786 Bo0k.IV. Part.4. Looking unto. fefus. Chap.z . Sect. \ ai'e•a'll thy dutye~ more frirltual ?- ·are, thy ends more raifed to a-yin~ at Go~, to fandifie him, and to <:\ebafe t ' y felfe? art thou moteroottd inChrH.H in all thy duries, graces and g:racioui a dings, I:! aft thou <!ea rQ~ ~ habitually to f-ay, I live, yet nor I, but [hrift (~th 'in ,rrie? :Jolt th~ imercft Chri~ more and '!Ilorein all thou dt>ft! ? ' doft•ttou know a•l'ld affeet Chr~ft more ancl meire ?- Oh whim wolli~h!.Oambitious ~::ourtier be wet?ry of being graeed by his Prin€e ?J_ When~would· a \Vorld!ihg be weary of having the world .come ·in upon him < why fhouldft thou 0 my foul b,!! weary..of inftn~afing·thy felfe by faith ana atfeebon int-o Chrift ? idrrre, (e~ch, VY·; '!tmay·be ltt'tle.winds have formerly fuaken dfce?but fu it is,that iilf~nfi :, Jy, and thou knQWCft not how, thy root is il'ruck 1ower and. lower into Chrift, and now thou art not fo fonn ihaken with every winde; furely thy hope is wellgrounded; ~hoJl haft a·p·art in Cbrifts refurredion; it is thine, e·yen t~ine. ~ .,; , · · ·, ----~-----------------------------·~ . ~E.CT·5· Of #eleevtng in 'fefP!J in that rejpeCl. 5· LEtusbeleevein 'fefus as carrying on the great work of · ourfalvation for us in hts refu• reel:t· •n. This is one ~aine article ofotir faith,, the third day he rofP againe from rhe dead, and this flOW I propound as th!! object oi our' faith; 0 let ils bel~eve it, lcr u~ b.,.t·eve our part and' intereft in it. And to that purpofe let u•• loi:Y. <' nJefus as a common pcrfon; whatever con· · - fideration he p ~ ifo:-.: undf' t, it was. in our lread, and in that refpeel: we are to: t(k(JG our !elves asinarers w:ch him. Scrupu1ous fouls may object, Jsii p·'.!Jible tiittt Chrif /hvuldrife, and thac1/hiu/d rife wir h him, and in !Jim r iJ it poffible that Chrlft fhould aye M If comm'n per.fin fvr my Jim? and th11t Chrift jhou!d rije, ;~nd by his .rr(umaiun f/;ou ldbejt:jii6cd M a ~·ommon perfon in my roome? 0 the my{! ery ofthis redemptiw! >l'ith~nt contraverfte great is the myflery <{godlir~Ejfe, which is qod manifeHed in the flejh, jujfified in the Sp.iri : it u ., myfte: y beyond my fathoming, that Clrift, who i! god in :h, )rfb,fhould be juftified in the Spirit form] juftifiwion; - tha; ' ·
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