theCloud is taken ofthe Tabernacle. 10 faith James,Weought not (fpeakingof the Saints) to deter- mine this or that, we will goe this way or that, threatning . a woe to them that fayTo morrow we will goe to fuch a City or place, and remain there a yeere, and there we will buy and fell, and get gain : but we mufffrom our foules fay, if the Lord will ; when we once come under the tuition and tutorage of the Sonne ofGod , and come tobe of the congregation of If rael, thenwe goe not when we lift , or would ; but weare to attend the Lords hand in removing thecloud from the taber- nacle ; and ifhe remove it not to day , we are to fray till the next day; and whenfoever he removes it, then is the day of our journey and going onwards. Therefore the Apoftle tels us of a Councellor and Leader they had ; and I know alío theworld tels of a guide and rule; but it is a Rule which they themfelves knownot, nor uncle! Randwhen it is croo- ked, and when tis ftraight ; but the Apoffle tels us of ano- ther Ruler, and Teacher, As many as are Chrißs, are led by the fpirit of Chrift. And in the Alts it is Paid the Apoífles would have gone into Bithynia. After they were come to Mia they aflayed to goe into Bitbynia, but the fpirit fuffered them not: for they found trouble andoppofition : there was the Lord leading of them and guidingof them,otherwife they did not fet afoot forward, their eye was frill upon the Lord: fo till the cloud be removed from over the Tabernacle , the foule will finde nothing but trouble and defiruOion if it goe onward, and the Lord hath not difcovered the light of the Tabernacle and himfelfe goe before it. Then in the firft place this difcovers to us, that there are ufirally two things in the way of Chrift which often- times in the world are miffaken , and taken one for another ; there are , I fay , the heavenly things themfelves and there are the Patterns of them- ; now the pattern is not fet forth for it felfe , but in reference and relation unto the thing of which it is a pattern;And a copy or exemplar,it is not for it felfe, but in relation to what we fhould a&, imitate, or doe by it : fo there are the heavenly things themfelves, and the patterns, or types, or fimilitudes of them. ; Take fpeciall notice of thefe two things. Now we fhall Jam.4.ì3, &c. Rom.8.t4 Ads 17.7
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