thepremi fis ofemverla fl*rag life. Z`69, glory. It is good for me to drawnigh unto Ged. and put my truft inhis mercy ; to lay fait hold upon the promifes oflife andprotcftion,to get the fpirit ofAdoptionwhere- by we cry Abbe Father, and fly unto his grace inChrift, to get my title made fure and flrengthened unto my con- fcience, and while time ferveth, carneftly to feekc the kingdom@of God. Thirdly, Wee muff pray earnefily that God would increafc our faith, feale us by his Spirit, lead us in the wayofpeace, caufe us to grow up inholineffe; make us wife to prize and value, to tall and relifh the ¡oyes of Heaven; and affure our confciences of right and title to that everlafting inheritance. For it is God that fealeth us, and makes us to reade the feeling ; that promifceh Heaven, and affedeth the heart with thegoodnefl'e and worthof the thing promifed ; that by thepledges ofhis favour and theearnefl ofhis Spirit doth fufficiently tefli fie our Adoption, and caufe us certainely to apprehend what he doth teftific and affure. As the beginning, fo the progreffe, comfort and afliiranceoflife is fromhim, and inflantly is tobe begged ofhim, Faith receiveth the protnife oflife, and giues aflurance of what is received, as it prayeth. Who am I O Lord, that thou ihouldeft make fuch ample and free pro mifesunto thy poore fer- vent concerninghis everlafting happinefle? Ofthy free mercy, and according to thine ovine heart, haft thou fpoken all thefe great things, to make thy fervent know them. And now, OLordGod, eftablith I befeech thee the word that thou haft fpoken concerning thy fervant; gratioufly accept me for thy childe ; by the carnet of thy Spirit and pledges of thy favour feale unto me the promifed inheritance, and make me affuredly ro know what great things thou haft done, andwhat thofe hopes be which arc refereed for me in Heaven. My fight is dimme, not proportioned and fitted to fohighan obfc , affections carnali that I cannot fet my felfe to purpofe about this contemplation, the Dcvill labours nothing more ti
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