... ~.~S) · T!Je /Pedal Care-· e.fihe Hiubandmrrn~ . State IH-.-. fh~fpe'lrJ_of ~miction intoprzminghookJ, to them that ·arein Chriit, Ha. xxvii 9· By thh- there(orejhd/1/th~ .. iniquity of · Jacob be purged,, and this -is- all the fntit I~ taf."e arway his · fin. Why then fhould we be angry. with ou.r crofs ? Why ihould we be. fri-ghted ,a-£it? The believer-mull take up hit lroft, ancl follow his leader,, the Lord Jefus GbrifL He mul! take up his~ilk day's. crofs; Luke i.x. ~ 3~ lf any man· wt!l C?1!tt afte-r me, let· lim·deny himftlf,. and·take up·hiJ crofs· daily. Yea, b'e mufi take up his-holy -days crofs-too., L<l m•. i. 2 2. Thou hafi called~ aJ in. a folemn da_y; my terr(lr-J t:tJund ·about. The church of the J~wJ . haq, of. a long time, many a pleafa-nt meeting at-the- temple, on fofemn days; for, t-he wodhip of God; bunhey' got a foJemoity ofanother oa..- ture, when.God called together, .. a-bout: the ttmp-le and city, . the Cha/de--mJ·army that burnt .i.he temp!e, and laidJerujalem ,: •n heaps. And ·oow 1 . thatcthe·church of God ·is yet militant' in this Jower:re.gion, how canit·be, but the cl ouds·,wi!J r-etuUl · ·after the r.ain ?: But.the.crofs ofCbriH (which o~me the faints – troubles' do bear) is a-kindly name to 1the believer·. 1t is a crofs indeed ~ but not to the believer-'s grace~, bu-no hi~ cor·– ruption-s, The.hypocrites feeming graC;<:S may indeed breathe out their lafi oa a crofs·, as thefe of the. fiony ground hearers: 'did; Mat . xiii · 6 ' Ani~when the fun of (perjecution, ver . _ 2'o ) wa;.- up;, they· were ftorched: and b'ecau/e they had. not root; thex r.»irhered.a<tvay; But neva did one of the . real graces· irr a be-lieve-r die. upori the crofS yet N~ y., .as· (he candle- fhines. b-rightefl io the mght . and the fire burns·, ue.rcelHn iotenfe.froft-; · fo ·the be.lieve·r's·graces are ordina· rily mofl vigoFom in :the time oftroub·le. _ · The-re is-a. certain pleafore and fwee-toefs in the crofs, t·o , them•wh.o. ha.ve' thei·r {enfe·s exe!cifed to difce-m, and ~ to ' ind it ' OUH There· is"a ce rtain' fweetnefs - in ofle's fe ei ~g ; h ,mfeH:upon his trials for -hea ~ en, and Handing c<tpdidatC'' for gJory.- Thete is a pleafure- in travelling o.v.er thefe · moumains, where the Ch-riHi~n c;; n·-fee-the pr ints ofChri (t. 's , own feet; and 'the.- f•otflt'J"l-of thr: flock, who have: heen there be.fore h:int ; ' How-pleaf..nt ·-is it to a faint; .in the exercife of grace, to fee ._ how a good ·God cr9 1f~th h is conupt ' indira-· tions. arid p:n:'vents his folly ! Ho-w fweet is it to behol d thefe– thieve.s;.Ufpn the.crofs.!. How refined-a. pJeafure is_ there in ' . --~: · I "
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