drills Fitlnejr received by all Saints. 99 and fervices ofhis People : this is the onlyway to it. \ This is my beloved Son(faies he) in whom lamwellpleafed. If there Mat. 3 be a garment that is laid,with gold lace, hung or thick 17, full of Pearls; though the Cloth of the garment be not muchworth ; yet becaufe ofthe gold-lace, and the Pearls that are upon it, you count it very precious. Such are our duties, theClothof our duty isnot much worth, but becaufeofthe golden-lace, and the Pearls ofthe Graces of Jefus Chrift, they are very precious. 'Tis not in regard ofour duties, as in regard ofyour flowers, or polies: let flower, or pofybe never fo fweet, they receive not any of the fweetnefs front the bofom that it flicks in : the pofy does ive eeten thebofom, but the bofom does not fweeten the pofy. Ibut now, theduty that is flack in the bofom of jefus Chrift, is fweetned by the bofom, by the bofom that it flicks in. Pray mark therefore what is laid in the ii. of the Canticles for this purpofe. (Sales the Spoufe at the 12. ver.) When,(or while) the King fitteth at his table, NJ flikenardfendeth forth thefmell thereof My Spikenard what is that ? The Graces, and the duties and the fervices of Gods People, they are His Spikenard : this Spikenard fencleth forth the fiell thereof, while the King litteth at his table , while it is in the prefence ofJefus Chrift ; whilft the pofy is in His bofom it fmels fweet, elfe it does not. NowCod the Father, (I fay) He hath fo ordered things, that He may take a complacency, and contentment in the -duties, and fervicesof His People, and therefore it is that all their (-races theycome from Jefus Chrift, by vertue of Him. Itwill be Cbjea.ed vet. It fhould -teem that all Grace Objet. does not come hot,- Chrift no, nor fromCod the Father neither : for in the IC of theProverbs, and the I. verfe it is laid, (as Ionic tranflations reade it) The preparations of the heart are of man,httt the anfwer of the tongue ps from thelord. If a man canprepare his heart, that is agreat matter: but now (faies Solomon) 'The preparations of the heart is of man, but the anfwer of the tongue is from the Lord: Surely therefore,
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