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Chap.z. Sect.
I.
Looking unto :jtfus.
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' We look.. not at the things rvhi.;h are fern , but at the things which
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4
:s
are not feen,
faith
Paul.
A Chrifiians aime is beyond vifible
1
ot,
'
t'hings .,
0
when a foul comes to know what an eternal God is ,
and what an eternal Jefus is, and what an eternal Crown is;
when it knowstbat great defi.gne ofChrift to fave poor foules,
and to communicate himfelfeternally to fuch poor creatures,this
takes offthe edge ofits deGres as to viGblc temporal things, what
are they in comparifon?
.
But what things are they
~e-
muft
lo.o~
off
_in
this refpeet
?
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r.
~cjiiorr.
anfwer. --
1.
Good thtngs
2..J:::.v1l thmgs.
.
1.
Good things. The Apofi:le tells.us of
a cloud of witnef[es
in the former verfe, which no quefl:ion in their feafon we are to
loolvmto.
But when this fecond objeCt com'es in fight, he feat–
ters the cloud quite, and fets up
refru
himfelf; now the Apollle
willeth us
clrpapi£y
to turn our eyes from them, and to turn them
hither to Jefus Chrift.
q.
d.
Jfyou· will indeed fee -a fight once
for all, look to him, the Saints though they be guides to
us~
yet
are they but followers to him ; he is the arch-guide, the leader
of
them, and ofus all,
look__on him.
There is a ttme when
[ames
..
may fay,
t.Ik! my brethren
the Prophets who have fpokjn in the
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V
1
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Name ofthe L ord for an example;
but when Jefuscomes forth,
Zach.
2.,
13 ,
that fai'd,
I have given ycuan example,
an example above all
examples, then
bejilent 0 all flefb before the Lord.
Let a!! Saint$
and
Seraphims
then
cover their j11ces with their rrings,
that we may
look.,on {efus,
and let a!Lother fights
go.
·,
~
r. In
general.
2.
Evil things, •
2 .
In
fpecial. ·
.....
'
I.
In &eneral, we muft look off all thiogsthat 'are on this fide' ·
Jcfus Chnfi, and fo, fo much the rather, ifthey be evil things; in ·
a
word, we
mufr
look ofall fdf whether it be finful
felf
or natu–
ral
felf,
or
religious felf, in this'cafe ive mufl:.draw our eyes off all
thefe things. _
2.
In fpecial we muft look
off
all that
i,-
in the world·
and that
the Apofilecomprizeth under three heads;
the
l~tfts
of
the
eyes,the
•
John
z.16
btjfs
ofthe f/.efb,
~tnd
the pride cf life; (
r.)
Pleafutes, Profits, and
~onours.
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