19z DireEionsforgetting and keeping but one whole office it is to break our yoaks, and loofe our bonds, and fec us free. When he was a Preacher himfelf on earth, you may gather what) Dodrinehe preached by his Text, which he chofe at one ofhis firft publike Sermons; which as you may find in Luke 4.18,19.was this, be Spirit of the Lord is upon me; becaufe he barb anointed me to preaco the Go iel to thepoor ; he hathlent me to heal the broken-hearted to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering o f fight to the blind, to let at liberty them that are broiled; to preach the acceptable year ofthe Lord. O ifa poor bruifed, wounded foul had but heard this Sermon from his Saviours own mouth; what heart-meltings would it have caufed? what pangs of Love would it have railed in him I Youwould lure have believed then that the Lord is gracious, when All (that heard him) bare himwit nefs , and *oared at the gracious words that pro- ceededout ofhis mouth, Luke 4. zz, I would defire nomore for the comfort of fuch a fouh then to fee fuch a fight, and feel fuch a feeling as the poor pe- nirtent Prodigal did, when he found himfelf in the arms of his Father, and felt the kiffes of his mouth, and was furprized fo unexpededly with fuch a tor- rent of Love. The foutthat hath,once leen and felt, this, would never lure have fuch hard and doubtful thoughts of God, except through ignorance they knewnot whole arms theywere that thus embraced them,or wholevoice it was that thus befpoke them;or unlefs the remembrance of it were goneout of their minds. You fee then what is Gods own language to humbledPenitents, and what is the method ofhis dealings with them And fuch mutt be the language and
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