3fß i 4 graciou s fpirit, the creature, wee are quieted and fatif- fiad: whereas if our hearts vvere fully. after the Lord as they ought, vvhen vve are before him, vve íhould cry to him, as Mofes inanother cafe, Exod. 33. Exceptthy prefencegee withme, Lordfend mrnot hs'nce. 9. One that followes God fully, is vvilling to engage and binde himrelte to God, by the moff full and ftrong bonds, and engagements that can be; his fpirit is at the greatefl liberty vvhen he is molt firongly bound to the Lord. Thlt pace in the 2 Chron. 1 5.13. is very obfervLblefor this; ß.íffä and his peo- ple enter into a covenant to feeke the Lord God of their Fathers, vvith all their huarr, and vvirli all their foule; yet fo, as whofoever vvould not feeke the Lord God, fhould be put to death, vvhether fmall orgreat, man or vvo- man and they fware unto the Lord vvith. íhoutings, and vvith Ttumpets, and vvith Cornets: But were theynot afterwardstroubled, that they had tied and bound themfelves 1 Wou!d they not have thought it better to have been at mote liberty 1 No furdly, for verfe
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