4So Book. IV. L~okJng unto 1ef us. ~· .ap.5. Sect.l ------- - ------ -- ---- ·--- Nalm 40. S. t J oli. 5. ;. P,al.j~· 8, thoughts of Jefus Chrift, how can , they more· contradict the office of Chrift? how can they more contradict the Gofpeldefcription ofChrift, than to think him a deft royer of his creature~ , one that watchethJor their haltings, and one that hath mere mind to hurt,tban help them ? Away, away with aH prejudicare opinions! refolve 0 my foul to throw thy felfe on t1irn for life and for falvaticm: why,if thou wilt but come, be hath promifed freely to make thee welcome; all the day long he fireccheth out his armes, and would faine gather thee, and all others into' his fweet embraces. - 1 o. ConGder the erulinetle of his yoake, and the lightndfe of his burthen. Many a one is willing to take Jefus as their Saviour, but they are unwilling to take h:m on his own fweet termes; Oh they imagine it an hard taske, and an heavy burthen, who may endure it? it was otherwife with Chrill, I do delight to da thywi!LOmyCod; and tis otherwifewith Chriftians, forhu commandments are not grievoru,[airh {ohn; a11d therefore David calls on others to try this truth, Oh tajfq, and fee howgood the Lord is. It is fa id ofMafter Sanders,that a little before his death and martyrdome he cold his wife, that he had no riches to leave her, ACl. & mo'+. but that treafure oft a fling how fwm Chrift is to lmngry confciences \ fo!. 1361. Axdof that (faid he) as 1 feele fome part, and I would (eele mere, Jo I bequeath ic unto ther, and to the rrfl of my bt!oued in Chrifl. 0 my foul if thou canft but tafte, thou wilt finde a wodd offw~etneffe in Chrifts wayes; there is fwcetneffe in the Word,how fweet Ffa\.1 1 9· 1o3 . are thy W•rds to my tlljfe,_rea fwe fl:rr than hono to my mouth ? there is fweetnetfe in prayer, han thou not known the time that thou haft touched the hem ofChrifis garmenr, and rafted of rhe joyes of heaven in prayer? hafi thou not feen heaven cleft, and Chrifl: , [:nlng at Gods right hand ? furely theL rrd i1 richJo all them that ~,.,om . JO. 1 t. ~ odt upcn him. There is fweerneffe in meditation, fome call this very duty, t he Sai>~ts P"'fhne, yp/;icb rccrrliteJ Pnd perfumes the tyredJPiriu; now 0 my foul thou art in the exercife of this duty, now tbou art in the meditation of the Nt/in:Jfe of Chij!s burt.hen, :~nd of the fweetneffe of his wayes, tell me, is there nothing of heaven in this meditation ? is it fweet? or is it 'bitter co thy foul ? thou mayil: read in Scripture of many ai mirable effects of meditation, as that it confirme~ our knowledge; I h11ve mere ulfPfJl. t 19·99· derfl~t~ding than all my teachers, f or tLy teflimonio arf my mrdita~ . . ~:
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