comfortablewalking withGod. FYormbes in theName of our Lord Ieftu Chrifi; yea, although I knew there were It; many Divels to refift mee , as there are tiles to cover the houfes in Wormbes. That of a molt re- now ned ItalianMarqueffe, Galeacisus Carracciolums, tempted by a Iefuitewith agreat fumme of money, to return from ,Gods blefling at Geneva, to the warme Sunne in Italy : Let their money pertfh with theta, who efleeme all the Gold gee t&e ftmy of in the world, worth one dayes fociety with lefus Chri i, and h tife'm .g'. Ids holy Spirit. That of George Carpenter Martyr: cmy Fonpag.884, wife and my children are fo dearely beloved unto mee , that they cannot bee boughtfrom mee , for all the riches andpe(fef- tons ofthe Duke of Bavaria : but for the love of my Lord God, I will willinglyforfal4e them. That of Kilian , a Dutch Schoole matter, to fuch as asked him , if bee loved not his wife andchildren; Tex, faid he, If the worldwere Cold, and weremine todiffrofe of, 1 wouldgive it to live withthem, though it were butmprifen; jet myfoule andChrifl are dearer to wee then al. I V. Exercife thy felfe continually, andbe excellent in that onely Heaven upon Earth, and fweeteft Sananar to an huntedfoule , the Lifeoffaith. Which to live in force Hab. s. 4. good meafure, is the duty and property of every living cam. xI'7° memberof Chrift Iefus. Love therefore, and labour to live bleb.. =o. ;8. by the power of Faith , the lifeoffalvation, fanhification, Gat. 2.20. prefervation. i . Offalvation,thus : Let thy truely- humbled foule, grieved and groaning under the burden of finne, throw it felfe into the meritorious, and mercifull Armes of Iefus Chrift, wounded , broken, andbleeding upon the Crofle; and there let it hold, and hide it felfe for ever in full afiurance of eternal! life, by vertue of that promife, John 3.3 6. Hee that beleeveth on theSonne, bath'everlaf#ing life. For having thus laid hold upon him, He by his Spirit doth communicate firft himfelfe unto thee; then both the merit of his death for remifhion of thy flames ; and of his aetive obedience for thy right to falvation and happinef e; and withall , thepower of his Spirit, toquicken thee to the fife of Grace in this World, and to raife up thy body to E 3 the 53
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