-------------------------------------------~·------- Book IV. Looking unto :feftll, Chap.5 .Sect. 6 defcription enflamed the daughters_of rerufalem: fo t(> aa: our loves towards the Lord J efus Chrift, take we a copy of the record of the Spirit-in Scriptures; fee what they fay of Chri£1:'; this was his own·advice fearch the Scriptures, f or-they are they which . teflifie of me. - 0 my foul much hath been faid to perfwade thee to faith ; and ifnow thou beleeveft thy part in thofe feveral aCl:ings of Chriil:, why let thy faith take thee by the hand, and lead thee from one ftep to another; from his baptifme to his temptations, from his temptations, to his manifeftations ; and fo on; is not here fuel enough for love to feed upon? canft thou reade the hiftory of love ( for fuch is the hiftory of Chrifts life) and not be all on a flame? come, reade againe ! there is nothing in hrift but-tis lovely, winning, and drawing; as--- r. When he faw thee full of filth , he goes down into the waters of baptifme, that he might prepare a way for the deanGng of thy defiled and polluted foul. i. When he faw the devil ready to fwallow thee up, or by his baites to draw and dragge thy foul down to hell, he himfelfe enters into the lift with the devil , and he overcomes him, that thou mighttft overcome, and tryumph with hrifi in bisglory. . _3. When he faw thee in danger ofdeath through thy own un· belief, for (except thoufawefl in his hands the print of the nayles, and pP1 t t hy fi nf_er into the print of the nayles; except thou hadft cleare manifeftations of Chrifr even to thine own fenfe thou wouldfr not beleeve) he condefcends fo far to fuccour thyweakne!fe, as to manifefr himfelfe by feveral witne!fes; three in heaven and three on earth ; yea he multi plies' his three on earth to thou(ands of thoufands ; fo many were the fignes witneffing Chrifr , that the difciple which tefrified of them could fay, if they fhoul'd bewritten every one, the wot'/d could not containe the book.! thut fhould be written. . 4· Whenhe faw the buying and felling in the Temple, yea making merchandizeoft he temple it felfe, I meane of thy foul , which is theTemple of the holy Ghoft; he freps in to whip out thofe buyersand fellers, tbofe lufis and corruptions : 0 ( cryes he) willyeu fell aw,ly your {o11ls for tra{h ! 0 what i.r a manprofited thMgh hegaine the whole world and ioofe his own foull 5· When
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