it 8 A Box of precious Ointment o Or, As they fay of map his living under the reign and dominion of any one the cardinal ver- toes ; Virtuter fatni inter fe con- fin, though he does not live under the power of other fins r becaufe there is not any one fin mortified in that man, ;that tnieles'ea7reTchaeer". d hath any one fin reigning in him, and that does not fet him- together ; of the we felf in good camel/ againft it as his greateft enemy. So when may fay nracea of the a:Chriilian can but find any one grate in him, as love to the sPi!ir7 6"' I Saints, for grace fake, for godlinefs fake,he may fafely con- M.:111, fait hcbry- Nom, 'tis not dude, that there is in him all other graces ; where there is "rith'g4 I but one link of this golden chain, there are all the links of racles, G ffi ,* out in d ,us bZt this golden chain, job. T3. 35. 0 this fhall 41 men knots ye, love to our bre- are my Difcip'es, if ye love one another. He doth not fay, if ol f at oie f' y' woillmiracles, it ye raife the dead, if ye give eyes to J pot) f 0 toren, that's the 1(:lag. a Difcia)le. the blind, or ears to the de,af, or tongues to the dumb, or feet to the lame, but if ye love one another. There have been many, yea, very many precious .Chriftians, who have lived and died with a great deal of comfort and peace from the application of that Text to their own fouls, i fohn 3-. 14 We know th4tIve have pled from death to life,. becaufe )32e love the trethren. Sincere love to the brethren, is a moll evident fign of a Chriftians being already paired or tranflated from death to life ; obferve, the Apoille doth not fay, we think we have paired from death to life, . but we know we have paired from death to life ; nor he does not fay, we conjecture we have paffed from death to life, but we know we have paffed from death to life ; nor he does not fay, we hope We are paffed from death to life, but we are affured that we are palled from death to life, that is, from a bate of-nature into a Rate of grace, becaufe we love the brethren ; for ever re- member this, when all other evidences have failed, many, gracious Chriffians, and all other Texts of Scripture have afforded them no comfort here they have anchored here, they have found reit for their dihrefied fouls, and upon thi one fingle planck, this one evidence they have. fwatri fafely and cotnfortably unto-the haven lif'eterriar ilappinefS.- -Eve- ry real Chriftian hath in fome meafure, every fanaifying, grace in him ; as a child fo-foon as it is born is a perfea man, for integrity of parts and entirenefs of limbs, though not for bignefs and bulk of body, fo every regenerate perfoi-a, at r. ti the
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