Bcok.lll. Looking unto 1efus. Cbap. 1. Sect 6 and f~e the fruits and effeC!:s of this Law written in our hearts. Ani! good reafon ,forwherefoever God workes the principles of grace within , it cannot but fuew it felfin the outward life and k 6 'Converfation: its Gods promife , firft, I will put mv Spirit wirhin E1.c ·3 • ~7. .1 .MJt. 12 • 34 • . them, and the~ I will caufe them ro walk)n my ftarutes, and it is 1'f.~i.6 ~1.16.17 'Gods truth , Mt of the abund11nce of the heart the mouth jpeakph. W bat the mind thinketh,the hand work.eth. 3. the Law is written that it may be legiblet? our felv:s? ~ gr~cious hear·t is privy to its own grace and £ince~1ty when It ISm a nght temper: if 0 • tl:ters may read it by its fruitS, how much more we our fclves who both fee the fruits,and feele that habitual difpofition intufed into us? nor is this without its ble!fed ufe, for by this meanes we come to have a comfortable evidence both ofGods love co us and of o~r love to_Go_d. You fee now what we mean by this wri~ ting of tlie Law w!thm us. , 5. How are we taught ~f God,fo as noc co need any other kind ofteaching comparatively? Ianfwer.-- , 1. God ccacheth inwardly , in the hidden part th~u haft made me k_now wifdome, faithDavid; !lndagain, I thank_ the Lord that gatJe me counfel, mJ reinu alfo inftruCl me in the night-feafon. The reines are the J?Oft inward. part 0~ the body, and the nightfeaiOn the moil ret1red, and pnvate .time; both expreife the intimacy ofdivine teaching ; man may teach the braines , but God onefy teacheth the reines; the knO\yledge which man teJcheth is a fwimming knowledge : but the knowledge which God tearheth is a foaking knowledge. qod who commanded light to jhine out Df dark_nef[e, h;~th fbined into our hearu ; mans light may lbine into , . tlae head,but Gods light doth fuine into the hearr; his chaire is in eathtdramiJa• h hh f · h A .n · b · r ·};eaven that reac et eart s, a1t up 1n. ,;;;:;:,~~1:~ 2 . God teach~th dearely; E~ihu offering himfelf infle<id of God1io reafon With job ,he tel-ls h1m , my words /ball be cf the upJob.3 3 3· rightneJ!e of my he11rt,tmdmy,/ips/ball utter /zyowledge clearefJ. If ever theword come home to an bearr,it comes with a convincing ~ Tbef,J, f• deareneffe.. .So the Apoftle, .cur Go[pel came unto you, not in ~ord gnefy, buPm po~er, and•in the H&IJ qhoft, and in much [Hll 11f[urance. The· word hath a- treble Emphafis , a!f-urance, full a{furance , and Il1Uch full .affura11ee ; here's cleare work. • 2. God teachethexP.ffjmentaily ~ the foule that i-staught of "' · · God
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