Book I. the ~een of Sheba hearing Solomons wifdome. Oh faid 1he , BleJfed aYe thofe thy fe~vants that alw;1yes Jl:and before thee , 1 King. ro, 8! and hear thy wifdeme· tf 1he were fo taken Wtth Solomon, re~ . member that a greate; then Solomon is ~ere ; and. 1hall ~e de~ prive our felves of that bleifedneffe, whtch we m1ght enJOY by franding alwayes in the prefence ofChrifr, to hear his wifdome, and to behold his glory? · · Oh my bretl)ren, let us take 1hame to our felves, that to this day we have been fo careleffe in fending, bending, binding our minds to this bleffed objeCt, Jefus Chrift ; yea, let us blufh that we have not made it our daily buGneffe.David defcrifm the blef fed man by his delighting in the l~tw of the Lord, and by his me- . , · ditating on tl?at Law day and night; how then is he to be re- Pfal. J, ~~ proved, that neither meditates on the Law of the Lorcl, nor on the Lord, the Law-maker, day and night? 0 alas ! we keep not aconfrant courfe, we are not daily in the exercife of viewing Je. fus; nay I fear, we look upon this duty of lookjng unto,Jefj:#, as a queftionable thing; it feemes to many_as a duty unknoWn, unhe'tird of, unthought of, it is not in their notice, and how 1hould it. be in their praCtice? But I leave this firfr ufe. S'E CT; Iv. · rfe of exhortation. IS inward, e~perimentaf. look};ng unto [e/m .a choice, and l~igh V fe 2~ Gofpel-ordmance? One ufe of exhortatwn. I befeech you . · by the meekzuf[e and gentlenef{e of Chrijf. I befeech youhy the C • .f' G J I b ,r: h {; h fi iJ. , or. Io. I. ' mercJes. o 1 oa. e 1 eec you ret ren, or the Lord 1 efus Rom. 1 ~. 1 , {hrijfs fake, and for the love of the Spirit, to loolzuni'o 'je[UJ.i Rom, 1 5· 30. or ifmy befeechings. will not preva!le, why yet look on me as an Embaffadour of Chriit, confider as though God did be(eech you /;y me, I befeech , I pray you in Chrifts /had; 1t is a meifagc that I have from God to your fouls to to loolz unto 'Jefm; and~ Cor. r. 10 ; tb~refore Jet .Jour hearts t~ all ~he word~ t~at .{ teflifie to you Deur. 3l• 46. thu day, for tt u not a vame thmg, 6ut tt ts for your lh·es. 0 that I 1hould need thus to perfwade your hearts to look 1/n• to ,
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