Cbap.z .Seet 6. Lookingzmto:Je[U!. Book.IV. Part.VI. 99.1 let us roll our felves, or caft our [elves, upon the very interceffion ofJefus Chrift. Saying, 0 mJ ChrijJ, there i1 enough in thee, 11t1d in thi1gloriouJ interce.flion of thine, 11nd therefore there will I flick, a11d nbide for ever. 4. Faith muft ever and anon be trying·; improving, wreftJing with God, that vertue may go out of Chrifts inter~effion into our heuts. " I have heard Lord that there isan office c- ,, rected in heaven, that Chrift as Prieft iliould be ever praying, " and interceding for his people; 0 that I may feele the efficacy " ofChrifts interceffion 1 am I now in prayer? 0 that I could. ' ' feele in this prayer the warmth, and heat, and fpiritual fire , &' which ufually falls down from thrifts interccffion 'into the ' ' hems of his 1 Lordwarme my Spirit in this duty; give me " the ki!fcs of thy mouth, 0 thatI may now have communion ••· with thee· tl.ly Spirit up-on me, thy protc:Cl:ion over me! 0 " that my p;rdon may be {ealed, my grace confirmed, my foul. " faved in the day ofJefus! In this method, 0 my foul follow on,; and who knowes but God may appear e•re thou art aware? howfocver be. thou in the ufe of the.meanes, and leavc the iffue with God. --------------------- SEcT.6.. of f,ving 'fefmin thttt rejpe[f, 6. lEt us, love '1-efm· as carrying on thisgreatwork- ofonr.fa!~. , vation in his-interteffion. Now two things more e~ fpeci~lly will excite our love. 1. Chrills love to us. 2. Our propriety in Chrift. for the firft,.,many aCl:s ofChriils love have. appeared before, and every one is fufficient to draw.our lov-es to him again As .--- . x. He had an.eternallove to .man; he feafted· himfelf on the thoughts of love, delight, and fre~-grac.e to man ·from al l ete:r.:. nity ·, lince God was'God ( 0 bound.Je!fe duration ) the Lord Jefus in a manner was loving and lQnging for the dawning of the day of the Creation; he was ( as it were ) with chi ide of infiuitelov;e ~oman before he made the world. Some obferve, that - · -- · ·· · the
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