Chap.z.Sed.7. Looklngunto1tfm. Book.lV. Parr.VI. 999 {wer to this cafe ? alas thou wouldll: be pitied for all thy weakneffes; why,know that'compallion is natural to Jefus ChriH; he is a merciful hish Priett, and can be no other to thee ; God ordained him to ofticiate in fudi a Tabernacle as wherein thou dwelleH·, he was in all things like ut1to thee, fin onely excepted; it may be thou art in want, and fo was Ch.riH:, he had rio ·houfe; thou art perfecuted; and fo was ChriH; f.nne loades thee, and fo it did Chritl. A Chri!lians condition needes cortlpailion , and ChriH knowes how much, and it is his work continually to lay it open above; " 0 my Father, thus, apd. thus it is with " the Militant Church, not a Member in ir, but he is undet " fume and affii.;Jion ; fee here the teare~, heatken to the Gghs, " and groanes, and chatterings, and mournings cf my Doves " below ; I prefent here their petfons and performances ; and " oh that they may fiade acceptance throu;h my merits ~ Some fpeak of heavens MuGck, fome tell us ofSaints and An.- . Pels fmgin,s and warbling in lively notes the praifes of Chrill: in . .!leaven ; and ifany fuch-thing be, cerrainly, it is eare-tickling, heart-ravifhing mulick; 0 the melody L 0 the joy of Saints to · hear fuch heavenly ayres\vith heavenly eares ! but be it as it will be, ofthis I am confident, that heaven it felfyidds no fuch . mufick as is the intercellion of _; efus Chrifl: ; this ( if any thing in heaven do it) makes melody in the eares ofGod, and of all celeftial Spirits, Saints or An3els; And ( 0 my foul) furpofe thy felf within the compaffe , ifnow thou couldft but heat what thy Jefus is faying in thy beha!fe; " Is not this a brand " newly pluckr out of the fire ? was not this poor f6ul but the " other day in· :t Hate ofnature, defiled with f:.nne, within ;b " ftep of heiJ ? and did not I fend m.y Spirit to recalJ him ~ " was Mt this precious blo()d fhed for the redemption Of him? · " and what thbugh imne aick.and cleave to him to this day, _ '"'· yet have I not given rhe charge to rake away his filthy gar• " ments from him , anci to cloath him with changes of ray... ... , " ment, even with the lbining robes ofmine own ri,;hteoui- . · <i neffe? 0 my Father, let this [l)ul · live in rhy fight! 0 call: " ·him nl)t away for whom I h1ve fuffered, and done all this ; " I cannot re;t fatisfied without hi> fociery, I am not right till · u he is with me in glory ; hds my darling, my purchafe, my ~' pmtion, my delight, .and cherefore..let him be Caved. Is not
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