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On
the.
Excellency
of
Chri,
167
now hee can
deny himfelf
of
any thing
:
As
wee read
of
Chriff
that
when
bee
commanded the winds
and
the
waves,
the
Text faith
,
all
people
wondred
at
him
:
So
when
the
'winds
of
thy padïon are
up
,
if
thou canft
but
bid them
bee.
Rill,
all would wonder at
it
:
Oh how
comes
there
fo
great
a change
!
fuch
a one that
was
im-
patient
before
in
any
fuffering
,
now
what ever bee fuf-
fers
,
how
like a Lamb
is
bee
,
and
opens
not
his
mouth!
Now
in
the midft of affiidions, and
pains
,
and
troubles,
bee
can lye rejoycing and praifing
God
;
And
fuch
a
one,
though
bee
bath never
fuch
firong
temptations
to
draw
him
on the other
fide
,
yet
now
hee can
refift the
firongeft
temptations
;
before,
if
a
companion did but hold
up
his
finger;
lee
muff
go,
but
now
I
fay
hee can re-
fit}
firong
temptations
,
and
oh
how
bee
accounts
it
hic
glory and happinefle
:to
fuffer
for Jefus
Chria:
Now
this doth
manifea Chri
?t
a
wonderful
Saviour.
As
it
way
.
the
fpeech
of
a
Heathen
1
,
feeing
the
Chrifiians fuffer
with
fo
great patience
,
hee cries out
,
Of
a
truth,
the
God
of
the
Chri
ftians
is
a great
God
,
that
Both
finable
them
to
d
fuch
great
things
:
So
thou midi
fo
walk
in
thy
life,
that thou.muft
manifeft
that Jefus
Chnil
is
a
wonderful Saviour.
And
bee .a!hamed
to
complain
of
any difficulty in
a-
ny duties
that
thou art fet
about
;
thou art
fet
about
fuch
a
duty,
and
oh
thou complaineft they
are
hard, and
difficult
,
and
tedious
!
Is it
for thy Saviour
that
thou
doeti
it?
thou fhouldefi
bee
willing
to
go thorow
fire
and water;
and in
this one
thing
the
wonderfulnefs
of
the
change, of
a
foul
doth
appear
as
much
as
in any
thing
, That
thofe things
that
before were
accounted
burdens,
now
the
foul
accounts
them
as
a
priviledge
,
and
the joy
of
its heart
;
others
cannot do
fo
:
Now
the
Gof-
pel
makes fuch
a
change, and
in
this
change
of thy heart
3
and
of
thy
life,
Jefus Chrift
is
held forth
in the
world
to
be
a
wonderful
Saviour
;
but now,
if
thou
cant}
do no
more
.