Chap.s .Secr.s Looking unto 1ifm, Booic IV• Chrift in his feveral aetings have fet himfelfe before thee as the objed: of admiration, adoratton, belecfc, and obedience, if he had· not meant to own thee, and to be owned by thee ? would Chrift ever have come fo neare to thee, as to have lived in thee, to have 493 · been the foul of thy foul, and the life.of thy ltfe, the all of thy enderftanding and will ; imaginations and affections ; duties and ferviw; if he had not purpofed to have faved thee by hu Life ? 1 Surely it u g~od th11t I both hope, 11nrf quietly wait for the fall'ation ~om. f : 10 • of qod. I cannot hope in vaine if thefe be the grounds of my uB. 3· 1 6. hope. --~- __ __, _ --------- SECT. So· of be/eeving in [efus in that reJPeCf . 5. LEt us bcleeve in 1rfm carrying on the great work ofout' falvation in his life. Many fouls {land a loofe, not daring to make a particular application of Chrift and his life to themfelves; but herein is the property offaich,it brings all home, and makes ufe of whatfoever Chrift is, or does for it felfe. To ponder Chrifts actions during his life, and the influence of his actions to all that are hi5, what is this to me unlefTe I beleeve my own part in all this? ObI dare not beieeve ( cryes many a.poore foul) u it credible that 'fe[us Chrift the Sonne of God, the brightneffe ofhu Fathers glorJ, the expref[e ir1111geof hu Fathers perfon, fhoutd be incarnate for me, and /eade {uch a life upon earth for my foul? wht~t ? to be bapti;;:.ea, . to be temp;ed, to manifeft· himfl/fe in the forme of man, to whip the buyers and filters out of his Temple, te preach up and dswn the Gef}el of the Kingdome, to worlz. .miracles 11mong men, to fend abroad his Apo ~ln wirb a commi!fion N preach, to invite jinners, to rafe the burthen of duties, and in a.word to pubJi.jh the righte~ufneffe ofhis nature,qnd life;andall this, & a thoufand · times more thfln all this for my foul? 0 what am I? or what is my F;zthers holl[e? ifGodjbou/d let me live ,oneyeare in heaven, it were infinite mercy ; but th.~t the God of heaven jhould live fo mimJ years $n eArth, and that ali that while be jhould empty himfelfe, in .w;~tchRrr 3 , · ing, ,
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