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VE
R
.
7.
%phefian.r,
Chap.;.
365
while
they were
broken;
and
John
the Baptift did
not
know
Chri(t
fo
as
afterward
hecame
to
know him
in
his
preaching;and the Apoftles,
what ignorance was
in
them till after ChriftsrefurreEtion?
2.
What
if
we
cannot feele
that power we
defire,in executing this
office,
yet we
mutt thinke
that
cMofes
face
did thine,
and he
knew no fuch
thing
,
yet
Nor of
the
did it fhine
fo
that thechildren
of
lfrael could not behold him.
What
limn
good
if
we fee
no fruit
as
we wifh,
we mull know
that the
fruit
of
miniftery
they
comes
is
nottyed
to ourobfervation,
Marke
4.3°,31,
32.
z.
The
fountaines runne,
though
none come to
fill
a
cup
-difh
at
them;
fo
we mutt
gufh out
with this water
oflife,
though
none
by the
veffell
of
faith fhould take
it
in.
3.
There
may be
feven
thoufand
gained
where we
fee
not
feven.
4. That which
fheweth notfruit
prefently,
may
bee
a
feed,
of
which others
may reap
comfortably hereafter.
Againe
what
if
I
cannot get any
comfortable
feeling
of
that
I am
to
Nor
for want
deliver,
neither before,
in
the while
of
fpeaking,
nor
after, wee
mutt
tbemfer
es
the
not
in
this be
difmayd, but fupportour
felves
by
comfortable medi-
power
of
thofé
rations; as,
things
they
I.
That
the
fruit
of
my miniftery
is
not
tyed to
my feeling.
preach.
z.
God hathpromifcd
me
the
inward teaching
of
his
Spirit,
if
I
will waite for it.
3.
God
is
not
like
thofe tyrants
of
whom
lob
fpeaketh
, who
will
lob.
24. a.
kill them
with
thirfi that tread
the
Wine-preffe:
hee
would
have
:
cor
e. rg.y.
them
taft
of
the
altar that ferve at
it
; and
would not
have the
mouth
of
the
oxe
muzled, and many fuch
like
things.
Lafdy,
what if
I find
my
felfe
much troubled
and:
feel wicked
pow-
Nor
upon
ers affayling me even
while
I
am fpeaking, yet wee mull not
fhrinke
prationtc
n-
fromthisGofpell
,butfixeoureyesonChrift:
Refifi
the
devil!
and
bee
eraryto it.
fhall
flye; build this fpirituall
Temple
like
good
Nehemiah,
having our
iatn.4.7.
trorvell
in
one hand
,
and our
fword
in
the
other,
the
Word
in
our,
mouthes,
faith
in
our
hearts to refill all
the
fiery
darts
of
the devill.
V
E R
S.
7. Whereof
I
ammadea ciYtini/ier
by
the
gift of
thegrace
of
vs
R
s,7.
God
given
unto
me,
through
the working
of
his
power.
The
gift
hash
2
parts.
t
TheQ
iality.
7
For both thefe inward gra-
z.
The
Exercife. ces
wifdome
&
knowledge:
Likewife
the
exercife
of
them, to
thinke,
to
fpeake
,
the whole la-
bour of Miniftery
is
on
his grace
in
us. z
Cor. 3. 5.
Not
that
we
are
fuf-
ficient
of
our
[elves
to
thinke
any
thing
as
of
our
[elver,
but
our
fuffrciency
is
of
cod.
Phil.
2.
t 3.
It
is
God that worketh
in
you,
both
to
will
and
to
doe
of
his
good
pleafure.
So that
we mull
grow
up
toknow
our inlufliciency, and
to look
tip
Vj
r;
to God
for
ftrength
and ability inevery
thing we undertake
,
making
him
our wifdome, our ftrength, and
to empty
our
felves
of
all hope
or
helpe in our felves
or
in
any meanes,
but
let
the Lord
bee
our ftrong
arme
offalvation,
and
our
all-fufficiency
in
allthings.
Learn
to referre the glory
and praife
of
all
we have
to
him algne,for
z
ofhim,and through him,andfor him are all
thing
to
be
glory.
2. Obferve