Chap.z.Seel.4 Looking unto !fefm. Booic IV,Parr.4 783 ends . but a true Gofpel-love is from Chrift, and tends co the glory of chrift, for /Bve iJ of God; lind every me th~t lovrth iJ I Jo&." 7. borne ofGod, and k..,nowtth God. But how may we know that all our actings are out of love to Jefus Chrift ? I anfwer.- 1. If we act by the rule of Chrift. If }OM love me kfep my , commandments.·-He that hath my mnm11ndement1 aruJ k£tpeth Joh.r4. I r,n, them he it is that loveth me.---1{ rmy mm love me he will kfep my l3, lf, · com~11ndemtntJ. Hetbat lovesChrift,he will look upon every aCt, every fervice, cvet;Y performance , wheth_er ~t be according to the rule ofChnft, and then on he goes wtth tr. 2 • If we aCt to the honourofChrift; wemaypray, and heare ancl preach, and act fclfe more then the honour of Jefus Chrift. whiles Chrift {hewed miracles, and fed his fol19wers to the fuJi. they cryed up Jefus, and none like Jefus; but when chrift ~as plaine with them, ye feek... me, not 6ecauft ye fow the Job. 6,16 , miracln but becaufe ye did e11.te ofthe iM1HJ, and were filled; · · when he' prelfcd fincerity upon them,,and preparation for futferings,from th.o!t time vMnJ of hit Difciplu ·1wnt back.,, and wal/e!d ver. 66~ no more with him. Its no n~ws for men to fall off when their ends faile; only they that love Chrift look not at thefe outward . things in refpert of the honour of Jefus Chrift; and hence it is that in all their aetings they will carry on the deligne of the Fath ~o: r in ad~ancing the honour of the S{)n, whatever it coil them. 0 my foul apply this to thy felfe! if thou liveft the life o£ love, if in all thy acbngs,dutyes,fervices thou art carryed on with a principle of love to Jefus Chrift, it iu fure ligne of.thp·i. vification. For the fc:cond queftion, whether we enc;r.eafe and grO\JI in our Yivification .? we may difcover it thus.- 1 . We gr-ow when W!! are led on to the-exercife ofnew graces: this the Apofile calls adding of one ·grace unto another, Adde t~ your J.. ith vertue, nnd to v t rtue k...now!edgt, and tok.,nowledge tem- 1 Per:r; r,G,r.. perance, and to temperance p<~~t , mct ,and to p11tience godlinef{e, and to "' godlinr/Je !mtherly k,jndnef[e , and to brotherly kindnrfl'e ch<~~rit}.: At firft a Chnftian doth not excrcife all graces; thouoh habituJ ally all graces may be planted in him, yet the exercife"of them is not all at once, but by degrees, Thus the Church tells Chrifr at OHY gates are '1111 mlltmer.o[ p!eafont fruit.tf new and otd~ rwhicb i C't:!t· 7!• ~ h•l7!Q !.
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