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Six
wales
God
prepares
good
works for us
co
do.
I.
3
4
5.
6.
Docîr.
In Gods
wales
we
tuft
move
forwaid.
Ephefian.r,Chap.
z,
V
fi
R.1®.
neither their communion, nor
by
confequence their working, but by
means
of
the
Son.
We
do fee,
who it
is
that doth work
all our
works for
us
;
he that
giveth
the
work
mull be
glorified.
We
mull 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.
We
muff Iearn
to
flay our felves on
Chrift,whenwe
have not thole
good things, nor cannot
accomplifh
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
can
gather to be prepared by
him.
Which
God
bath prepared
for
ea to walk
in.]
He
defcribeth good
works in way
of
prevention,
which
God
bathprepared.
In
what 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,
and
works
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
unto
us,
and
this
is
a
way
wherein our
works are prepared
to our
hand;
for
the Law
of
God doth
rule
them
out before
our eyes.
3.
God hath
fet
cis
famples,
both
his
own,
and his
children.
4.
God
doth
give
the
concourfe
of
grace, which maketh
able for
this
or that work.
5.
He doth
excite
the
Will;
for fuch
is
our
dulneffe,
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 walk
in :
]
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,
I
will walk
in
the upright
-
ne
e
of
my
heart in
the midfl
my
hoofe,
Pfal. ro
t. raft
the
whole
time
o
f
our
pilgrimage
su
fear,
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
in
the
wayes
of
God,
Pfal.
119.
He that
dill
wins
not, lofeth
:
1
prep¢
forward, faith
Pail,
Pbil.
3.14. This
is
certain,
that
man
that
comes
in
this life to
the
end
of
his walk, and
there
Pets
down
his reft
from going further, he
never
ai
yet