.-jrcrsroa: - .435+ Withdraw his qüickning influences : For without him you can do nothing. Judge then by this in whom you fhould glory. 9. Ye further as you cannot do thefe of your felves, fo `neither canyou go to Chrift your felves for ftrength to do them. You will not fo much as Move a hand, or lift up your voice to cry for help. For the.natureof fin is to make the firmer willingof it, and unwilling tobedelivered from it. You would rather God would let you alone ; and thus you would continue. I o. Yea more, without Chrift you would not-fó much as un- derfland and be fenfible of all this mifery and difability in your felves. You will think your felves well whenyou are next the worít and give no one thanks that would pitty or help you. So that la,'all this together, and judge in whom it is that you fhould Glory. T i And indeed , the very nature of all your graces, if you n will leadyou from a glorying in your felves to a gio- r'irg inChrift. Repentance will lay you low and make you vile inyour own eyes , and loath your felves forall your abominati- ons, Ezek, 36. 3 I. Self denyalisa great part of the new crea- ture. Faith leads you out of your felves to Chrift."Love will carry you quite aboveyour felves to God. And fo it iswith other 4 graces. To live in your felves, upon your felves, and toyour felves, is the (late of theunfan+stified. To live in Chrift , and up- on Chrift, and to Chrift , is the flate of all his living members : So farthen as you are new creatures, this Law is written in your hearts and I have the lefs need to teach you this leffon, and per- fwade you to the praaice of it, becaufe you are really taught of God, to Glory inChrift and not in your felves. 12. To conclude , even Nature and Common Reafon may teach you that you have little caufe to glory inyour felves For it may ealy tell you that you. have nothingof your felves , and therefore nothing that is originally your own : Who knows not that we have our being , and all the means ofour well-being , and every .thing that is worth the having , frorrr God alone ? As Nothing could not make itfelf to be Some- thing fo neither can that dependent Something uphold, it feif, or carry on it felf unto its End. What hat those TO hch
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