-------------~------------------- ~h:tp. 5 .Seer.~. L eoking ttn.to {efiu. tion : that it inflames our love, Oh how love I thy l~w .? it i-s my meditation all the day; that it cafts a fweet influence on our Jives, vcr. 97· ]will meditate in thy precepts, and have rejj;eU unto th] waps; ver. t )· what? is it thus with thee.? canft thou fay with David, my rnedi- P ra ~. to~. H· tatioN of him [halt be fweet? and in the multitude of my thoughts PfHm 9+- 1 9• within me,thy o&mforts exceedingly delight my foul? why then thou haft truely rafted ofGods goodne!fe, thou haft actual difcoveries of the fweetnelfe ofGods wayes; thou haft experienc'c ~atdl . 1 1 · ~0• chis truth, that hio ygak.§'u eafie, and hu_burthen u light; that hi.r rov. 3· 17' wayes are wayes of plea(antne(s and all his paths ttre peace. Oh if men did but know whatravithing fweetne!fe were in the wayes of God, they could not but embrace them, and efteem one dayes (cciety with {efm {hriH (as Caracciolus did) better than all the gold in the world. I r. Confider the holine!feofChriO:snature, and the holine!fe ofChrifts life. 1. For the holi ne!fe of his nature if thou couldft but cl~arly fee it, what work would it make in thy breft .? Chrifts inward beauty would rav.ifh love out of the devils, if they had bu.t grace to fee his beauty ; yea, he would lead captive all hearts in hell, if they had but eyes to behold his loveline!fe. 0 whtJt a flower ? what a rofe or love and light is the LorJ Jefus C hritl: ? my bdovrd is white and ruddy, faid the Spoufc, the chifjeft ~(' tm C . 1 thoufemd,-. Summon before Chrifr , faire Angels,glorified fpirits, ~ r. t. f • 1 o. the azure heavens, the lighrlome ftarres,all te~ deli-ciou ' flowers, gardem, meadows, fonefts, feas, mountaines, birds, beafis, yea and all the fons ofmen, as they fhould have been in the wmld of innocency, and let thrm ali fhnd in thei r highell exce!!ency b~tore Jefus Cbdi:, and what are they f the Saints in glory now fer the fac·e of Chri(/-; (i.) they fee ali the dignity, bi:'Ruty, that is in Chrifr; and they are fo taken with his fight, that they do nothing R~v. u. 4• elfe but fl are·, and gaze , and behold hts face for age~, ard yet they are never faris iiedwith beholding; fuppofe they could weare out their eyes at the eye-holes in beholding Chrifl:, theyfho ·Jld fiill dellre to fe._. more. 0 thislovcline!fe of Chrifi rav1fhes the fouls of rhe r Io ri f: ed, bow is it 0 my foul that thou art not taken with this meditation <' Bur, 2. Go from the holineffe of h:s nature, to the hol!nefl'e of his life, it maybe that will make de10p imprdlions on thy fpirit ; conllder his charity, bis fdfe - d~F:ia!; his contempt of theworld, hismercy, h:scounty, hismeekQ.q q ndfe,
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