I 34 Duty ofthoft who are deliv~red, &c;. State IT. they fpin. He took the chains from off you~ arms, the rope from about your neck : put you in fuch a drefs as ye might be fit for the court of heaven, even to eat at the King's table. (5 ~) Remember your fault! thiJ day; as · Pharao/i's butler, who had forgotten Jo/eph. Min'd who you have forgotten, and how unkindly you have treated him who remembred you in your low efiate. h this ;our ' kindnefs to ;•sur friend ? In the day of your de,liverance, djd ye think, ye could have thus requited him, your Lord ? Secondly, Pity the children of wrath, the world that lies in wickednefs. - Can ye be unconcerned for them, ye · 'who were once io the fame condition ? .Ye have got afhore indeed, but your fellows are yet in hazard of perifhing ; and will not ye make them all poffible help for thei.r delive– rance ? 'What they are, ye fometimes were. This may draw pity from you, and engage you to ufe all means for their recovery. See 'Tit, iii, I, 2, 3· Thirdly, Admire that matchlefs love, which brought you out of the fl:ate of wrath, Chri!l's love was aftive love, be lqved thy foul from the pit·of corntption. It was ' no eafy work to pmchafe the lite of the condemned finncr; but he gave his life for thy life. He gave his precious blood to ' quench that a ame -of wrath; which otherwife would hav~ burn,t thee up, Men·get the beH view of the !tars, from the bottom of a deep pit : from this pit of mifery into wbich thou waO: can by th~ firO: .Adam, thou mavfl: get the befl view of the Sun of righteoufnefs, in all its dimenfions. He is 'th~ fecond .Adam, who took thee out of the horrible pit, and out of the miry clay: How broad were th:::_fl{i!_ts of 'that Jove, which covered fuch a multitude of fins L behatd the ~ length of it, reac'bing /rom everlt~jling tr; e1,.Jerlafling, Pfal. ciii. 17. The depth of it going fo low as to deliver thee ftom the lowefl hell, Pfa.l. lxxxvi •.J 3· Th~ height of it, .. ~ . _.:-~~raifin::; thee up to}it in heavenly pla~es, Eph. ii . 6. I •• ~ .. - .. Fourthly, He humble, carry low fads, walk foftly a 1 '. · . yotir years. Be not proud of your gifts, graces, privileges, ot attainmects : .' but remember ye were children of wrath, '-even as others. The peacock walks ·nowly, hangs down his fiarry feathers, while he looks to his black feet. Look Je to t ke hofe of t h~ pit, whence le m·e dig[Jed, and walk humbly as 1t becomes free grace's debtors. Lafl!y,
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