442 Book lV. Lcoking unto :feft:#s, Chap. 3.Seet.4 :~,Cor •. 5.10. {houid be no wari, no jars, no difcontents amongfr men. and if all me~ that ar_e called Chri~ians, were indeed charitable: peaceable, JUlt, lovmg, forbearmg one another, and forgiving one anot her, what fweet peace fhould we have? how would this world be an image of heaven, and of that fociery ofSaints and ,.A..ngds above in glory? . . 4- Chrifrian Religion affords to us all affiftances both outward :~.nd inward in fome refpe&s; 1 know the duties ofChrifiianity are hard and heavy, but w~1a~foev~r C~1ri!l hath impofed as heavy and hard, he hath made tt ltght tn atdes. I fhall fuew the helps in thde particulars. AsI. The holy Scriptures be our helps ; this was the very f.cope and aime for which the facred volume was fent from heaven, vi~. that we might dec:ine [rom evil ,. and do good.; that we ':llight die to old Adam, and ltve to ChnH; that we mtght crucitie fin and follow vertue; what are the Scriptures bm the Regifrers ot' Gods will, the l.etrers·ofGods love, to invite us to grace, and to dehort us from vice? 0 the perfwa!ions, liireCl:ions, and com· mands ofGod that we might become holy; and 0 the diffwaflons, diveruons, threatnings, and terrifying ofGod that we might fly prophanenefs! . 2. The Minifrers of Chrifi be our helps: thou hall the Scriptures, but it may be thou canfr not rea de, or thou canfl: not underlland the fenfe and meaning thereof; Chrifl: therefore for thy help l1ath fet up a minifrry for the edtfying of the body of Chrift. Thefe are the watchmen over the houfe of Ifr11el to cry like trumpets, and to blazon the fins of the houfe of If;-ael ; thefe are the fu itors of God and Chrift to fpeak out his goodwill in thine eares; they call, they cry, they waite, they wooe, they pray_you in Ch1ijl sftead thflt y·otJ will be reconciled unto God. . 3. Tile li ves of Saints be our helps; we have nor only teachers in word , but the Saints in all ages, 11s fo many !tars, have given us tight how to walJ..e in che darkne1Ce of this life. The examples of rh~godly are very dra':Ving, and rEuch for our imit<.tion, and then:fore the Pfalmtfl: bids us, mat /zq t h,~ perfrct man, and behold the t:prixi::t, f(r the end cf rh.'t mtm iJ pe;1ce. 0 its a bleifed help to a Chrifr,:mltfe ro read ovt"l' much more to marke, and o:ferve ~be holy and godly hves o; h~ ~t:in~s of God; how doth their zeale
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