Chap. z .Sect.3 L6oking unto !fefus. Book IV. Part.4. 76~ rydingin tryumph, I wouid fing Rofam:a to thee, but if in glory, how happy (hou!d I be to look_up8n thee ? Chrifrs a ppar;ttons are ~a vi {h. ing lights; if he but frand on thdhore, P,m· threws ht!'nfdfe over board to come to Chrifr; why now he fra'lds on rhe pimtcles of heaven, wafting ~nd beckoning with his hand, a;:h! c<.lling on me in his Word, rife up my love, mj faire une,.mdcorm .. wa;; 0 Cant. 1 , IQ; my foul make hafre; in every duty look out tor another ap?aritton of Jeflls Chrifr, when thou co eft n •i1eare, fay, h,~ve over L ord by thu Serrmn, and when thou wmdl: to pray , fay, have over L ord by thu prayer to a Savir,Nr; neither fire nor water; floods, nor frormes; death, nor life; principalityes nor powers; height nor depth ; nor any other creature (bould hinder thy paffage to Chrifr, or feparate thy foul from Chrifr. Co!Jfider whnt I {II} (faith Paul) and the Lordgive thee under.ftanding in all z Tim.:. 7 .~ thingl; remember that 74us Chriftofthe (eedof Davidw.uraifed from the dead accor'ding to my Gofpef: that Cbrift was raifed is a Gofpel truth; ay, but do thou remember it ; do thou confider it , and the Lord give thee underftanding in aU things. ........,_.. _______________ SECT. ·3· 0{ defiring 'lrfm in that refpeEt. 3· LEt us dejireafter Jefm carrying onthe great work of our falvation tor us in his refurrecbon. What defi~·e is, we have opened before l fome call it the wing of thefoeti, whereby it moveth, and u carryed to the thing it expeCleth, to feed it felfe upon it, ;~nd to be jttt i,fied with it. But what is there in Chrifrs refurredion, that fhould move our fuuls to deure after it ? I anfwer. 1. Something in it felfe. 2. Something as i.n reference unto us. . r. There is fomething in it felfe; had we but a veiw of the glory. dignity, excellency of Chrift as raifed from the dead it wpuld put us on this heavenly motion, we fhould fiJ M the E~gle th11t hafteth to eat e. Theobjed of defire is good, but the more Heb,t s. · F f ff £ excellent
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