Head 11. Duty of thofo rwho are delivered, &c. I 33 to thee : and fo thou fhalt, as the captive woman, redeem thy life, by marrying th~ ConqueJJor. His blood will ouench that fire of wrath, which burns againfi thee : in the ~hite raiment of his righteoufnefs thou !halt be fafe ; for no fl:orrn of wrath can pierce it. Jf. I {ball drop a few words to the faints. Firfl, Remember-that at that time,· (namely, when ye \Vere in your natural !bte)Je 'were«vithoutChrifl~having m hope, artd rwithout Gr;d in the world. Call to nfind that flate, ye were in formerly ; and review the mifery of it. There are five ·memorials, I may thence give io to the whole affcmb!y of the faints, who are no more children of•wrath ; but hein of God, and joint · heirs rwith Chrijl, thq' as yet in their minority. (:.)Remember, thatinthedayourLord took you by the hand, ye were in no better condi tion than others : 0 what moved him to take you, wbeo he pafl: by your neighbours! he found you children of wrath, even as others ; but he did not leave ycu fo. He came into the 1 common prifon', where you lay in your fette1 s, e\•en as o– thers ; and from amongfl the multitude of condemned malefaCtors·, he picked out you, ccmn1anded your fetters to be taken off, put a pardon in your hand, and brought you into the glorious liberty of the children of God ; while he left other·s in the devil's fetters. (2.) Remember, there was nothing in you to engage him to love you, in the day he firfl: appeared for your deliver.ance. Ye were childrm ef ..,_urath, evm aJ others, fit for bell, an'd altogether unfit for heaven ; yet the Kiog brought you into the palace : the – King's Son made love to you a condemned criminal, ' and ' efpoufed you to bimfelf, on the day in which ye might '' ' have been fed forth to execmtiop. Evenfo Fath~r,for fo it flemedgood in thyfight, Matth. xi. 26. (3.) Remember, ye "were fitter to be lothed than loved in that day. \Vender . that, when he faw you in your blood, ·he looked not wt you with abhorrence, and paffed by you. · Wonder that, ever, fuch a time could be a time of love, Ezek. xvi. 8~ ( 4·) Remember, ye are decked with borrowed feathers. lt is his cqmelh:efi, <tvhich isuponyou, ver. 14· It was he that took off your prifon garments, and cl0thed you with robes of righteoufoefs, garments of falvation : garments where– \V~th ye are arrayed as the lilies, which toil not) neither do ' M
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