A choice, :Bed of Spices. ratan roars, and the world fometimes frowns, and force- !Paw'. ties fawns, yet I am refolved to oxn thee as my only Lord, and to ferve thee as my only Lord; my greaten fear is of offending thee, and my .chiefea care fhall be to pleafe thee, and my only joy flail' be to be a praife, a name, and au ho- nour to the : -0 Lord, I can appeal to thee in the fincerity o f my east, that though I have many invincible \yealcnefleF, and infirmities, that hang upon me, and though I am often worfted by my fins, and overcome -`in an hour of temptation, yet thou that knoweff all thoughts and hearts, thou doll know that I have given up my heart to the obedi- ence of jefusChriff, and do daily give it up to his rule and 1/4.1. ) oov--nment and 'tis the earneff &fire of my foul, above all things in this world, that Jefus Chriff may '1611 fet up his Laws in my heart, and exercife his dominion over me- No v I doubtlefs there is not the weikeff Chriffian in the world, but can venture himfelf upon fuch an appeal to God as this is, and without all peradventure, where fuch a frame and temper of fpirit is, there the dominion of Jefus .Chrift is fet up ; and where the dominion of Chriff is fet up, there, fin hasno dominion ; but where the dominion of Chriff is hiat834. not fet up, there tin is in full dominion. Chriff's dominion cannot conliff with fins dominion, nor fins dominion cannot confiff with Ch:iff's dominion. Now by thefe eight things, if men are not refolved before hand to put a cheat upon; their own fouls, they may know whether their fins have do- minion over them or no, and fo accordingly conclude for or againit themfelves. But, Fifteenthly and lay, A godly man may argue thus.There Ins'. is no condemnation to them, who walk not after the Beth, but after the fpirit, Rom. 8. t. But I walk not after the fleth but after the fpirit, therefore there is.no condemnation to me. Walking after the fiefh, notes a courfe of fin and walking after the fpirit, notes a courfe of godlinefs I :Now to fuch as keep off from a courfe of fin, and that keep on in a courfe bf.godlinefs, there is no condemnation, there is not one condemnations for God the father won't condemn fuch a perfon, nor Jefus Chrift won't condemn filch a perfon, -.nor the 47 Walking in Scri- pture, fignifies to hold on a caurfe of life,Gen &17.1.
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