5 30 Book. IV. Lsoking u~to :Jefus. chap. s. sect 9 - - ----~-------------------------- And duds ? would he be thuJ difPoftd as I nvw fule m] Jelfe ? woHld he fJca~ theft wordJ thnt I am now uttering ! would he do this that I nm now putting my hand unto ? 0 let me not yeild my felfe to any thought, word, or aElion ·, wbich mJ deare Jefus would be t~foamed to own ! yea (if it were poffible for thee to be fo conftant in this ble!fed duty) going , and ftanding , ficting and lying, eatjng and drinking, fpeaking and hoMing thy peace, by thy felfe or in company caft an eye upon Jefus : for by this meane:; thou canfi no~ choofe but love him more, and joy in him more, and truft in him more, and be · more and more familiar With him, and draw more and more grace and vertue, and fweetne!fe from him ; 0 let this be thy wifedome, to think much of Chrift ; fo as to 'Provoke t11ee to ·the imitation o"f C.hrift ! then fualc thou learne to contemne the world, to do good to all, to injure no man, to fuffer wrong patiently, yea co pray for all thofe chat defpitefully ufe thee , and perfecute thee, then fualt thou learne to condefcend t'O the weak, to condole finner~ c2fes, to embrace the penitent , to obey fuperiours, to miniller to all ; then fhak thou learne to avoid all boafiing, bragging, fcandal", immoderate eating and drinking , in a word alt finne. Then fualt thou learne to belilre about in th] body the d;int ~J our Lora r efu.~ Chriff, that th~ life 4/[o of Jtfus mlily be mdde mt~nifrft. in thy body : So the Apoftle, fo r- we which live al'e alwn;rs dd"vercd 11nt~ 4e~~tb for fefws falze , thnt the lif e alfo of 'f efus might be made manifrft in our murtal flefo, 2 Connthians 4· 1 o, 1 1. Why this is to follow Chrifts ft ep• , he defcended from heaven to earth for thy fake, do thou trample on ear lhly things, feek fljter ihe Kin_fdrme of God anq his righteQu[nrf{e , fur thy own fake ; th0ugh ~he world be fwl"et, )"Ct Chrifi i~ fweefer ;· though the wor~d· prove b.tter , yet ( hrdl fd'hined the bitterne!fe of it for thee . and now he fpe.>ks to thee, as he did to Pew·, A~drew, rames, and '1 r,hn, Ccme, jdhw me; 0 do nor · faint in ~he way, lt'H thou tofe thy p-lace in thy S:ountry, that King• 4.ome of{?lcry. Thus
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