230 Satanspower to Tempt; andarift's love to, Ye have read that the Lord Chrift is a fuccouring Chrift : alai! I need to invite you,to come unto him ? Ye have read how able he is : andwilling he is to fuccour. His heart is bent to fuccour you, hisarmes areopen, his bofom is open, his heart is open to poor tempted fouls that they may re- ceive fuccour from him. Oh ! therefore, you that are tempted, Come untoJelin Chrift that you may be fuccou- red by him, Come unto Chrift, Come unto Chrift a- lone. e Youwill lay, But does hefuccour all that are tempted ? why then are any damned-? Anfn Some men will not come unto him : Ye will not come unto me, thatye may have life. Some come unto hirn,but make an halfe Chrift ofhim : They won't come under great temp- tations, then they are afraid, and then they defpair : They won't come under email temptations, then they defpife: But for middleing temptations, thole they will come to Chrift for fuccour in ; and thus theymake a halfe Chrift o him. Some come to him as to a Moles, make a conditional :Chrift ofhim : they mull have their own Preparations, and Humiliations before they come unto him, or elle they will not come unto him. Ent beloved! ye know. what our Apoftie faies, in the 7. ofthe Hebrews :.He is ablewfive unto the. ?at erme thole that some to God by him. Thole that come to. God byHim : ifyoudo come unto Him, he will fuccour. Ohjeg But my temptation is an Old temptation,4n Ancienttemptation; Ihavegone underfears, andtemptationsfor manyyeers together, I may fay, alme my wholedife : andwill MaChrififuccourfucb, insane as I am ? Pray what think you of the verle that goes before the text .? reade it, and confider it : the 14. and the 15. vesfes. Hehirnfelftookpart oftherame, that through death he might de- Jiro' him that bad thepower of death, that is, the. Devil. And (at the 15. verfe) Deliver them from Satan that were all .their life tune fithjeli toliondage. That hemight deliver them from Satan_thatwere all theirlife. time fui;jeia to bondage : in frat
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