Sixwales God prepares good works for us co do. I. 3 4 5. 6. Docîr. In Godswales we tuft move forwaid. Ephefian.r,Chap. z, V fi R.1®. neither their communion, nor by confequence their working, but by means ofthe Son. Wedo fee, who it is that doth work all our works for us ; he that giveth the work mull be glorified. Wemull come to God, if wedo a publike duty, if a private, in which we have any comfort, to bleffe him that had prepared fuch a thing for us his unprofita- ble fervants. Wemuff Iearn to flay our felves on Chrift,whenwehave not thole good things, nor cannotaccomplifh them as we defire; for who can receive any thing which is not given him from above ! But this com- fort mull be applyed, where there is in the confcicnce teflimony of true defire, and acceptable diligence. Thirdly, it dockteach us to expel the Lords defence,and to indure according to his will all fuch wayes, as by event and his Word we cangather to be prepared by him. Which God bath prepared for ea to walk in.] He defcribeth good works in way ofprevention, which Godbathprepared. Inwhat things this flandeth: a. In predeftinating thefe things ; for fo we may fee that Paul, Rom. r. r. and leremy, Jer. i. 5. and others, the calling, andworks of their calling, they were prepared for them before they were in the womb, by Gods predeflination : yet thus far of every work it may be faid, God in fome fort doth pre-ordain, I create the Smith, Ifa. 54. 16. 2. That God doth in the Commandements reveal them untous, and this is a way wherein our works are prepared to our hand; for the Law of God dothrule themout beforeour eyes. 3. God hath fet cis famples, both his own,and his children. 4. Goddoth give theconcourfe of grace, which maketh able for this or that work. 5. He doth excite the Will; for fuchis ourdulneffe, that we mull have our Will railed by him to will. 6. Again, he doth preferve us, that now willing we may work; and all thefe are included in this word [Prepared.] 7o walkin :] Not like Herod, fometime to ftep this way, to fet forward onely for a fpirt, and fo fit down; for [to walk] is a progreffive motion, a going on, to have our whole converfation in them. Obferve then, we muff walk in thole wayes that are prepared of God: Eneeh walkedwith God; Noah; David, Iwill walk in the upright- ne e ofmyheart in the midfl my hoofe, Pfal. rot. raft the whole time o f ourpilgrimage sufear, Wet. r. 17. Our life mull be a tracing of the Commandements ; we mull: not falute the wayes of God, as chapmen coming to Fairs : we mull walk inthe wayesof God, Pfal. 119. He that dill wins not, lofeth : 1 prep¢ forward, faithPail, Pbil. 3.14. This is certain, that man that comes in this life to the endof his walk, and there Petsdown his reft from going further, he never ai yet
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