JAI 2-3ó Chap.tò.. Gods. rnéfcy tofilch as love ;12,104'414dkeepl&c. Corn- fie. And lie makes it no little part ofpu:.ifhmxnr, when he withdraws his jealoufie from a people. Therefore this Mercy is promircd to thews that are jealous for hit-n. r Kings :9. Io. He is jealous for us, we fhould be jealous for him, We (hould fay with Else, zelo yc. hums furl, I have been very jealous for the Lord, zelarttes perius quam amantes , our P(aLn9.,39 c zgaf fgti,IFinkf]aouldgvgn,G r}dutne us,;tgiththe kingly Prophet. Now there is a fained I lo. 3 ta, and a,kr- lgvcyxt there, ore the Apoflle direéfs us to it which is the true, and gives j s, t -r.rs. a markg tt, Not n wotti but in deed and truth, what the deed is to be, we find by our Sav{ggr;,fPetet, , If re;love me,.,Iteep my Çornrriq¡ïdnlents, even the lime which God (peaks here. The afF4°tonof this lotve.is fern by the effects. God lets us fee hiy Mercy by the effedfs of it, which is faciens, by performing- it. So mull our love be InPtah dtfcpv'e<r0,by.keeping his Law. St. Ambrofe faith, eft .zclus ad vitam, & eft zelus ,td ° Yfe n atj- 7itarn . zelus a divingprice tofervare,& amen nominà a jas culiodire man. fCt44, lergs a zeal tp,lafe,. and à zeal to death, that to life is, when we obferve Gods Laws,4ndfor the loye,of hid. Name keep his Commandments. A true keeper is he, wtticlipreferveth thingseasefullywhich.are committed to his charge, God needs not our keeping,as;tye do,neçdhis, he is able to keep himfelf, but our love muff be (hewed tn,keepigg j.mamdakt,bisCommandments, 2, minimal iflos,his little ones; what wedo to, onoofAbem, he will account it as done to himfelf Mat. 25.45. And 3. we muff efleem them worth the keeping,as Daviddid Ppal. 1 19.10,72. The office ofa keeper is to preferve what is committed to him, that it be not loft, or call away, or broken, M,uth.5 r9. . but kept found, till his not-ping that gave it incharge, There's a heavy feneence in the rc4h. o -:kt 'Gófpel,againft the breakers of them. They mull not be contemned or cart behind us, K? 4 noç may,wç lofe, or forget Them, we mayYee Gods judgment againft Ahab, for the ,b4: 4' ,Frh lofs gf,them. `Wowwe (hall keep them the better, if we make a true ellimate of them. And ring Pull 15. Ds * tells us,they-are worth the having. They are more to bedelired than Gold {latth.he,) yea,_than átpch. fine Gold, and in keeping them there's great reward. Nay betells us they are better than.thoufands of Gold and Silver. Therefore we are Prov. 4 ar. ét4"keépsh.em fate; and carefully, and lay them up where they cannot be taken away. 16 IT. 4'hé wifetpait dire us tuh'.ere we may bellow them, to beout of fear of loing them, Y keep them (faith be) in thg thidit of the heart, for he that keepeth them, keepeth his own Ióul,, s n ,itt, refpg ofOthers we are alto to fei them kept. And th:s is to be done by zeal atad po. , that others break them not. We mull not fay, as in another cafe Cain aTim.4. a. f214,, 4r, .1myBrothers keeper ? Sam ego, enf es mandati tui , Am Ito be a keeper of Pfatet9458s th9-CoMenandmentsin others, is it not enough that I keep themmy felt? No,wemuff reprove,rebukea,an4pmthort, ufe all means to make others keep them, we muff be Praj. Ld k7t - grievedwith DsviirWhen others keep ebem not, Grid bath given them to us, they to .r açctpot only ebfervanda but confervanddi, we "fault not only obferve but preferve them; w,jticli ofwe do,we (Ball find, as the wife man.faith, that he that keepeth them t keepetb; ills own foul. Dominecuftiedio, adjuvg .Weglzgentiam meam. Lord I keepthem, help my Negligence. ts ao- n l:R n 7 CHAP. ,tr II
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