Part ll~. e~c:ept t~at .-~hkb tendeth to your own and other mens calamity._ Come h1tberall you th~tcall for pleafure and love no life but a life of mirth. Lee Godbe your maHer, and H~linefs your werk..,, · tmd Pkafure then fhaU be your huftnefs. : and holy Mirth {hall ~eyour employment; Whtle you.ferve t~e fi.dh, your pleafure ii fmall, and your trouble great : vex.;ztson ts your work and tf_nfieaftable_vexation is yo~r wages. But if y.ou willbe the hearty: iervams.of the Lord; Re]oycing fuall be your -worft4nd 'Wttges : If you ur.~derfland not th1s, perufe your leffon, Pfal. 3.3. 1. Re~ joyce in the Ler-d 0 ye Ric~hteous, for Prtiife is comely for the npright.] Pf<tl. 97· I r,. I2. Light is fown for the rightwu, and gladr!e{s for the upright in heart: Rej@)CI,in the Lordye Rightc– fJHS : , andg)ve thank! tflt the remembrance of hu hrJ/inefs. J Phi!. 3. I. Pfal. 5. I I ,. [.Let all tho[e thllt tru/f in thee rejoyct : let . themever fhout for joy ' becaufe thou defendefl-them: let them alfo that Lo1,1e thy name, be joyfttl in thee.] Pfal. 32. , t I. 'Be glad in tlJe :l;ord, andrrj~yce y _erighteous, and fhout for,joy aft ye that are 11Prightinbt~trt~_] Pfal. 13-2. 9· 16. [Ltt thy Priefts be cieathed with Righteoufnefs,a1Jd let thy Saints fhout for joy-: 16. I will:• 11tljo cloath her Priefts witJ,; j11/vation, and hu S11ints /hill/ foout ttloudforj~J fuch precepts and .promifes . abound in Scripture, which tell you if you .will be Saints indeed, .that ]9yand gladnefs mufi be your life ;tnd worlz: I know objections will be ftirring in your mincls : But forbear them but a while, and I fuall fully a:nfwer them anon. z. 1have told you wherein the Inwardpart of Holinefs.is De;: · /itfhtfnl; I fuall bridly fllew yon thatthc Outwa1\d ,part alfo is v~ry P/ea.(aHt, and fir eo feed thefe inward joys. And ' I • . let us. ·view the Duties that an inore direCtly w be performed unto God :and 2. The works ofcharity and rit;hteoufnefs unto men. . I. How fweer is it to be ~xercifed in the -word ofG§d 1 In h~aring or reading it with ferious meditation ? For the man .that bathbeen revive~ by.ir., renewed, fand:ified,.fa.ved by it, to hear that powe,rful heavenly truth, by which ·his foul was thus rnade new ! ·For the foul that is in Love with God, to hear or fee his bld[ed name, on every.lcaf! to read his will, and .find-the . ~xpreffions of his Love, his great, eternal, wonderous love, how fweet this is,experience tells the ·Saints that feel it : If _YOU that feel no fw~etnefs in it,believe not them that fay they feeltr,at leaft \elicve the word oJGod ~nd the profdfiops_ofhisancient Saint~~ , --- - ~--- - - ~ · · - · · · - · - 1 pfaJ. r . . >.·
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