A choice Bed of Spices. that will hill be cleaving to all our duties, fervices, wayes and walkings-in this world, which we may well call the ini- cluity of our heels. NON a gracious heart rifes molt againft niece, &c. Thirteenthly,No man can truly love grace in another, but he that has truegrace in his own font. No man can love a Saint as a Saint, but he that is a real Saint ; no man can love holinefs in another, but he that has holinefs in his own foul ; no man can love a good man for goodnefs fake, but he that is really good ; TYe know that we have /4'd from delth to life, be- calife we love the brethren. Sincere love to the brethren is a mOft evident fign of a Chriftians being already palled or translated from death to life ; that is, from a Rate of nature into a Rate of grace ; fuch a poor foul that dares not fay that he has 9, in his own heart, yet dares fay before the Lo:d, that he loves, delights, and takes pleafure to fee the holy gra- ces of the Spirit fparkling and fhining in the hearts, lives and lips of other Saints, ''fecretly wishing in himfelf that his foul were but in their cafe ; and that dares fay before the Lord, that there are no men in all the world that are fo precious, fo lovely, fo comely, fo excellent, and fo honour- able in his account, in his eye, as thofe that have the Image f God, of Chrid, of grace, of holinefs molt clearly, molt airly, and moll fully ftampt upon them. When a poor Chri- ian can rejoyce in every light, in every Sun that out -shines his own ; when he fees wifdom and knowledge fhining in one Saint, and faith and love fhining in another Saint, and humility and lowlinefs fhining in another Saint, and meek- nefs and uprightnefs shining in another Saint, and zeal and courage fhining in another Saint, and patience and con Raney shining in another, and then can make his retreat to his clofet,adrniring & b 1 elfin g of theLord for the various gra- ces of his Spirit fhining in his children, andbe frequent and earnest with God, that thofe very graces might Thine as fo many Suns in his foul ; doubtlefs fuch a poor foul has true grace, and is happy, and will be happy to all eternity. In Tr time, .the Heathen would point out the Chains by this 189 13. John 3.10. 1 John 3.14. This Text' you have opened in the first Maxim of this Book. 4. Peal. 4.3. He that loves his brother (faith iluguftine) better knows his love wherewith he loves, than his broth- r whom hw lovs.
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