30 VireElaons for getting and keeping intreated to take it ; what: would you do in this Cafe ? would you fpend your time and thoughts in fearching,w1 ether this Pardonbe already yours ? or would you not prefèntly Take it that it may be yours ? Or ifyou were ready to famifh, and food wereofferedyou ; wouldyou fl:andasking firft,How shall I know that it is mine ? or rather Take and Eat it, when you are Pure it may be yours if you will. Let me intreat you therefore, when the devil cla- mours in your ears [Chrift and Salvation is none of thinej fuppofe that this voice ofGod in the Gofpel were í6íl in your ears, yea let it be frill in your me- mory [OTake Chria, and Life in him, that thou maiff be faxed : think that you hear Paul fol- lowing you with thefe words [We are EmbafTadours for Chrifi, ad though God did befeech you by us : -we prayyou in Chrifi'sftead, be Reconciled to God.] Will you but remember this, when youare on your knees iz1 forrow ; and when you would fain have Chrifl and Life, and you areafraid that God will not give them to you ? I fay, Remember then, GodBands by Befeechingyou toAccept the fame thing which you are Befeeching him to give. God is the firít fuitor and folicitor : God prayes you to Take Grill, and you Pray him to give you aria : what have you now to do, but to Take him ? And here underfland, that this.Taking is no Impoffible bulinefs ; it is no more but your hearty Contenting, as I Ihall tell you more anon. Ifyou did but well underffand and con- fider that Believing is the great Duty that God cals you to perform, and promifeth to fave you if you do truly perform it ; and that this believing is to Take, or Confent to have the fame Mercy which you
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