ftlfe,.inriching examination. I,\-------------~---- : ·ned, wheri :the Countrey r<;>tmd about is covered · with.dartmeffe, ·Like Gideottt fleece, t~lone watered) ·withhis fpeciall and faving blef.Iings J while there.ft of . . th~earthisdry,and deltitute ofhis grace;that is, that :.:whereas trueNathaniel1, found Chrifl:ians-are very : ·rcanr, and thinly fcaitered, like the berries, after· • the thaking ofan Olive tree, two or three in the _;topof the utmofr bowesj and foure or fiV,e in the high branches ~ here one ortwoin a family, there threeor foure in a .Village~; yet now by themer- . cies ofGodweare of their mimber. · - 4._Fromhencew_e rife inour meditation to con· ·· Jider and .- wonder at the Well-fpring of all otir · ~appineffe; our el~ionandch<:>ice tobeheires of 1 Heaven, out ofGods free mercy 3 -:and onely deare · love, before we were borne, nay before the world , : was made, even from all eternity :- AHdhereupon ·· our aea:rts fpri?g .and. leapewithin us .f.or j_oy ·l and comf0rr, to thmke, that as a woman, whtch;!· loving her childe while iris yet irt her wornbe) be-: : caufe it fprange out of hedoynes,doth irmch more · iweetlyfm-ile upon itwhen it i·s~borne, andfhe em.. braceth it in her armes : Sb ifGod loved us before . we had anybeing, while w~yet lay hid in·the great · ·Iumpe, and unfailiionedMaffe<?'f man-kind€; 9e– carifehe had choren us to· e~veffelsof honour for - hisroyallP.alac~ of Heav~n ·; hee will muchmort; . - dearly &tenderly niod}eus;and lull us inhis armes of mercy and cotnpa~on~ and hide us mnder his ···. wings>ofprote&iql} ·and power, n~w:when we· aret\rnborneby t~e-fpirit ofth~L'ordJeftfts, and· ' ,· . that heehathilamp«l ·upon us hisowne i-mage of .' ·· · , . · . · . ; " holinef.fe? . _
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