcribe the original of Chrilts life, (as it were) to the 
life. Alas what am I better to obſerve inthe life of Chriſt his 
charity to his enemies, his reprehenſtons of the Scribes and Pha- 
riſees, bis ſubordination to his heavenly Father, his ingenuiry to- 
wards all men, his effultons of love towards all ti e Saints, if there 
beno likeneſle of alEthisin my own ations ? The life of Jeſus is 
not deſcribed to be like a pifture in a chamber of pleaſure, only 
for beauty and entertainment of the eye, bur like the Egyptiat: 
byrogliphicks, whoſe very feature is a precept, whoſe images con- 
verſe with men by ſenſe, and fignification of excellent diſcourſes; 
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of i, Chriſt isC peice, the moſt excellent deviſe, 
and work, and frame of. heaven\that ever was, or ever ſhall be, 
now Chriſt bejng the top-excellency of all, he is moſt fit to be the 
patterne of all excellencies whatſoever, and therefore he is the 
image, the Idea, thepatterne, the plat: forme of all our ſanifica- 
tion. Comethen O my ſoul, ook wnto Feſw, and look into thy 
ſelfe, yea look and look, -till thou art more transformed into his 
likeneſſe; isit ſo/that thou art changed into the ſame image with 
Ehriſt > look into bis diſpoſition as it is ſet forth in the Goſpel 
look into his carriage-; look into his converſation at home a 
abroade, and then refleQing on thy ſelfe, look there, and tell me, 
canſt thou finde in thy ſelfe a diſpoſition ſuitable to his diſpoſi- 
tion, a carriage ſuitable to his carriage, a converſation ſuitable to 
his converſation? art thou every way like him in thy meaſure, 
in Goſpel allowance, in ſome ſweer reſemblance ? why then, 
here's another ground of hope , O rejoyce init, and bleſſe God 
for it, 

3. If Chriſts life be mine, then ſhall I admire, adore, beleceve, 
and obey this Chriſt. All theſe were the cffes of thoſe ſeveral 
paſſages in Chriſts life, reſpeRively, 1. They admire at his 
dodrine and miracles, for his doQrine, al bare hin witneſſe, and 
wondered at thaſe gracious words which proceeded ont of his mouth: & Luke 4. 22, | 
for his miracles, they wondered, and they glorified the God, the God auh, 15. 3& 
of 1ſrael ,, yea ſometimes their admiration was ſo great, chat they 0 - 
were ſore amazed in themſelves beyond meaſure, and wondered. — Luke 9. BY 
they were amazedat the mighty power of God, aud they wondred every 
one at all things which Feſwrdid, 2. And as they admired, ſo they 
adored, there came 4 leper and wor ſhipped him, ſaying, if thou wilt yg , ' 
thou canſt make me cleane : and there came a Ruler, and worſhip- 
ed him, ſaying, my daughter i even now dead, come lay thine hand 
on her,and ſpe ſhall I've; and they that werein the ſhip came , and Math. g. 18. 
wor ſhipped, ſaying, of a truth thou art the Son of God, Thevery Maith, 14+33« 
worſhipping of Chriſt confeſſerth thus much, that he is the Sonne 
of God. 3. Andas they adored, fo they beleeved , 5f thou can 
beleeve ' ſaid Chriſt to the father of the poſſeſſed child) all things Mar: % 25, 24 
are poſſible to him that beleeveth ,, and fbraight way hecryed out, and 

ſaia with teares, Lord Ibeleeve, help thow my wnbelief. And when 
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Chriſt, the Sonxe of the living Godt ' not worſhipping of 
Chl: but beleeving in Cha 15 & right ack that 
Chriſt is God. 4. And asthey beleeved; ſo they obeyed ; yr have 
Rome 6.17. gbeyed from the beart (laid Panito his Romans) that forme of do 
Ht nor C of Cir, Alwiars harthey i afoniftten 
h Chriſt, folbwme, but left ail towed 
him: and no fooner famer and Foby 'heard the: ſame rr 
March, o o  Chtiſt, follow ave, but they left a# aud followed bins; and ng 
John 8, 31, --regnwen, tv. at the recrite of caftome, beard that voyee of ( hrift 
follow me, but he roſe and follawed bim. Why, they are ye my diſes- 
ples indeed, (ſard Chriſt to the beleeving Jewes). f #9 negeen 
17 Word. Comethen, put thy fetfe O'my foul, totherteſt;, thou 
beprife of Clint, che fuog'of Check, che remptaives of 
Oo . . | 5 remptations of 
Chriſt, the manifeſtations of Chrift, the doctrine of Chriſt, the 
miracles of Chriſt, the holinefle of Chriſt ; andis this the ifſue 
ofail> deſt thonnow leginto admire, andadove, and beleeve, 
and to 0 this {brilt? 'is thy heart warmed Þ thy affeRtions 
kindied ? Forb; tells us that the Word of God hath three degrees 
of operatienin the hearts of bis choſen, firft it falleth romexs ear; 
#s the ſound of many waters, a mighty great, and confuſed found, 
and which commonly brings neither terror nor joy, but yot a wondering 
md acknowledgement of a ftrange force, and mare than humane power, 
this is that effeft which many felt hearing Chrift, when they were 
b Mat.1.22,27 aftomſhed at bus doftrine, as teaching with anthority , what manner 
of doftrine is this ? never may # like this man : the next 
Luke 4. 32, # the woyce of thunder, which bringeth nat only wonder, rolk. La 
i alſo ,, mt only filleth the rares with found, and the heart with aftoni/h. 
John7. 46. ment, but moreover ſbaketh and terrifieth the conſcience : the third 
effeft i; the ſound of barping, while the word not only raviſueth with 
| admiration, and ftriketh the conſcience with terroar, but alſo laſtly 
filleth it with ſweet peace and'joy. In the preſent caſe give me 
leave toaske ;, O'my foul, art thou ſtruck intoa maze at the 
mighty miracles, and diyine doctrine of Jeſus {*hriſt > doſt thou 
fall down and worſhip him'as thy. Lord and thy God? doſt thou 
belceve in him, and w. Ca on him for life and faivetion ? doſt thou 


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' world, I live according co the will of God, and not after 
my own luſt, and fancy; or (as ſome would have it ) Hive under 
grace,and not under the law, q.4.- Sometimes 1 lived wholly under 
the law, which made me a 2 x4 of the $5 hurch f God, which 
no in we all manner 0 Envapeence, and flew me, and then I 
my ſelfe to be dead jn fin, but now I have 4 Chrift, 
and I aw no more the man 1 was : now ] feele Chrift quickening, 
dls guiding , and ſtrengthening me by hu Spirit, now 1 live ſpirt- 
fually and bolily , not of my ſelfe, but from another , The very 
whole of Chriſtians is from Chriſt, Chriſt is both fountaine 
filling, and life-quickening, 7 /ive, yer mt 1, but Chrift liveth in 
we. Chriſts life bath an nfloence, infuſion, tranſmiſſion into 
our ſelyes in reference to ſpiritual life: look as the heavens by an 
influenceinto the earth do quicken and enliven the earth, and 
make all the ſeeds and roots hidden in the earth to revive and pur 
forth themſelves, fo there is an influence that goes forth from 
the Sun of righteouſneſſe into the ſouls of men, reviving and 
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Chriſt is, or does for it ſelfe. - To 
ponder Chriſts aRions during his life, and the influence of his 
ations to all chat are his, what is this to me unleſſe I beleeve my 
own part in all this? 0b 7 dare not beleeve { cryes many a poore- 
ſoul) # it credible that Feſus Chriſt the Soune of God, . the bright 
welſe of his Fathers glory, the expreſſe image of his Fatbers perſon, 
fhouldbe incarnate for me, and leade ſuch a life upon earth fir my 
foul? what ? robe baptized, tobe tempted, to manifeſt himſelfe in 
the forme of man, to whip the buyers and ſellers ont of his Temple, ts 
preacy up and down the Gofpel of the Kingdome, to work miracles 
among men, to ſend abroad his Ap1fles with a cimmiſſion to preach, 
toinvite ſinners, to caſe the burthen of duties, andin 4 word to pub- 
ſp the righteowſneſſe of his natureand life,and all this, &- a thouſand 
times more than all this for my ſoul ? O what am 1? or what ts my 
Fathers houſe ? if God ſh:uld let me live one yeare in heaven, it were 
imfinite mercy ; but that the God of heaven ſhould live ſo many years 
on earth, and that all that while be ſpould empty bimſelfe, in watch- 
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Ged, but he reſts not there, beleeve alſo iri me, make me the obje& 
of your truft and ſalvation, as well as the Father, belceve alſo in 
we; nor only ſo, but beleeve in the firſt place on me; one 
fweecly oblerves, that when faith and repentance came more 
narrowly to be diſtinguiſhed by their more immddiate objects, 


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both bu: that Chriſt is more immediately the obje@Rof faith, 
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and 
. worth upon what thou doſt, andartainelt to, Thirdly, to make 
Chriſts righteoufneffe thy own, that thou mayſt ſay with the 
Pfalmiſt in way of affarance, 0 God my righteonſneſſe. 'O my ſoul, 
if thou wouldſt thus live by faith, or thus a& thy faith on Chriſts 
life, Chriſts righteouſtiefſe, Chriſts aRive obedience; what a 
bleſſed life wouldſt thou live > then mighteſt thou finde and feele 
Chrifts righreouſneſle thy righteouſneſle , I ſay ty righreon[aeſſe 
in reſpe> of its efficacy, but not in reſpe& of 1ts formality, for 
ſo ſinners wou'd be their own Mediatours, But of ſome of theſe 
particulars I ſhall ſpeak morelargely in our conformity to Chriſts 
holy life. 
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- com ive, it i holineſle, and happineſſ 


be ſuſpeRed, that the erue reaſon wh ro much is faid of his 
death, and ſo little in compariſon of his life, it is either becauſe 
we underſtand not the fulneſſe ofhis life, or becauſe weare carnal, 
and felfiſh, affeRing freedome from hell, more than holineſle on 


earth, ſome benefit by Chriſt more than conformity to Chritt. - 


Ocome! ſee the. falneſſe of Chrifts life ! in reference to- our 
fanRification, was it not a moſt exa&t model bo | 7 omgrons ? 4 
moſt curious exemplification of Gods whole Word? an expreſle 
Jdea, Image, repreſentation - NG minde of God ? afull 

ident for all others ro walke by, to work by, to liye by ?- and 
porenck to juſtification, is hot Chriſfts fete ob TRI faich 
and juſtifying ? nay is not Chriſts life the obje& of juſtifying 
faith, as well as Chrifts deach , reſurreRion;, aſcenſion, ſeſſion, 
interſeſfion ? the aſſertors of Chriſts ative and paſtive obedience 
for us, can tell us of two things in the law intended,one principal, 
viz,. obedience : and #notber ſecondary, viz. malediction, fup- 


poſition'of diſobedience ; fo that id there * 


muſt be a doublea@ co juſtification, the ſuffering of the curſe, 
and the fulfilling of righteonſneſſe anew, the one is fatisfaftion 
for the injury we have doneunto God as our jadpe, and the other 
is a performance of a ſervice which we owe unto God as our Mak- 
er, Othenhow large, and full, and comprehenſive is this life of 
Chriſt > 

2, Conſiderthe excellency, the glory of this objet : Chriſts 
life is glorious; and hence itis that the righteouſneſſe of Chrift 
is the moſt glorious garment that ever the Saints of God did 


weare. Itis Marlrats ſaying, that the Church which puts os 14 ,41,,.4 


Chriſt and his righteouſneſſe is more illuſtrious than the ayre ts by Rey. 141, 


the Sun. John thus ſets her out in his viſion, and there appeared a 
great wonder in heaven, a woman cloathed with the Sun, and the 
*moone under her feet, I take this to be a lofty poetical deſcripti- 
on of Chriſts imputed righteouſneſſe ; py a garment were 

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wonder if the Church cloathed with the, Sun tre4g the moone wnder 
ber feet (.) ifſhe a 7. on all fublugary, things, - which are 


uncertaine and changeable as the moone, / count all things but 


dang (faith. Paul) that Lmay pin Criſt; and be feand in him, 


not baving my own righteowſueſſe which is of the lam, . but that-which 
is through the faith of Chriſt, -the righteouſneſſe which 4 
God by faith. When Pan! compares Chriſts righreouſne 
with the glory of the . world, then is'the, world but dung 
O-: the. glory /-. O. the excellency of the. righteouſreſſe: of 
Chriſt ! | 

3. Conſider the ſuitableneſſe of thisobje&,. Chrifts life, and 
the vertue of it, is moſt ſuitable to our condit.on , Thus I might 
apply Chriſt to eyery condition, if thou art ſick he is a Phyſitian , 
if thou feareſt death ,heis the way, the trath, and the life; if thou 


- art hungry, heische bread of life; if thou art thirſty, he is the 


water of life, but not toinſilt on theſe words,. 1t is the dayly 
complaint of the beſt of Saitits,,” © my ſnnes ! 1 had thought the f 
finnes hgd been wholly ſubdued, but now 1 feels they retarne upon me 


araine, now 1 feele the Fprings inthe bettome fill up my ſoul againe, 
Oh I am wear) ra ſelfe, fu, weary of my 7A oh Hy] 
of me ? in this caſe now Chriſts life is moſt ſuicable, hisrighteouſ. 
neſſe, is a continual righteouſneſfle , it is. not a ceſterne, but « 
fountaine open far thee to waſh in; as (inne abeunds, lo grace inthis 
guift of righteouſneſſe abounds much more. Chriſts life in this 
reſpe& is compared to changes of garments, thou cryelt, O what 
ſball become of me ? Oh I feele new ſynnes, and eld ſinnes committed a 
freſs ,, why but theſe changes of garment; will hide all-thy (ins : 
if thou art but cloathed with the rubes of Chriſts righteouſneſle, 
there ſhall never enter into the Lords heart, one hard thought 
towards thee of cafting thee off, . or of taking revenge upon any 
new occaſion or fall into ſin. Why, here is the bleſſedneſle of all 
thoſe that beleeve, Oh then beleeve, ſay not would Chriſt be 
incarnate fer me ? wonld he leade ſncha life on earth for my ſoul ? 
why yes for thy ſoul never ſpeak of thy {1ns, as if they ſhould be 
any hinderance of thy faith , if the wicked that apply this righte- 


- ouſnefle preſumteouſly can ſay, /et us in that grace may abound, 


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* abound, that as my ſinmes have been exceeding great, fo the Lord 
may be exceedin y ery that as my ſin: continue ind encreaſe, [0 
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Of loving feſua in that reſpef>. 


6. | gre love Feſus ag carrying on the great work of our 

ſalvation for us during his hfe, Now what is ve but a 
mution of the appetite by which the ſoul unites it ſelfe to what ſcems 
faire wntoit ? Andifſo, O whata "_—_ objeRt

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and not - love him . with afingular love ?-rthar 
' which ſet the daughters of 7er«ſalem in a poſture of ſeeking after 
Chriſt, was that deſcription of Chriſt, which the Spouſe made of 


him, my brloved is white and ruday, the chiefeſt, of ten thouſands, his Cant. 10,11; 
head i4 4s the mo#t fine gold, his licks are buſhy and black, as a raven, 12,13,4,15, 


his eyes are as the eyes of doves, by the rivers of water, waſhed with 
milke, and finely ſet, fois cheeks are as abed of ſpices,” and ſweet 
flowers , hes lips like lillies aropping ſweet ſmell-ng myrrhe, &c. 
By theſe are intimated unto us the government of Chriſt, the 
unſearchable councels of Chriſt, the pure nature of Chriſt with- 
out any impurity or uncleanneſſe , the gracious promiſes of 
{briſt, the ſoul-ſaving inſtruftions of Chriſt , the holy aRions, 
and juſt adminiſtrations of {hriſt, the tender affetions, and 
aimable ſmilings of Chriſt, the gracious, inward, and wonderful 
workings of Chriſt ; ſo that be isaltogetheFſovely, or heis com- 
poſed of loves, from top to toe there's norhing in Chriſt; but 
tis moſt faire and beautiful, lovely and defireable.— Now as this 

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appetite to what is lovely, how ſhould thou flame 
forth . in--loves upon the Lord Jeſus Chriſt 7:'this is" rendered 
as the reaſori of thoſeſparklings, thow'art fairs thah the children of 
men, ; 
10. When he ſaw thee aRually unclean, ' a tranſgreſſor of the 
law in thought, word, and deed; then ſaid he, /oe, / come ro dovhy' 
will er :1 and wherefore would he do Gods will,bur-meerly on 
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O my ſoul, canſt thou read over all theſe paſſages of love, ahd- 
doſt thounot.yet cry.out;” O ftay me, comfort me, for Tam ſick of 
love ? cana man ſtandby an hot. and fiery furnace, and never be 
warmed > Oh for an: heart in ſome meaſure anſwerabletothele 
loves { Surely-even good natures hate to be in debr- for loye; 
and is there-in thee (O my ſoul): neirher grace, nor yet good nd- 
ture? /O God forbid! awake ! awake thy ardent love towards 
the Lord Jeſus Chrift 1 why thou art rock, and not fleſh, if thou 
beeſt not wounded with theſe heavenly darts ; Chriſt loves thee, 
is not thatenough ? fervent affetionis apt to draw.love, where 
is little or no beauty, and excellent ' beauty isapt to' draw the 


" heart where there is no anſwer ofaffetion at all , but when theſe 


two meet together, what breſt can hold againſt-them ? ſee O my 
ſoul / hereis the ſumme

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Sins are forgiven me, O thatT 
may Joverhee much. 


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SECT. 7. 
Of joying- in feſus in that reſpett. 


7. [ Etus joy in Zeſws, as carrying on the great work of our 

+ ſalvation for us, duting his life. But what is thete in 
Chriſts life, orin all the paſſages of his life to ſtir up joy ? I an» 
ſwer, all his life, and all the paſſages of his life, if rightly applied, 
areexcellent matter for the ſtirring up of this affe&tion, indeed 


the maine of the work is in the application of Chriſts life , if ever _ 


we rejoyce fpiritually in Chriſt, we muſt bring, together the ob- 
jeR and the faculty, and this union of the object and the faculty 
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froicion, 1 ſhall but a while inſiſt on theſe, chat we may come up 
it laſt to rejoyce in Chriſt , yea if it were pollible to rejuyce; and 
againe rejoyce, WHY <td 
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to ſupply 
all my wants, he was ſer up on purpoſe to give me grace, and 
to renew my ſtrength, ſo thatif I make my application to Chriſt, 
1can do all things, Phil. 4.13. 7 can ſuffer the leſſe f all things, 
Phil. 3. 8. 1.can conquer all things, nay in all things be more than 
a conqueronr through bins that loves me, Rom. 8. 37. .Ohthe joy 
now that this accommodation brings to my ſoul | | ſee it is no- 
thing but Chriſt, and therefore I cannot but rejoyce in this 
Chriſt, or I muſt rejoyce in nothing at all; Surely we are the cir- 
eumcifion, which rejoyce in Chriſt feſus,and have ns confidence in the 
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this bleſſed obje&t, the Lord Jeſus {hriſt, if thou know'ſt not 
how ? firſt contemplate on Chriſt think on thoſe ſeveral paſſages 
in hislife

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the glorious things that were Luke 1 3. 


done by bim. Orifthy heart be ſo dull and heavy, that this will 
not raiſe it up, then look to wa grounds of hope, and confidence 
in Chriſt ; ſo long as thou doubteſt of him, or of thy intereſt in 
him, how ſhouldſt thou rejoyce, or be cheerful in thy ſpiric> the 
re man could not ſpeak it without reares, Lord I beleeve, help 
thou my unbelief,, a belecving undelief, a waveriog, ſtaggering, 
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not this affe&ion to ſtir, aſpire to fruition, yea to more and more. 
fruition of Chrift, andunion with Chriſt, and ro that purpoſe 

conſider thy propriety to {'brift, thy poſſeſſion of Chriſt, and the 

accommodation or uſefulnefſe of Chrift to thy condition,- what- 

ſoever itis. What ? will not theſe things move thy ſpiricual de- 

light? canſt thou not heare Chriſt ſay, a// Tam « thine, and all 1 

have done is thine, for thy uſe, and for thy benefit > and doth not 

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' thoſeworks proper to his God. head, as in working miracles , I 


deny not but that the works of miracles were by way of privi- 
ledge, and temporary diſpenſation granted to the Apoſtles and 
ſome others, but this was but for mciſtry and ſervice, not. for 
their ſanity or ſalvation ;- nor muſt we: conforme. to Chriſtin 
thoſe works of his mediation, asin redeeming ſouls, in ſatisfying 
divine juſtice for our ſinne, wo was can redeem is brother, nor give 
to God a ranſome for him : there 1s but one Mediatour ' betwery God 
and man, the man Chrift Jeſus; nor muſt we conformero Chriſt 
in thoſe works of his government, agdinfluence into his Church , 
asin his diſpencing of his Spirit, in quickning of his Word, in ſab. 
duing of his enemies, in collecting of his members, all theſcare 
perſonal honours, which belong unto Chriſt , as heivheadof the 
Church, and to theſe works, if we ſhould endeayour to conforme, 
we ſhould crack ourſinews, diſſolve our filyer coards ,-and' gever 


| the _nearer.---nor need wee to conforme to-Chriſt -inſome- other 


particulars, in his voluntary poverty, he became poore for our: ſak#e: 
2 Cor. 8. 9. In his cetemonial performances, - as in goingup to 
7eruſalemat thefeaſts , in his perpetual grave - deportment;” we 
never read that Jeſus laugbed ; and but once or twice that he 
rejoyced in ſpirit : alas ! the declenfions of our natures cannot 
come up to this patterne, nor doI look at theſe paſſages as any 
aRs of moral obedience at all. . n, 
2. Affirmatively, or poſitively, we muft conforme to Chriſts 
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lives were ſo many 
Sermons of the life of Chriſt, Bok 
5. In reſpe& of all his as, praQtiſes, duties of moral obedi- 
ence; we findein the life of Chriſt many particular carriages, 
and afts of obedience to his heavenly Father, whereof ſome were 
moral, and ſome ceremonial ; now all theſe are not for our imi- 
tation, but only ſuch moral as, as concerning which we have 
both his patterne, ' and precept, -come, let us marke this one 
rule, and weneed no more, whatſoever he commanded, and what- 
ſoever he did, of preciſe morality, we are therein bound to follow his 
ſteps. 1 joyne together his commands, and deeds, becauſe in 
thoſe things which he did, but commands not, we need not to 
conforme, but in thoſe things which he both did, and command- 
ed, we are bound to follow him, in ſuch a caſe his laws and 
practiſe differ, but as a map and guide; a law, a Judge, a rule,and 
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is that we finde ſuch names giveri to him in Scripture, \ as ſignifies 
- not only prebeminence, but exemplarinefſe; rhus he was called © 
«Prizce, Dan. 925. # Leader, Wu. 55. 4. a Governouy, Mt, 2.6. 
4a Captaine, 2. 10. a chief Shepheard, 1 Pet. 5: 4. 4 fortfunier or 
" 'rondutt into glory, Heb. 2. 20. a l:gbt tothe Fewes,” Ex0d; 13.21. 
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intq the world, Joh, 1. 9. all whict ticles, as they; geclared h 
nity, ſo his exemplarineſs, that he was the aurhoFand ne 
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. 4 £54 <J anſwer, 1. Becauſe Chriſt hath done and ſuffered very mich 
7 to that end and purpoſe, » Sometimes 1 have wondered why 
Kath + <, / Chriſt would do ſo much, and ſuffer ſo muchas the Evangeliſts 
Ju fr in their hiſtories relate? This I beleeve, that" Jeſus was perfeRt 
F 47 God, and petfe&t man, / and thatevery ation of his life, an{bur 

| | one hour of his paſſion and death,” myght have been ſatisfaR; 

| and enough for the expiation and reconcilement of ten thou 
worlds; but now1 am anſwered, that all thoſe inſtances of holi- 
neſſe, and-all thoſe kinds of vertues, and all thoſe degreesof 
paſſion, ' and all that effuſion of his blood, was partly onthis 
account, that he might becomean example tous, that he niighe 
ſhineto all the ages and generations of the world, and ſo be a 
guiding ſtar, and a pillar offireto them in their joarny towards 
heaven, O my foul, how doth this call on thee to conforme to 
Chriſt > what ? that a ſmaller expence ſhould be enough tothy 
juſtification, and yet that the whole magazine ſhould not pro- 
. © cure thy ſanctification? that @t aleſſer ſumme of obedience 
God might have pardoned thy (inne, and yet at a preater ſumme 
thou wilt not ſo much as imitate his holineſſe? in a darke night 
ifan ignis farum g0 before thee, thou art ſo amuzed. with that 
C little flame, that thou art apt to follow it, andloſe thy ſelfe, and 
wilt thou not follow the glortes of the Sun of righteouſneſſe, who 
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but a life of juſtice, and temperance, 
and chaſtity, and piety, and charity, and devotion , ſuch a life as 
without which humane. ſociery cannot be conleryed ; — Andit 
is very remarkable, thac beſides the eaſineſſe of his imitation, 
there isa vertue and efficacy irf the life of Chriſt ; a merit, and 
imperrationinthe ſeyeral paſſages of Chriſts life, to work out our 
imitation- of him, In the Bohemian hiſtory izis reported that 
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a"remote Church, _ his ſervant. Podavivus who waited on his-- 
Maſter ,and endeavoured to imitate his Maſters piety, he beganto 
faint through the violence of the, ſnow, .andcold, at lat-the 
King conimanded him, to follow him, and to ſer his feet. in che 
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ye holy, for I am wa againſt this, ſome 
obje&t, how can we be holy a&Chriſt is holy ? firſt, the thing is 
impoſſible, and ſecondly, it we could, there would be no need of 
Chriſt. But 1 anfwer to thefirſt , the thing if rightly underſtood, 
isnot impoſſible, we are commanded tobe holy as Chrift is holy, 
not in reſpe& of equality, asif our holineſſe muſt be of the ſame 
compaſle with the holineſſe of Chriſt ; but in reſpe& ot quality, 
our holineſſe muſt be of the ſame ſtampe, andtruth, as the holj- 
neſſe of Chriſt ; as when the Apoſtle ſaith, rhat we muſt love iÞ 
neighbonr, as our ſelfe , the meaning is not that our love to our 
neighbour ſhould be Mathematically equal to the love of our 
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cordial, -as ſincere, _as (6lid as that ro ourſelves ; we maſt love  - 
our neighbour, as oxr ſelves (3. ) unfaignedly, 8nd without diflimu: 1 
lation. — Againe, anſwer, to the ſecond, ' Chrilt is needfu] nor. 
withſtanding our utmoſt holineſſe intwo reſpets, 4, Becaule - 
we cannot come to full and perfe& holinefſe, and fo his grace is 
requilireto pardon and cover our failings 2.' Becauſe that which 
we doattaine unto, it is not of, or from'ourſelyes, and ſo his 
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the third, how we muſt conforme to this life? Tan- 
wer; 
1, Let usframe to our. ſelves ſome Idea of Chriſt, let us ſet 
before us the life of Chriſt in the whole, and all the parts of it, as 
we findeit recorded in Gods book. "It would bea large picture 
 ifT ſhoulddraw it to the full, but for a taſt I ſhall give it in 
few lines. Now then _ alide the conſideration of 
Chriſt as God, or as. Mediatour, or as head of his 
Church. — 
I, Tlook at themindeof Chriſt, at his judgement, will;affeRi- 
ons ; ſuch as love; joy, delight, and the reſt, and eſpecially at 
the compaſſions of Jeſus Chriſt, O the deare affeRions,. and 
.compaſſions which Chriſt had towards the ſonnes of men ! this 
was his etrand from heaven, and while he was upon the earth he Luke ,, 18. 
was ever aCing it, I meane his pitifulneſſe, I meane his affe&ions, 
and compaſſion in healing broken hearts , fo the Plalmiſt, he heal- pg , 47: 36" 
eth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds , it is ſpoken - 
after the manner of a Chirurgion, he had a tender heart towards 
all broken hearts; he endeavoured to pur all broken bones into 
their native place againe , nor ſpeak 1 thus only of him-inreſpet 
of his office ;, but as he was man, he had in him ſuch « nd, that 
he could not but compaſſionate all in miſery ; O what bowels-/ « 
what ſtirr ngs, and boylings, and wreſtlings of a pained heart, 
rouched with ſorrow, was ever, upon occaſion, in Jeſus Chriſt FR 
- peruſe theſe texts, and eſs went forth, and ſaw a great multi- 
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WE. Yar, 14d, dt _ ſhepheard, —— and there came a leper to hims, and 
: - kneeling down to him, and ſaying to him, if thou wilt, thon canſt make 
me cheane, and Feſus moved with compaſſion, put forth his hand, a#d 
rouched him, ſaying, 1 will,be thou cleane, — T hen 7eſu called ir 
| diſciples wnto him,and ſaid, Thave compaſſion on the maltit#de. And 
Mar: 15-33 fort &two blind men, that cryed out, have mercy on us O Lord 
-, trhou ſameof David, itis ſaid, that fel food ftill; =— and he had 
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; tim, and bad compaſſion, and ran and fell on his neck and kiſſed hin. 
How ſweetis this laſt inſtance | that our ſenſe of finful weakiieſſe, 
ſhould be ſorrow and'paine to the bowels and heart | of Jeſus 
Chriſt ! you that are Parents 6f young children, ler me put the 
. caſe, if ſome of you ſtanding in the relation of a Father,” ſhonld 
ſee hischild ſwear, and wreſtle ucder an over-load, till his back 
werealmoſt broken, atid that you ſhould hearchim cry, 0h 1 am 
gone, 1 faint, I ſink, [dje;, would notyour bowels be moved to 
pity ? and would not your hands be, ſtretched out ro help? orif 
ſome of you ſtandingin the relation of'a mother, ſhould ſee-your 
ſucking child fallen into a pit, and wreſtling with the water,” and 
crying for hetp, would you not ſtir, nor be movedin hearc, nor 
run to deliver the child from being drowned? Surely you would, 
and yet all this pity and compaſſion of yours is but as # ſhadow 
of the compaſlions and deare affeQtions, that were, and that are- 
in the heart of Jeſus Chriſt, O he had a minde devoyd of fin; and 
therefore it. could not bur be full of pity, mercy,and tender bowels 
of compaſlion. © 
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full ofall the graces ofthe Spirit, a banale of myrrhe, is my well- 
Cant 1,13,14 beloved to me: — my beloved is unto me as acl: ſter of camphire in 
the vinejards of Engedi : a bundle of myrrhe, anda cluſter of 
camphire denote all che graces of the Spirit , as many flowers are 
hound together. in a nolegay , lo the varietyof the graces 
, of the *pirir , concenter'd in the heart of Jeſus- Chriſt, 
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derfi it of this {o- great humility ? #ezer, what. dot thou 
. wilt choyever yceld that this Lord, of Majeſty fbould waſh thy 
feet > methioks | heare Peter, ſaying, whet Lord, wilt thow waſh 
” fer ? art not theuthe Soune of the {iing God ? the C reatour of 
"* world, the beauty of the beavens, the Paradiſe of Anzels, the 
Redeemer of men, the brightneſſe of the Fathers glory? and 1, what 
am 1,but a worme, a clodof earth, a muſerable ſinner ? and wilt thou 
notwithſtanding all this waſh my feet ? leave Lord, O leave this baſe 
office for thy ſervants ,, lay drwn thy towel, and put cnthy apparel 


againe ; beware that the heavens, or the Angels of heaven te not . 


aſhamed of it, when they ſhall ſee that by this ceremony thou [erſt them 
beneath the earth , take beed leaſt the daughter of King Saml defÞiſe 
thee wot, when ſpe ſhall ſee thee girded about with this towel after 
the manner of a ſervant, and ſhall ſay, \ that ſhe will not take thee for 
her beloved, and much leſſe ftrher God, whom ſhe ſeeth to attend 


upon ſo baſe an office. Thus may1 imagine Peter to beſpeak his * 


Maſter, but he little knew what glory lay hidinthis humility of 
Chriſt , it was for us,and our example; an humble Chrift,co make 
humble Chriftians 


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preaching , wearineſle in travelling, watchfulneſſe in praying, 
tearesin compaſtionating, and then 1 adde to all theſe his ſub- 
miſſion of Spirit, notwithſtanding all the affronts, injuries, and 
exprobrations of men, how ſhou!ldI but cry out; 0 the patience 
of ( hriſs ! the Apoſtle tells us that when be was reviled, be reviled 


not againe, when he ſuffered, he threatn:d not, but committed himſelf * Pet. z. 2}, 


to him that juadgeth righteouſty, I havealready given a touch 
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© 3, I lookat the converſation of Chriſt in word and deed ; for 
his words,they were gracious. Not an idle word eyer came out 


Marth, x2. 36, ofthe lips of Chriſt , himſelfe tells us that of every idle word we 


muſt give an account, © then how free was Chriſt of every idle 
word? he knew the times and ſeaſons when to ſpeak, and when 
to befilent ; he weig 

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filence, and a time to ſpeak, ſaid Solomon, when he returned apaine 
to his wiſedome, and hence we read that ſometimes Jeſus bein 
accuſed ,he held his peace ,, and when he was accuſed of the chief 
Prieſts and Elders he anſwered nothing , bat other whiles he 
powres out whole cataraRts of holy inſtructions, he takes occa- 
lion of vines, of ſtones, of water, and ſheep, to ſpeak a word in 
ſeaſon ; heis ſtill diſcourſing of the matters of the Kingdome of 
heaven; and he ſpeaks ſuch words as give grace unto all the 
hearers round bout him , ſo for his deeds and ations they were 
full of grace and goodnefle , the Apoſtle Peter gives him this 
character (which 1 look upon as a little deſcriptionof Chriſts 
life) who went about ding good; it was his meat and drink to do 
all the good he could ,, it was as natural to him to do good, as it 
is for a fountaine to ſtreame out, he was holy and heavenly, un- 
ſpotted every way ; O the ſweet converſation of Chriſt ! how 
humbly carries he it amongſt men? how benignly "towards his 
diſciples ?*how pitiful was he towards the poore ? to whom (as 
weread) he made himſelfe moR like, he became poore, that we might 
be made rich, hedeſpiſed, or abhorred none, no not the very 
leapers, that were eſchewed of all , he flattered not the rich and 
honourable , he was moſt free from thecares of the world , his 
preſcriptions were, care not for the things of the morrow ; and in 
himſelfe he was never anxious of bodily needs, above all, he was 
Moſt ſolicitous of ſaving fouls. — much more I might adde, ifT . 
ſhould go over the -particulars in the Goſpel , but by theſe 
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am as oppoſite to Chriſt 
1. For my thoughts, within I am full of 


pride, and malice ; Iam full of the ſpirit of the world; [what i 
_ there in my heart but aworld of paſlions, rebllor, dgpeſſ, 
and deadneſſe of ſpirit to good ? and, 2. If the 'fo 
muddy, can1 expect clearefireams ? what words are theſe, that 
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word, but how many idle, evil, finful words come dayly flowing 
from my lips? owt of the abundance of the month the heart fpeaketh; 
and if 1 may gueſle at my heart by my words, where was my heart 
. this Sabbath, and the other Sabbath, when my diſcourſe was all 
on-my calling, or on the world, or it may be on my luſts, or on 
my Dalilahs, on my right-hand-ſins, or on my right-eye-ſins ? 
and, 3. WhataGctions are theſe ſo frequently performed by me? 
if I muſt reade my ſtate by my converſation, whoſe image and 
ſuperſcriptisn i this ? thelaſt oath I ſware, the laſt blaſphemy T 
belched "2 the laſt at of drunkenneſle, idolatry,adultery I com- 
mitted, (or iftheſeſins are not fir to be named) the laſt piece of 
wrong I did my neighbour, - the laſt pranke of pride I played on 
this ſtage of the world, the laſt expence' of time when I did no 
ood in the world, neither to my ſelfe nor others, the laſt omiſ- 
Fon of good, as well as commillion of evil; O my ſoul, whoſe 
image is this? is it the image of Chrift, or of Sathan ? if che 
worlt ſcholar in the ſchoole ſhould write thus untowardly after 
his copy, would he not beaſhamed > if in my heart and life I ob. 
ferve'ſo many blots, and ftaines, ſo great inconformity, and 
dixfimilitude to the life of Chriſt, how ſhould I but lye in the 
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clearly are theſe, and all other my enormities diſcovered, difcerf- 
ed, made evident,, and plaine by the bleſſed and holy life of Jeſus ? 


- fo true is that. rule, \\contraria juxta4 ſe poſita pagis 'tlu- 


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4a Let us quicken, provoke, and incenſe our ſluggiſh, droufie 
ſouls to conforme to Chriſt. If we will but ſtrictly obſerve our 
hearts, we ſhall finde them very backward to this duty, and 
therefore let-us call upon our ſouls as David did, Bleſſe rhe Lord 
O my ſonl, and let all that *s within me bleſſe his holy Name , let 
us work upon our ſouls by reaſoning with our own hearts, asif 
we diſcourſed with them thus, O my heart, or O my ſoul, if inthe 
deep councels of eternity this was Gods great deligne to make 
his Sonre like thee, that thou alſo mightelt be like his Sonne, how 
then ſhouldeſt thou but endeayour to conforme ? and what fayes 
the Apoſtle > for whom he did foreknow, he alſo did predeftinate, to 
be cexformed to the image of his Sonne : this wasone of his great 
purpoſes from eternity ; this law God fet down, before he made 
the world, that I ſhould conforme to his Son., and what, Ofmy 
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thou deſtroy the end of Chriſts coming in the fieſh ? or 
would thou miſſe of that end for which Chriit came in relation 
to thy.good ? O,God forbid ! againe, confider the example of 
the Saincs before chee, if this was their holy ambition to be like 
their Jeſas, emulate them in this, for this isa bleſſed emulacion , 
it is obſervable how the heathengs themſelves had learnt a rule 
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, as Cate, or Socrates, orthelike; and really to take his 
life as the direRtion of all their ations; butts not the life of Jeſus 
far more precious, and infinitely more worthy of imitation ? we 
readein hiſtory of one Cecilia a virgin, who accuſtomed her ſelfe 
tothe beholding of Chrift for imitation, and to that purpoſe ſhe 
ever carryed in h-r breſt ſome pieces of the Goſpel, which ſhe 
had gathered out of all the Evangelifts, and thereon night and 
day ſhe was either reading, or meditating, this work ſhe carried 
on in ſuch a circulation, thatart laſt ſhe grew perfeRin it, and fo 
enjoyed Chriſt and the Goſpel, not only in her breſt, but alſo in 
the ſecrets of her heart; as appeared by her love of Chriſt, and 
confidence in Chriſt, and familiaricy with Chriſt , as alſo by her 
contempt of the world , and all ics glory, tor Chrift his fake , 
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not only in the day , -but he ſ2all te all night berwixe my breſts, 
What, Omy ſoul,' was this the praQtiſe of the Saints 2 ant wile 
thou not be of that communion? O God forbid | thus let us - 
quicken-and provoke our ſoules ro this conformity ; ler us excite, 
rouze incenſe, awake, . and ſharpen up our wretched, ſlupiſh, 
drouzy, lazy, fouls; our faint,feeble, flagging, faultering, droop- 
ing, languiſhing affections, deſires, endeavours ! let us with en- 
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Chriſt, let us keep our ſpiritu- 
aleyes ftill on che patterne, untyll we feel our (elves conforming 
toit : itisatrue ſaying, that objefts and moving reaſons kept much 
apon the mind by ſerious thoughts, are the great engint, both appointed 
hy nature and grace, to turne about the ſoul of man. '1f1 may deli- 
'veritin fewer termes, objetts conſidered much, or frequently, do 
teirne the ſoul into their own vature.. Such as the things are we 
moſt think of, 'and conſider of, ſuch will be our ſelves, or if we. 
benotſo, it is not through any imperfeRtion in the obje& (eſpe- 
ciallyin ſuch an obje& as Jeſus Chriſt is). bur becauſe iis not well 
applyed, and by conſideration held upon the heart, till it may 
work there, indeed the manner of this working may be ſecret, 
and inſenfible, yerifwe follow on, we ſhall feele itinthe iſſue; 
the beholding of Chriſt is a/powerful beholding; there is a chang- 
ing, 9s por Aer goes out of Chriſt, by looking on Chrilh, 
<an we think of his humikty, and not be humble ? can we think 
of his meekneſſe and pentleneſle of Spirit, and yet we. continue 
in our ferceneſſe, roughneſſe, frowardneſle of ſpirit ? can a 
proud fierce heart'apprehend a meek, and ſweet, and lowly Jeſus? 
ro, no; the heart muſt be ſuitable to the thing apprebended, it 
ts impoſſibleotherwiſe ; certainly if the /ooþ beright, there muſt 
be a ſaitablenefſe berwixt the heart and Chriſt, Sight works 
upon che imagination in bruit creatures; as Laban ſheep, when 
they faw the party-coloured rods, they had lambs ſuitable, now 

will ſight work upon imagination, and imagination - work a real 
change in nature? andis not theeye of the minde '( eſpecially 
theeye of faith) more ſtrong and powerful ? if Ibut write after 
a copy, I ſhall in a while learne to write like it, if 1 ſeriouſly me- 
ditate on any excellent ſubject, it will leave a print behind it on 
my ſpirit , if I read bur the life and death of ſome eminently 
gracious and holy man, it molds, and faſhions, andtransformes, 
and conformes my . minde to his fimilitude ; even ſo, and much 
more is it in thiscaſe , ſince the eye of faith works in the matter, 
which in it ſelfe is operative and effeQual, and therefore it cannot 
but work more, than where is only ſimple imitation, or naked 
medication ; O then let us ſer the copy' of Chriſts life (as before 
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