,Do8. z. Book .I. Looking unto 1efus. SECT. II. The (II .tin DoCfrine 1111d c~njrmatio1i of it. BUt for the foundation of our building take this Note.-- INwArd experimental lookJng unto Je(m, f~tch as flirru up ajfeClions in the heart, and the effet1s thereof in our life, it is an Qrdinance of Chri.ft; a choice, ~tn high GofPel-Ordinance. Or thus, Jnward,e.:~.·perimental kztowing,conjidering,de(iring, hoping, beleeving, lsving, joying, c111/ing 9n 'fefm, and conforming to [efm, it is a e~mplicate , foulded, compoHnded Ordinance of refm Ch7ifl. I need not much to explaine the Point , you fee here is an ·Ordinance , or a Cjofpe/-duty held forth ; many other duties we have elfewhere defCrihed, but this we have kept for this plate· and theratherforthat thisis a choiceduty,a compounded duty' .an high qoJPel·Ordinance. No qudrion fiut watchfulnej]e, (eli trial, Self-denial, Experiences, Evidences, Meditation, Life of faith, &c. dwell in their place and order ; yet as oars in a boat, .(though it be carried with the tyde) may help it to go fafier; it is {cfm lifted up, (as Mifes lifted up ihe Serpent) which firikes .more foundly into the beholder, then any other way. Luokjng ·" 'I ground this unto {efm ~s that great Ordinance app?inted by God for our .on all the mm moft efpwal good. How ·many fouls have buried themfelves ,joyntly, as on in the ufe ofi:>ther meanes, and though in them Chrifi hath If. 45. ~.~. Ih. communicated fome vercue to them , yet becaufe they did not 6p. M:ca 7.'7 d . hh' h h d1' I . ·r. ' fi h Zach . r~.r~ tra emorew1t. 1m, t. ey a , m.emcompan~onr uc :lone Numb :t.S as deales immediately With Chnfi w11! do more m a day, then John 3· H. another in a yeare, and therefore I call it <1 choice, a compledt, Heb.u.~.Phil. a camplicate,an highGofpei-Ordimmce.Now what thisOrdinance is, 3·8~~·. :Cor.3 'the text tells you,it is r~lo~kjng unto 'fcfiu. J .... at.I .li, J . h b'.a. d'J,r, * 'J,f h. &c. 1. efHJ IS t e o JC<.l ; an 1 eJ m as 1 e; m , as e 1s our Saviour,
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