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I
Book.
I.
Looking unto :jefus.
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chap.z.secb~
fing by, and therefore they were willed co come forth of their
doores: even fo , if we will behold the great King,Jefus Chrift ,
/ in his moft excellent glory (a fight able to fatisfie the eye, and
to ravi!h the heart) we mufl: come out of our doors, we muft
come out ofour felves , otherwife we cannot fee his glory. we
, are in onr felves !hut up in a dark dungeon , and
therefor~
we
are called upon to come forth into the clear light offaith, and
with the eyes offaith to behold in daily meditation the glory of
Chrifl: Jefus.
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SECT. II.
.An Exhortation
tg
look offaU otbertbings.
O
Ne word ofExhortation. ...(:hrifiians!
I
befeech you
look_
off
~1l
other things , efpeciaHy all evil things.
I 'know
1
am pleading with you for an hard thing ; I had need of the Rhe–
torick ofan Angel to perfwade you to turn your eyes from off
thefe things; nay, ifi had, all were too little ;
it
is Gud
~only
muft perfwade {aphet
ro
dwell in the tents
of
Shrm ;
and yet let
me offer a few confiderations,venture at a perfwading of)(OU,artd
leave the iffue with
God:
· r.
Confider that all other evil things are in
Gods1
account as
very nothing;
verily, every man at hi.· brft efl:ate
u
altotJthir va–
nity;
not only man, but
every man;
nor every man in his worft
condition , but
every
man
at his beft rftnte;
nor every mah at his
heft dtate is littleworth, but every rnan at his beHetl:ate
u
v.t'..
nity, emptineffe, IJothil'l;'f. ;
it may be
f~
in part, nay, but in every
part, he is wholly, totally,
altogether vanity;
would any man
think, that a great, rich, honourable man , whom we look upon
with fuchhigh ad!T)iring though ts , !hould be laid thus low in
Gods efl:eeme? 0 wonder,wonder! and yet 'tis no fuch wonder,
but one day you !hall finde the experience of this truth your
fel ves.
Richmen have jlept their fleeps , and none
of
the men
of
might hav e
f ormd their
hands,
or asothers render
it,
they have
found nothing in their hands;
that is, rich men l1ave patTed over
.
·
'
,
this