378 inftntElionJ for a right comfortii1g SeC\:.3. --------- ------- obedience unto God; are moil: certainely,as it wer.e, by the 'Y"ay fortifi~d, and enlive~ ,~ith the pacifYing perf~9:wns, and mterceffory fpmt of I ej m C hrift. {weedy perfumed with the precioll~ Odours ofhi~ frdh bleedin~ Merits,and bleffedMediation; fo' that they {hike the eares of the Almighty with h1rre greater frrength, and irrdlfr:tble importunity,tben'is ordinarily imagined: And are as fweetriinellii1g fa~ £rifices in his noftrils; The very fight ofwhofe cru- . cified Sonne at his right hand tendring the fuite, can calme his.mo£1: angry countenance; and convert by a facred meritorious attonement, his difpleafures and wrath, into compafsions arrd peace. Now blefi~d be God, that the weake prayers, and broken !ighes of tempted and troubled fpirits, have this happy promife and prero.gative : That before they preffe;- as it were,.into the prefence of God the Father, they are mingled in ~he mea~1e time, with the foveraigne and fat1sfaCl:ory mcenfe m t11e golden cenfe-1'; whence evaporating out ofthe Angels hand {I meane the ~n~ /l.el of the Covenant, for fo the trueft Interpreters under[tand the p'ace) they afcend into the fight of our gracious Father, incorporated and enwoven, as it were,into that pretious and pleafing fume: and that it pleafeth the 6/effed Spirit, in the needfull time of :lpirituall extremities, to draw the petitions of our fometimes fpeechleffe, heavy and diil:raCl:ed.hearts: Jefm Chrifl, the great Angel! ofthe Covmant, to per~ feet, perfume and prefentthem: Hee that by an ex.. · cellency,and title ofhighefr honour,is friled the He a-. , rer ofprayerJ", to receive them into his . merdfull ' hand, and bofome of compaf<>ionate acceptation ! · Goe on then poorefoule; Thou that forely droopeft . under the fenfible waight of thy manifold weake.. · neife~, and unworthineffe this way ; and thereupop fomttmes finfitlly drawefr back~ with fame thoughts fJf giving-over quite; which is that, the Divell de.. · - - ·· - · - ftres,
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