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R.;<1:.
Ephefianr,Chap.
r.
z.Our
love
Mall
as
a
flame
rife up
ro God. When the water
which
run
-
neth
in
any channels
is
brought into
one,
it
maketh
a
little
Sea
:
When
all our
felfe
love, love
of
wife, children ,
earthly things,
yea
of
frnful
lufts,is turned
all
into
the
love
of
God,
then doubtleffegreat
and glori-
ous
(hall
be our love.
3.
Our joy
breaketh forth
in
praife,
who
is
able
to utter,when
here it
is
unfpeakeable fometime and
glorious
The glory
ofthe body
frill
be
fuch,that
it shall
fhine
as
the
Sun
in
the firmament,
both
fro
in
the
glory about
ir,and
the glorious
fpirit
within it;as
a
Lantern
fhinerh
from the Candle within it
:
For the things
we thall poffefs,they
are
in
a
word
al
things,
the
world to come,the
new heavens,and
the
new
earth;
&
the creature
being
a
little thing,we
(hall poffeffe
God
himfelfe,
inChriff,
as
our hufband and
all- fuffictent
portion.
For the
VCe,fiat
we fee,
that
heaven
commeth to
us
freely,
did we
left.
deferve ir, and
in
effrd,pay
for it,it were purchafe,not inheritance
;
but
it
is
not
faid frmply an
inheritance, but
fuch an
one
as
is
affìgned
us
by
lot;
for this
word
feemeth to refpeéf
that
divifion
of
Canaan to the
twelve Tribes, whofe
feverall feateswere
by lot
defigned
:
Now
if
our
inherita
nee
commeth
by
lot,
then it
is
not our
own induftry,but the Di-
vine
difpofition,which worketh
all
in
all
in
it.
This
fhould caufe us
to rejoyce:
O
if
men have fmall
things befall
them
in
earth,
their hearts
are foone rayfed
to rejoyce
in
them
;
yea,
in
the vaine
pleafures
of
this
life,
how
are
the
hearts
ofmen
filled
with
gladneffe,
who yet
hang downe
the
head
all amort
while thefe things
are piped
e
Ah
alas
!
there
are
too
many who tafte
their pottage,
like
E-
faro,hetter
then there birth- right. O let
us
be afhamed,
that
in
thefe out-
ward royes, which are but
like
the finking
of
a
childes rattle,
that
in
thefe
our hearts
fhould
be tickled,and with the matter
oftheir
free
-hold
in
heaven, fhould
not
be moved.
This
fhould make
us
rejoyce when
wee
are made heavy
with divers temptations,
r
Pet.
t.
fo
they
did
in
thole
Apofkolique
times; but the hidden light
of
this ftar
is
not
fo difcer-
ned
by
us
who
live
in
this day
ofontward
profperity.
This
fhould ffirre
us
up
to
affe&
thefe things,and
be defirous
of
them,
ip
7.
the
creature groaneth
in
kinde, waitingwhen this our inheritance thall
be
given us.
What
dead
births
are we
who
lie in
the
wombeof
the
,
Church militant,
never offering
to
breake
forth into the
heavenly liber-
ty
c
Children
are fo atfefted to
their earthly inheritances,
that
they
fometime praclifeagainft their ovine parents,affeéking over-
timely pof-
feflïon.
Great
purchafers,
if
they
make
a
purchafe
in
the remotefl parts,
are
not well
till
they have
feene
it
;
fo
fhould we be
affeeted
toward our
inheritance:Whybath God
given
us
the
fink
fruitseeven
as
the
Spies
did'
brim;
to
the
Ifraelites fome
ofthe
fruits
of
Canaan
to
make them
longg»
after
ir,
and
delire
to
be
poffeffed
of
fo
good
a
land: fo
doth the Lord'
give
us,to the
like
end,
the
firft fruits
of
theSpirit,to
make
us
defire and
long after
the fulneffethereof.
Finally,
fee
the
feare
we
are
to
walke
with upon
this
confideration,
ril.
Hebr. 12.
The
greater thing
we
expeék
from any,
themore
muff
be our
obfervancie
toward
them,
and
endeavour
in
all
things to
pleafe
them.
Now
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