Of E/etlion. ----------------------- --~~----------- ~ thy foul, but it is'D.ry !\ill; as in Countries where the Sun it at the highe!l, there BooK IV. are ; and moll there of all other Counrrie• ; but his Love is' in its Zenith ~!lands as Io{htto's Sun at the top over thee, fixed and perpetually) It alters not: removes not A degree, the fixednefs of its fiation is pitcht and taken up towards thee,tn rcfp :ct of everla1hng kmdnefs.He may let thee feel the cffeds ofhislove !cl's one day than another, in comlons quiclmings (for he works the will & rhe deed of hrs own good pleafure) but his love fubfiantially and folidly is one and the fame, and varies nor, whatever you may think: I know,fays God,Jer,29.1r. the tho11ghts 1thmk towards you, thoughts of Peacr, and 11ot ofevtl, in all tryals. Nor 2.' Art thou<o reckon of this love,eitherby the yearly courfe, or long run, as tf thou havtng been tn the fiate ofGrace for fo or fo long a time, yet then for the other h~lf year, or more perhaps, thou fJJOu!dfi be out of it again (I mention that fpace of half a year, becaufe it was about that fpace fom~ would have 'David to have had a total intercilion oftlods love until Na. tha11 came to him) and then the other halfyear this Sun lhould come back a· gain unto thee in his love, and good will. But take the whole courfe GfGod trom firfi and !aft, and he is thine. Make not thy Almmwck by fucb uncem;in Rules; Gods Ca!mdar is otherwife : Remember that God is here faid not to be lil<e the Sun , neither in refped ot its yearly motion, and the alternation and variablenefs thereot, nor yer hi• Daily: Gods Almanack calculated for Eter– nity, varies not his love in eith.,r refpcds, Count up then with thy felfthat God loves thee not by the ,·ear only, that is, as if thou take the whole oftliy life in grofs by the great: No, but God loves thee by theDay; He varies not in hi>Love;!t is unchangable in refped ofany daily recefs or leaving ofThee,I fay his love is.Jefus Chri!t ,this Sun of Righteoufnefs, his Love never fets when once it is rifen,but as,Heb. 1 ~ · 8. ]tjlls Chrif/the Jameyejltrday, ,mdlo day, andfor tver; I confl:fs, that place is mainly to be taken, of his being the fame in his venue and efficacy in the yefierday ofthe Old Tefiament, and the prefent day of the Gofpe:, and for the for <ver i1: the other World; but withal when ( call my eye upon the )lh Verfe, where he bad newly fa id to every particular Soul, 1wilt.uver te,,ve thu, 110r for(ake thu, (the five. fold force in that Speech you have often heard of) you fhall give me leave withal to take in this high Con– folatory, that Jefus Chri!l is to every particular foul in refped ofhis love, in no wife, nor in no degree leaving, or torfaking them; The fame to day that yefl:erday he was,or at any time ofthy life, and will continue the fame for ever. And therefore go and carry home this for thy comfort, every one ofyour fouls that have been favingl y Called for your particular, fir{\ cafi but youreye on the words, Verj' 5· I wzllllevtr,&c, And then on tbe 8th, Jeji<.J tht fame, &c. and fee if they do not diredly look one upon th'other. Again, when p ,,uf fays,li1y inward man is renewed day by day, 2Cor+16, Our Spirits would be in a miferable plight, if in any day, even otfinning mofi, we lhould not be renewed,for then we fhould fall back infl:antly into Unregtneracy, but in the worfi day ot greatefi !inning• we do not ; He uphold' by renewing fame– thing o t his Grace, and gracious conflids again{\ fin in us : And though we feel not thefe renewings, yet I promi(e you faid Old Mr. 'Dod, in my hearing once, I believe I am thus renewed every day, though I difcern it not. Yea, God loves thee not by the day only, but by the Momeut, Ifai. 27. 2. ~· 111 that day {ing yemzto her ; Avineyt~rd ofred Wint, 1tht Lord do keep tt; 1will wa– ier it ever1 morJmlt: ltf/ tlll)' httrt it, 1wiOkup i11tight mtd day, Remem· ber but out of the Text, how that Gods good will varies not as the Sun cloth, neither in refp ed of a yearly motion, nor a daily motion off from thefe; but not fo to a Temporary work with which be deals Providentially, and as t his vi· fible Sun cloth towards the Fru.its which it brings forth, Vfe 1. Hafl tbou had fuch a work upon thee, as even here out of James, hath beenfcatteredly feteur? '· ThatofHm91i/iatin11, Verf.7.10. through which by the power of t!>e Spirit this world bath been blafled to thee, tht Spi· •·it ofthe Lord h.1ving blow1t upotJ it for ever; that this Vall.lation ofthmgs h"th been for ever changed, and withal thine Interefl: changed from things of this World, that thou makefl thy Height, 'T4,., the height, the top of thy de. fjrcs,
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