A choice Bed of Spices. 109 of the freene.fs and riches of Grace, or when they keep down pride, and prevent the defpifing of others, or produce holy ihame, or when they make the blood of Cit.& more preci- o.lsand dear to the Soul, or when they engage a Chritlian fo much the more to watch and pray, and pray and watch, that he may either. be kept from the hour of temptation, or in the hour of temptation, or when every fall makes fin more bit- ter to the foul than ever, and Chrifl more fweet to the Soul than ever, and all the means of Grace more delightful to they Soul than ever, and heaven moKdefirable to the Soul than ever ; or when fin is made the7evention of fin, or when fin through the over-ruling hand of Grace is made an occafion of more Grace ; as that good man fa id, As] get hurt' my Grace.c, So I get good by my fins. You-know all the falls-and knocks, and blows, that children get that are learning t3 go, do but make them cleave the doter and hang the falter upon the Nurfes skirts, or about the Mothers neck: So when all a Chrittians falls do but work him to cleave the doter, and hang the faller upomthe fierigth of Chria, and to be MI a drawing, more and more vertue and power from Christ then is the prevalency of fin made ferviceable to holy and gracious ends ; and where God ordinarily thus works ivwor 3 there is certainly a work of God in power upon that Soul, 2 Cor. 7. i x.. F or behold, this felf fame thing that ye forroled after a god- ly fort .what carefolnefs it-wronght yon, yea, what Clearing of your felves, yea, what indignation,)ea, what fear, yea, what vehe- ment defire, yea, what,' zeal, ,yea, what revenge, in all things ;00 have approved your felves to be clear in this matter (this Scrip- ture I have fully. opened in my eighth fign of godly forrowyn this book, and to that Prefer you). The Mother by Pit:tering the child to ger one -fall, keeps the child from -many a fall; and fo 'twas with thee, Corinthians. Adam fall was an inler to abundance of grace and his unrighteoufnefs did tither in- to the world the molt glorious Righteoufnefs of jefus Chriff. 2 atom Hez,ei4b faltS, and by his fall, God gives him a clearer- and 26, 3., 31., fuller fight of his own heart than ever he had before, imall his dayes. Sinis no gainer; but .a lofer by every: fall- of the Saints. God does, and will, by the over-ruling hand of his race,
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