C:~nt. 3. I~. Hcb. I. 14. Ifa. 30. a. Book.lV. Looking-unto :fe{us. Chap.3. Sed-4 fall into it if we continue in finne, it would be able ·to create feares greater than a fudden fire , or a mid-night a- ~~~ - . . 7 A principle oflove (wherefoever it is planted) is our help i be the yoake never [o unealie, yet love w;!l make it light; Solomon compares the efhue of the Church to a chariot, and it is defcnbed to have pillars qfji!ver, and a l>ottomeofgold, and a covering of pyrple, the midfl thereofbting paved with .Jove; a ll:range exprellion, that the midll: ofa chariot ihould be paved with love; but 'eis plaine, the chariot wherein Chrift carries his people up and down in the world, and brings them to.himfelfe, is fucha chariot as the midll: thereof is paved with love;, in'chis cafe if there were neither heaven, nor hell, . yet a foul would be in the duties of Chrifiianity. I remember how lve, Biihop of<. hartres, meeting a grave matron on the way with fire in one han~ and water in the other, he asked her what thofefymboles meant? and what ihe -meant to do with her fire and water? iheanfwered my f1trpofe is with the fir<' to burne P aradife, andwith the watrr to quench the flames of hell, that men ma7 ferve Gcd (faidfoe) u.·ithout the incentives ofhope andfeare, and purely for the love of God, and !je[w Chrift. Surely it was an high exprefiion ~ for my part I dare not feperate thofe things which God hath joyned together; only this I fay, that where true love is, there is an excellent help in our way heaven-wards. · 8. The Angells be our helps; they are mini.f1ring ffiirits, fent forth to mini/fer fur thrm who foal! be heires offolvation, Heb. I. I 4· - and the kind oftheir minill:ration is excellently fet forth by the Pfalmifi, they foa/l k_eep th ee in all thy wayes, they /hall beare thee up in their hands, leaft thou dafo thy foot agains1 d flone, Pfal. 91. 1 r , I 2 . in this 1 )lace-the Angels are compared to nurfes that have a .charge over weak children to keep them and guard them; fo the Angels do all the offices of .a nurfe, or mother, they keep us, guard us, inftruCl: us, admonifh us , correct us, comfort us, preferve ·us from evil, and provoke us to go~~· The motions, infpirations, bleffed influences of the Spirit of , Chrift be our bel ps ; many a time the Spirit cries, and calls on our hearts, faying, thu is the way walk_thtrein: as the evil fpirit, or devil in wicked men iscontinually moving, and inclining them to
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