GraceforGrace) Or the over-flowings of GodsChildren have an Inheritance. And the Inheritance called, an Inheritance ofLight : It does not lie in a dark, foggy, and fenny, and moorifh place; 'tis a comfortable Inheritance, 'tisan Inheritanceof light. And the Apoftle, Hedoes here give thanks unto God, that had made them Meet to be the partakers of the Inheritanceofthe Saints in light. Hedoes not here give thanks unto God, for the In- heritance ; but that theywere meet, to bepartakers of the Inheritance; thatthey had anLarnefi , till the inheritance came. (1 fay)all the ( racewhich a godly man hath on this fide Heaven, it is but an Earneft : you look upon it as it is in it felf, and you fay ; 'Tis not much : I but, look upon it asan Earneft, but as anEarneft, and then youwill fay, 'Tis much indeed, Uh ! 'tis much indeed. But then Thirdly, and fpecially : Confider the Myfie- ry ofGrace : Grace is a myftery. Ye reade in Scriptureof the myftery of iniquity, and the myftery of godlinefs godlinefs is not only amyftery in the general, but all the parts ofgodlinefs aremyfierious ; there is a myftery in eve- ry part : and ifyou would but a littleconfider the myftery ofGrace, I dare fay, you would liftup your hands and fay then, Oh ! what Abundance of grace is here, even in the weakeft Saint! Forexample, to Infiance. Ye fay, 'tis no great matter, for a manor woman to tremble at the IFord: '1 is more then many a one does; many come and fit out Sermons, &never tremblebefore the Word. Well, but you fay, 'tis no great matter to tremble before the Word, to tremble at the Word. I but, for a man to tremble at theWord, andyet to count it af hony ,and the hony-comb:to trembleat the Word, & yet to low it, .&prize it then, & look upon it as the hony and thebony -comb ; this is much : Now ye (hall have a poor foul, a poor Chriftian, come and tremble before the IA old, and yet look upon theWord as the hony, even as bony, and the hony-combe, for fweetneffe ; This is much. Again. You count it no great matter, for one to love the Ordinances
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