798 Book. IV Part.4. Looking unto 1-efus. C)lap. 2 .Sea.7 I might thus go on to confider other paffi!ges in other apparitions, but are not thefe enow to draw thy love ? oh what love was this ! oh what humility was this l that Chrift after his refurret'Hon fuould converfe with men during the fpace of fourty dayes? worthy he was after fo many forrows, fufferings, rea proaches, after fo cruel, ignominious, and bitter a death imme· .diately to have rid his tryumph to glory; An~ for the confirmation of his Difciples faith, he might have commanded the Angels to have preached his refurreCtion ; oh no, he himfelfe would £l:ay in perfon, he himfdfe would make it out by many iQ,- fallible proofes that he was rifen againe ; he himfelfe would •by his own example learne U! a le!fon of love, of me~~ neffe , of patience, in waiting after f~Jfferings for the re: ward• •. : Methinks a few of thefe paffages tbould fet all our hearts on a • , • flame of love; we love l!311th, and -earthly things; we dig into the veines ofthe ear-th for thick cl$y ; but if C..Qrift be rifen Jet your affections on things above, an4 1.10t M things olfl thee.trth. Olt ·Colof.3 . r, :. if the loveofChrift were but in us, JLS the love of the .wCi>rL4 is io 6afe worldlings, it would make,us w~ o1ly to _d.efpifc this.wprJd, it would make us to forget it, as worldlyJove 111!1J<es a ~n to for - get his God; .nay,it would befoJ.lrong andaJ;gent, an4 !l;OOted ~ in ourfouls, that we fhould not be able voluntarily and fre~ly to think on any thing elfe but Jefus Chr,ift; we fuould not then fcare contempt, or care for difgrace, or the r~pi:oaches pf men ; .~ we fhould not then feare dea~h, or th~ grav~. 9J.hC:.l11 or dev\l~i , butwe fhouldfing in tryumph 0 dettth, w.her-e i.r thy ftiFgJ '(! I Cor. I s.sr, t,ravewhere u thy vitlory ?~mw i:.httnk.f be <to God , wh'i~h '$._i'Y,~th S7• m viflorJ tprough {efm Chri.ft 'ur Lord. ________,__ ..,....,__,....,....--=---~;; ' · ·~ ·-- r •' • 1' ) . ' J ' ofjr-yi-ng in Jef us in t'b.llt refpe(l. '7· LEtu.sjoyin7ef1#, ascarrying on theg~p,t wo,r~ofogr . f~lvation for lis in his refurreel:ion, Thi5 is;thegreat ~el duty, wdhould r~l}.yce: in the Lord, apd flt,aine.refoyce; JCP2
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