Chrifis Futile;receivedby all Saints. 6 3 this mother, this woman were very careful of her child ? Feloved ! thus the cafe {}ands: NoGrace, no Af- iiitance, no Help for duty, no Help againft fin ; but the Lord Jefus Chrift Himfelfwill have the cutting of it, the Lord jefus Chrift will have the giving of it out He will have the drawing of it all ; all in a way of Receiving. Oh what care! Oh! whatinfinite carehath Godof poor feleevers ! When the Lord would commend His care of the Children of Ifrael unto them ; pray markwhat an ar- gument he ufes, in Dent. H. xo, is, 12. For the Land whe- ther thou goefi in topoSifi it, is not as the Land of Egypt from whenceye came out, where thoufigredji thy feed, and wateredli it with thy foot, as a garden ofherbs. They fetch't water out ofthe River Nilus, and fo they watered the Land of Egypt with their feet . Bur(faies he at the ix. vale) the Landwhi- therye go topo Fe it, is a Land of hills and valleys, and drin- kthwater ofthe rain ofFleaven : Not takenout of the River, and watered by mens feet, as Egypt was. A Land= (faies the Lord) which the Lord thy God Carethfor: A Land which the Lord thy God Careth for : He Carednot for Egypt. How does he prove that the Lord Cared for it ? The eyes of the Lord thy God are alwaies on it, from the begining ofthe yeer, even unto the end of theyeer. He giveth rain from Heaven, and when yourLand wantswater, 'cis given from Heaven, 'tis not watered by mens feet ' 'tis not watered as Egypt was wa tered, which Land Cod Cared not for. So now, there are fome people in the world, that water themfelves, that go forth in their own firength, that have moral vertues, and theywater their heartswith their own feet, (as I may fay) the Lord Cares not for thofe ' the Lord Cares not for Inch. Oh! but give me a foul that hath rain from Hea- ven, that lives in continual dependance , that acknow. - ledges that all is Received, that lives upon Heaven ; the Lord Cares for Inch a foul. Now this is the condition of all the Saints, of every leicever, he hath all in a way of Receiving: Oh! the infnite care that the Lord bath ofe. very,Eeleever though he be never Co mean-
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