ilo Grace for Grace) Or the over-flowings of when a man is Abundant in good, Conflant therein, and walks Humbly ; faies theworld then ? there's the man, if al Proefforswere fuch I, there'san Humble man, there's a felt-denying man; I, if you were all fuch, ifyou were all filch, then I fhould like thewales offSod the bet- ter. Takeheed therefore, unto your lives, that you fo walk, as that thewales oflefilsChrift may bewell fpoken of by you. In the Seventhplace. Wouldyou honor jefus Chrift as you fhould ? Then own Him : own Him in evil times, and Rand for Him in the times ofgeneral declining. Honor eft Teftimonium de alicujus Excellentia : Honor is theTeftimony of a mans Excellency : when I teilifie ofan Excellency in aman, then I honor him ; and the more I teftifie of an Excellency in a man , themore I honor him. Now the lets the Truth of Chrift is; and the more defpifed the Ordinance of Chrift is, and the more I fuller- for it ; the more do I teftifieof an Excellency in jefitsChrift : What! futler the lofs of all for that which theworld counts little worth ! 6 ifthere be fuchan excellency ina Truth, a final Truth,a defplfed Ordinance; What an Excellency is there inChri ft Himfelf! Obferve therefore, what tholedefpi fed Ordinances are, and labor to bear them up, thole Truths that theworld counts final Truths,be willing to lofe much for them ; hand for them in times of general declining; own lefus Chrift in evil times; otherwaies you cannot ho- nor Him. I have done. Only thus : Be willingto ftoopunto any work2 (thoughit lies much belowyour condition)for jefus Chrift; and fay, that you arenot fufficient unto fuch a work: when you have done the work, let the Crown upon the head of themeans, that is molt properlyChrifts. Some means are Natural , and Come Inftitutional : Some means that areneer unto Chrift : Some means that ye ufe in a work, that are more piciperly Chrifts : Chufeto latheCrown upon thehead Ofthe means that is neereit toTeas Chrift. hus doing, yl fhall honor Iefus AhdOh ! rity Beloved
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