Chap.z.Seet.z ·Looking unto 1efm, Booic IV,Parc.4 767 own faith. isthere not too much ofThomM's incredulity in thy brdl:? dofr thou not fometim<'s feele .fome doubtings ofCbrill:s riflng? or at !~aft doft thou. not quefl:10n whet~er Chritl:s re_furrection belongs unto thee? 1s not Satan bufie With a temptat 1on? is not thy confcier.!Ce troubled for thy fins; and efpecially for thy fin ofunbelief? iffo, (and I know ;not but It may be fo with thee, and the bell ofSaints) come then~ and reach hither thy ftn,r;er~ and behold Chrifos hand;; and rNich hHher thy hand, and thrujf it into hi& fide; my meaning is, come wit~J the hatJd of faith, and Jay hold on Chrift, yea hyde thy fe!fe In the holes of the rock; be liks the dove that mak.Jth her nefl sn zhefide of the ho(eJ mouth. Jer,:0.8 . lg. the dove that would be fafe from the devouring birds, or fro~ the fotllers fnare, ilie flyes to the hole in a rock; and thus Chrifl: invites his Spoule, 0 my dove that art in the cleftJ of 1 he reck_, in the fee ret places of the flP1yes ! let me (ee thy conntenance, . let me Cane.:, 14 , heare'% vo'Jce. In the clefts of the rock I am fafe, ( fa1d Ber-.., . s 6 . h .<>CY, cr. I, t1l nard) t ere I j/11.nd jirmely, t er_e! am fec~re from SatanJ prey. It..,cJnt. is £l:oryed of a martyr, that wnt1ng to h1s W1fe where 1he might finde him, when he was fled fr~m home; 0 my de are (faid he) suri~U ; 11 viu if th9# drfirtH t~fee me,(eeftmetn thefide ofChrift, in the cleft of Sa11Cfi Elr.earij the rock_, in the hollow ofhu wotmds, for there h.:ve I made my nefl, there will I dwell, theN foalt thou ftnde me, tlnd 11~ wheredfe but th~re. 0 my foul, that thou wouldft make this ufe of the wounds ofChrift ! are they not as the cities ofrefuge, whither tho!.l mayfl: fly and live? nothing is more ejficuciom to cure the B . 'b'd 1 ,/! r · h fi d (i · d' . (Y 4 , t I , woun.:11 o 1 col3jctence, t .an 11 requent an tnous me 1tatron of the - woundJ of (hrifl. <_=orne, be not fatt hletfe, but beleeving; thefe monuments of Chn£l:s r.efurrecbon are for the confirmation of thy faith; if well viewed an.i handled, they will quiet thy confcience , quench the fiery dam of Satan, increafe thy faith till thou comeft to aifurance, and fa yell with Thorn,u, my L ord and mJ God. I m:ry be troubld, blit 1 flu!/ not be overwhelmed. hect~ufe 1 Turbabor, fed will rem·mber t he print ofthe n.tyles, and</the fi'e.~re /n the hnnr', 11017 perlturbJb~r . • Y • a ~" qu avu ncmm ,mJ.fideofTrfru ~hrift . . . . cbriftircmda~ . .4· !"!uf o.n !us appmt10n to the feaven Dtfcipl.es at tbe fea of bar, Aug. TtbmM. . F1rft, Chntl: appe1 r~s, and works a mmtcle; he difcovers h1mfelfe to b ~ Lord of fea as well as land; at his word - multitudc:s.of~fhe~ comet? •he net, and are caught by his Apo- · files; nor JS th1s m1nde Without a myfrery; the Kingdome of hea- Mat, r 3 . 47~' .'. i vm, , :- .
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