driftsFidnel receivedby all saints. Oh ! Sun, why doeft thou thus forfake me? The Difciples al forTook Him : and yet He does not cry ontabomat, Wby &eft thou now forfake me ? Peter, why doeft thounow for- fake me? He cries not out ofthem, His body was nail'd to the Crofs : and he does not cry out and fay, Oh ! my band!; my -body; 01-1-1 thepain that I indure : but herehe cries out of this : Oh My God, MyGod, why haft thou forfa- kenme ? He was more fenfibleofGods withdrawing from Him, than of all the other miferies. that He did indure. Oh! my beloved, that youwould labor now, for to be like unto Jefus Chrift ; in your Doing; in> your Suffering fcir tobe like to Him. The fight ofagraciousChrift, will make us gracious, if any thingwill do it. Labor now, to be like unto Him, more and more. This is your duty that does flow from hence. You that are Saints, you that areChrifi's, you that have received Grace for Grace; Chrift expeEts, workfor work, anddoing for doing ; that you-fhould pine as He (k'in'd; and that you fhould live as He lived-, that you fhould fo walk, and be in the world, that thole that do live withyou may fay ; Here's a man, or woman' that is like to Chrift, that bath received Grace for Grace : now we fee this Doecrine true ; I cannot think of a- ny GraceofChrift, but I fee it shining forth. in. this man, and woman.: This is your Duty. Thirdly (by wayof Application) Ifthis be true: That Appli. 3. the Saints, and People of God, do receive of Chritts Ful- nefs, EvenGrace for Grace : How infinitly are we bound unto God the Father, for ourLord Jefus Chrift ! glorious- is the fellowfhip, and communion that the Saints have with Chrift, (as ye heard) they have not only fellowfhip- withHim in Eis fufferings, to have fuffering for fuffering: but they havefellowfhip with Him in, His Graces, Grace for Grace : and this fellowfbip hath. God the Fattier brought you into. Mark therefore,that place-again which, youhave irrthe r COr:I. 9. God 'is faithful, bywbom ye were- called unto the fellow /hip ofHis Son 7e Chrift cur Lord. By whomyewerecalleltinto this ThereforeItill the . - I27
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