Evangelical B eptolcc, love hecaule we are forgiven : but forgivencfs goes &it : Oh ! what grace! and love is here ! .1' asst was to takers withChB) thac to me he feems to be more taken with it; thanwith theviiion that he had in the third Heaven, iiiie5 he, I ki!eir a ?nail (whether in the bady,or out of the bot i ) a if:44 : 2 V./2. (rates he) wrapt up into the third heaven, andheard unfi,ealia- i 2. tale words, winch is nst lawfut,to be uttered. And this Pa.el -fpeaks ofout once. But faits Paul, I was et bia,"! !miller, I . 1 7ind. r. -was xperfecutor 5 but Iobtained mercy : This itoryheels three ' r , .) times : he tels the other story but one time ; but this gory, -this iiory of tree- grace ; how he was a blafphemer, and a perfecutor, and how he obtain'd mercy ; this was never out of his mind. As if he were more refrefht with the thought of this, thanwith the other. And I pray what then t Dobut obferve Paid, how gracious he is : how ininibk he is : how thanVul he is : how ready toPrve Chrift : how . ready toferve the Churches for Chritt : how ready to for Chriit upon all occafions : Oh ! how gracious did this make him. Thus 'tit with a-poor foul, that hath tailed of the free7grace ofGod in 'Chrill ; the heart 'is more -taken herewithal, -1-hanwiththe thoughts of Heaven : Ah, faies a poor foul, I was going on in fuch a finful way; or I lay leeping and fnorting in my fins ; and I know not how, . before ever I was aware, the Kingdom ofHeaven did ap- proach unto me, and the Lord in his free-grace (bowed mercy to my family, and to my poor foul: Oh ! therefore, anything for JefusChrift ; Oh ! I will fpend, and befpent, Oh ! any thing for Jefus Chrift. The fight ofGods grace, does make one gracious; and therefore Chrifrdoes take this way, Caufing the Kingdom of Heaven, grace, and free rerniffion, to approach first unto-us, beforewedo draw neer to it. There is one Reafonmore, Iwill but name it. Rea. 3.. Chrifi does fo order things in the difpenfations of his grace; that no.fielli might glory in it felfe, or in any thing that it bath, orBoth : that no flefhmight reft in any duty, i.!i' any fervice, in any leering; but only upon grace, up M m on
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