By the Croft ofchrijf. 232 in that mercy, that enableth us to give God the glory of all mer- cies ? Can it be a wrong toChrift, to rejoyce inthat without which we can do nothingbut wrong pins ? and to takecomfort . in that, without which we are uncapableof truecomfort ? By this timeI hope it is evident toyou , that it is aninjurious dealing againD ChriD andhisSaints, forany to reproach themfor Glorying in Gods graces, even that they are Crucified to the world,and theworld to. them.. SECT. XXV. Vfa Rom hence alló- many difconfolate Chriflians may fee their errour , whocannot Glory ina Mortified Date. They can fee matter of comfort in a.Date of exaltation when they per- ceivethemfelves-profper in all that they undertake,, and find a prefent anfwer of their prayers, and enjoy the fenfe of the Love of God :. but to be Crucified to the world and the world to them, doth,fecal to them;but anuncomfortable Date, and they cannot feethe:gfeatnefs<.of. the mercy. It is eafie to perceive the excellency of thofemercies that participateof the ultimate End , and are_known .by: properfruition, and have nothing in them but pure:fweetnefs,and delight ; And therefore a DateofJoy declareth tt. felf r But as:for thofe mercies that have the Nature of a Ivleans,,wl ofeexcellencyis in orderto their end , and thofe that havefome wholfombitternefs mixt; becaufe they are lefs grateful t+ofenfe;,and valued only by faith, therefore we are too prone to overlóok.their worth, and to neglect thecomforts which the con. fideration of them might afford us and fo to deny God the thanksthatis his due. Every fenfual man can rejoyce in the had.: vingand enjoying of outward profperity : And everyChritlian can rejoyce in thefruition of God, whether in foretalle here, or in fulnefshereafter :. But to rejoyce in the abfence of worldly profperity, in that wearedead to it and have learned to fet light by it ; and. to Rejoyce in theabfence: of God , in that we have heartsthat are let upon.him; and cannot be fatisfled' without him,, and. are defiring after him, and in progrefs towards him ,, and hope
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