(J20) . Storm,hath ~ften prov 'd afru~tful Dew: thofe very Clouds he expeEled lhoul razn dpwn Snarer, have– o(ten dropt dow'! fatnefs: If you will go 'on, Hell f9all help you fdrward; the DeviPs Rod~on ·your back, !hall_but hdp to n1end your pace; bJs Thorns ,[hall be S~urs in your fides: By ftripping you of your flefhly Delights, he fhall but fia rve your Luits, .his Friends: his Bnrthens !h1ll be your Ball~lfl, eo. make your courfe n1ore fteady : Ch rifiians are fel.. ' don1 in fuch a thriving and profp~rous fiate, as when they are juft co1ne out of the hand-s of a per· fecuting Devil. \/ . ' Chriitians, grow in Grace; t here~s no feafon but ' may be·a growing Scafon: Grow in gracr, end in thl ~no wledr;e of our Lord and S avi :J ur Je[UI Lhrijf: Let ' that l iving fpr ing, wh id is broken forth in you, be; like i:he W;iiters o f the ~an8:uary, Ezelz 4·7· Which at their firft rifing,'Yere but up t o rhe Ankles; but a little further were up to the knees,- a little fttrt her they were up to the Loins, and at length they . , grew up to a great river,waters to fwin1 in,the bot– tom whereof could not be felt. -Iclmay be the wa– ters ofGrace doyet run low with thee,_a little Bar. will fiop,or turn the ftream;thcu art yet gottenbut to ankle Jeep, or knee deep, get thee on, fray nor, till thy ~pring become a River;,le~ every day,every , Duty, eve·ry experience, ' yea, every affi. ·8iotJ, add to thy fireams ; th ~ t as the acceffion of every litdc book to the ma in Ch~u r1el, raifes the ~..vater ~s ic paffes along, fo it may be with thy Soul _; that the .farther thou goeft on, the fuller thy Bar:k~ may be, till .thou con1eft to be like Jordan in t~~ flaJ'veft, whofe waters fill all its banks. To quic.ken thee ou , i n this growth in Grace, confider. J, That /
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