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GJ '~,1ce a!Jo~ndin(l
.
0
1\1Jn
Chrift Jefus')as be
is
difi:intt front
ns
7
as·
touching his
bodily
prefence, fo he is our
·
P~ighteoufi1efs
and
Sanctification
before God,
t1ere therefore I li
v
ed,for fotne
ti
n1 e, very
fweetly at peace with God
through
Chrifr;O
n1ethought
ChriH:
!
Chrift!
there
was
nothing
but Chrift that
\Vas
before
my·Eyes,I
was not
(now· only) for
108king
~pen
this and the o...
·ther
benefits
o(
Chrift
31Jart;as
of
his Blood,
B]rial,or H.efprreftion,bt1t confidered
him
as
whole Chrifr; as
he in
vy
born all thefe, and
all his other
Vertues;--1telations,
011ices
and
Operations
ri1et
to,Qether
and that as he
fat
on
the right hanQ of God in
I-leaven.
2
33·
'Twas glorious to
n1e
to
fee
his exal–
tation,and the vvorth and prevalency of all
his benefits, and that becaufe
no~!
con id look
from
111Y
felf to
hin1,
and
fhould .reckon,
that
all thofe
Graces
of God tint now
V,;
ere green
on n1e, \vere
yet but like thofe crackt-groats
and four pence half.. pence,
that rich
men
car–
ry in their Purfe-s, when their Gold
,is
in their
Trunks at
hon1e
!
0, I
:(:1
w
n1y
gr)ld
was in
· n1y
Trunk at
hon1e!
in
Chri11
n1y
Lord and
5aviour!
Novv
Chr1ft
was all;
all
n1y
\Vif–
dom,
al11ny
Righteot~ ft1efs.,
ail
n1y-Sac1if1ca· ·
·rion, and all
n1y
Rede rupti9n.
2
34·
Further,
1-.he
Lord
did
alfo
lead
r'1e.
into
the
1V1yftery
of
llnion vvith the
Son
of
/–
God, that 1 was
joy
ned to hirn,
t
hat.I
V\
as
flelh of his flefh, and bone of his bone, and
now was that a fvveet word to me,
in
Ephef.