Senn. 2 I. in duty is from the Spirit of God ? her prayer, he ravishes her heart with joy, Cant, t.4. W hen David had 4. been at Prayer, Lord,lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon me : Then comes that rapture, Thou hall putgladnef' in my heart more than in the time that their Corn, and Wine, and Oyl encreafed,P..4,6,7.When we have greater joy after duty than Worlditngs have after Harveíf, which is their greate1I joy,gaudium meffr.c, is m(ffisgaudii; The joy of their harvefl is all the harveát of their joy, which this Worlds Earth- worms are likely toenjoy, Lt k,. i 6. 25. Son, remember that thou in thy Life -time rcceivedfl thy good things, fays Abraham to Dives. 4. When our a ttvity in duty is confaant,1kke the motion of the fire in its Orb (which Philofophers tell us) is perpetual. Aly foul breaketh for the longing that it hath unao thy judgments at all times, Pf. I t 9.20. i he Spirtcdwels in us as his ('emple,iCor.ó i9.Thebody istheTernple,the Soul the Luce, the Aff.ftions the Strings, the Holy Ghoa the Mufician, who in all our duties makes melody in our hear s,Rph.5.i9.Wherethe Ship is .aiway failing, the Wind is alway b!o ii,g, a; d we are lure that failing comes from the Wind; if the Wind lies mill, the Ship lies full, is becalmed, i,Cor. 3 . 17. Wh re the Spirit of the Lord is there is ii- bzrty, iNeu i6A, freedom and liberty are oppofed to three things, i. Necefiìty. 2. Co- ac`l;ion. 3. Reflraint. Now the Spirit of God fets our bre s (ut aiunt) our hearts at :iberty, not only from n:cellity, co- adinn, but allo reflraint. Setting at liberty is freeing us from im- prifonmenr, and giving freedom to go whither we will. The Spirit admi.s us to that liberty which is t. The purchafe of Chrif't, Gal. 5.1. 2. The Priviledge of our filiation, Rom 8.2i. The glorious liberty of the Sons of God ; The Spirit makes us ad as it fel f; Nefcit tarda moli- mina friritus lanai gratin. Ambr. 2 Cor. 3.6. The Spirit quickneth, cv07t0c7, makes lively, Rom 8.2. As the Spirit of life frees us from the law of fin and death, fo from the Law of (loth and deadnefs. Obieti. But fome poor foul cries our, Woe is me, I am undone, I find none of this ,çpirit in me. I am none of thole fixed Stars about the f qui- nctlial,that move many Millions in an hour, but a flow paced Planet,that fini l+es not his courfe in many years, ivhofe motion is fo dull that not dif- cernable. Sure 1 am call out of the firmament of Gods favour, and (hall be a wandring Star, to whom is relerved the blacknefs of darknefs for ever, ?Aide verf. 13. Anfw. It is the milery o' Minifters, that they cannot -fpeak of the experiment-al fublimities of fome,buc othersare prefentlt defponding and defpäiring. I would not for a world gaench the finoaking flax, on break the bruited, reed, Ma. í2,2o. Yea, I would with all my foul Per nomen Pt'. bet Nat, non tantum intelli go a peccati d7 carnis fervitute manumrfonem. Sed etiam fida- ciam yawn con - cipimus ex a- dbprionu ultra teffimonio; cone vent cumRom. 8.1 9. Ca iv. in - 2 Cor. 3.7. puK.
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