Chap.5.Secb Luo.king tmto !fefus. Book IV. tion, adoption, regeneration , fanctification, glorification; 0 then fix thy foul at leaft on fome of thefe flowers, and leave Chern not without carrying forne bony away with thee ; ifthou art in Chrift thou art baptized into his death, and baptized into bis b>ptifrne; thQL! partakeft of the fruit and efficacy both of his .death, and life, and baptifme, and all. 471 3. Confider the fafting and temptation of Chrift in the wilderneffe. Now we fee what maimer of adverfary we have, how he fights, how he is relifted, ,how overcome; in one affault Sathan moves Chrift to doubt of his Fathers providence, in another to prefurne on his Father~ protection, and when neither diffidence nor prefumption can fallen upon Chrift~ he ibal! be tryecl with honour : and thus he deales with us; if he cannot drive us down. to defpaire, he labours to life us up to prefurnption, and if neither ofthefe prevaile, then he bring> out pleafures, profits, honours,_ temptations on the right hand, which are indeed moft qangerous : 0 my foul, whilft thou art in this warfare, here's thy .condition; temptations, like waves, break one in the neck of another ; if the devil was fo bufie with Chrift, how ibouldft thou hope to be free? bow mayft thou account, that the repulJe of one temptation will but invite to another? well, but here's thy comfort, thou hail fuch a Saviour as was in all things tempted in Heb. 4· 1 S,,xtf~ lik§ fort,yet without (in; how boldly therefore 11Ja]H thou go to the throne ofgrace to receive mercy, and to find~ grace of help in time ~f need ? Chrift was tempted that he might fuccour them that are tempted; never att thou tempted 0 my foul, but Chrifl: is with thee in the temptation 1 he hath fent his Spirit into thy heart tomake interceffion for thee there, and he hirnfelfe is in heaven. making interceffion and praying for thee there; yea his own, experience of temptations hath fo wrought it in his heart,_ that_ his love and mercy is rnoft of all at work when thou art tempted moft. As deare Parents are ever tender of their children, but_ then efpecia!ly when they are lick, and weak, and out offrame ;. fo though Chrift be alwayes tender of his peo'ple, yet then efpeciallywhen thm fo uls are lick, and under a temptation . Oh then, his bowels yerne over them indeed. ' 4· Confid er Chri_fts ~rft manifeflations by his feveral witneffes; we have heard of hts Wttneffes from heaven, the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghofr; and of hi$ witneffeson earth, the Bapttft , his. - -- - - - - Difriples 9 ,
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