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Let
them thee-
fore waite
the
morepaticntly.
lam.
ç.
Doll.
Chrifts
ad-
vancement
muff
be
our
ivy.
lolla
4.08.
Doti.
Chrill keeps
not
his
graces
to himfelfe,
butdoch com-
municate them
to his.
Yfe
r.
So ought
we
endeavour
to
511
others
of
our llore.
Pfah s6.
Ephefians,
Chap.
4.V
that God
would
comfortthem with
his
biding,
but
that
according
to
the
yeares
wherein
they
had
known
evil,
he would
be
pleafed
to
refielh
them.
Where
he makcth this the mete-wand whereby God
fhould
meafure their
good,
the
greatneffe and continuance
of
their
tribula-
tion.
True
it
is,
that
in
this life, it
is
not alwayes to
be obferved, yet
.
here
the prefent
falvation often
aniwereth to prefent
exercifes, but
when juftice
(hall
returne to judgement, when
Gods
juftice
Thall
per
-
feRly
berevealed
in
the
effets
of
it, then
this
(hall
be found true that
the patient enduring
of
the greateft
fulferings,
¡hall
receive
the
greateft
weight
of
glory.
Now
this fhould
caufe
us
every
onetobeare
our croffe
more
com-
fortably;
if
Saint
lames
might
well
exhort
on
thatexample
of
lob,
Tou'
have heard
of
the patience
of
lob,
and
what
end
God
put
to
his
evils
:
then
much
more may we perfwade from this prefident
of
Chrift,
you have
heard
of
Chrifts abatement,
and what glory followed it,therefore
pot
feffe
your
felves
with patience.
Looke
as it
is
with
Inne- keepers,
if
they
have guefts very curious and divers,
yet they will beare
with
becaufe they know
they
will
pay well at
their parting
:
fo wee
fhould,
though
croffes
aretouchic
guefts, yet give them
leave,
fuffer
a
while patiently,
and
when the reckoning commeth all
(hall be
re
compen
fed.
A fecond paint here obfervable
is
this
:
That
Cbrif
is
gone above
all
theft
heavens
in glory,
is
a
ffreeial
caufe
of
rejoycing
to
all
his members:
if
ye
love
ma
(faith
Chrift)
you
will
rejoyce,
that Igoe
to
the
Father.
For
which
of
us,
if
we had
a
poore kinfman advanced to
fome high place
in
the Commonwealth, would not rejoyce
a
So
it is
that
our
eldeft
brother,
yea
our head
is
gone into heaven,
and
there
in
our
nature fit
-
teth next
in
authority under God th
1.Father, who
bath
tubjecled
all
things
to
him.
Now
for the
f
uite
of
his
Afcenfion
:
That
he
might
fill
al:
here
you
fee
that Chrift
glorified
in
the
heavens, fllleth
all
his
in
heaven and
earth with
glory:
Obferve then
from
hence,
That
Chrifdath
not
keepe to
himfelfe the
things
he
bath,
but
communi_
cateth them with
his members.
lohn
17.
r9.
For their
fakes
f
nllitc
l
my
felfe,
that
they alto
might
be
fanc7ified:
verfe
az.
The glory
that
thouga-
vefl
me,
!
have
given
them;
he
lanâifieth
himfelfe for
us,
the
glory
given
him,
he giveth
us:
John
r.
16.
of
his
fulneffe
weal
receive
grace
for
grace.
It
teaçheth every one
of
us
that
we mutt
not
keepe
the
things wee
have
to
our felves, but
if
we have any meafure
of
filling, let
us
be like
Chrift,
labour
to
fill
others:
we will
light
anothers
candle at
ours:
fo
we
muft,if our
mindes be
filled
with light
in
any meafure from
Chrift,
labour to enlighten our brethren by
it
:
Every one mutt
fay
that
which
is
fpoken
of
Chrift,
Pfal. 16. and
of
us
in fome
fort that
are
his
,
oar
good,
when
it
cannot advantage
God,
it mull
be
imployed
fir
the Saints,
the
excellent
in vertue,
in
whom
is
all
our
delight.
This