Alleine - Houston-Packer Collection BX5201 .A42 1664 pt.2

' ' I will not onlycoH~nJand, perfwade, incline you, but [ caufe J you. It {hall be done, my Spirit fhall bting yon on, and help you thr 1 ough!'Ye[Jhall] keep wy Statutes~and do .them..Where ever the ·s p1rit of .God hath breathed 1~ t;e ltfe ofgrace,t~ere ~re more than breathtngs out after a gracioUt liff .Sincere grace bath more in ic,than wijhings and ..,ouldings,tha1l at– tempts andOvertures; Life is a power to aa. Phil. 2. 11, 13. WDr"- out your oJPn S~tlvation, f~r tt -u God th~tt wor~eth in you,to will and to do~Where ever Godwor· keth the 'Ta velle,he works al(o theTa 1perari. Wher~ ever §od work!'[ in l he gives us a power to work [out] the works of Gbriftianity. Oh reft not, 'dll thou find thy felf indued with this power fron1 on hign,& inablep to go throt.mh with -thy work: They are not thy Attempts, but thy At chi~vements?, 1hey are not thy Offers at an Hol.J Life, but thy a8:ing if~ that mu.fr prove th..ce a Chriftian ; Me that aQJb R..igh., teou[nefs, Hrighteouif\ . , Be it thus with ~hee; be alL .toCbrift, let Chrift be all to thee; let ~11 Chrift be accept~d ~nd ip~ro~ ved by thee; hearttly accept the ment of Cllnlt's Righ t eoufnefs,fuhtnit to the light and authority '9f his Law; get thy felf poffefi w¥ h, and live in the power of his Spii'it : Be it thus with thee, come np hith'er, and-the~l thou a1~t fafe ~ Thy almo§i is ntiw come toa]togetber;and if I n1ufl.now leave thee,thot,l wih be the better,'\ble to fpare n1e : Tht[e things J.a., 111id the God of Pett~e jhall be with thee. Thou art gotten into Sanetuary; and now vvhatever 'J7offing; and Tun1bl~ngs,whatfo~ver ':!npleaftng_or affheti~g ~hanges_may be thy Lot ln this World, thou tnay lt fi.n~ th~t ~e~uiem tq th! f~If~~e~!l_r~ unt~ th! reft,~Z J ' I .... .. '

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