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on
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
opens
to
receive
in, to
imbrace,
to
bee fatisfied with all,
as
all
the good
and liappinefs
I
expe6;
and it
is
Chritt
that
my
heart
opens
to, to
fave mee
from
my
fin,
as
well
as
from
punifhment,
to
unite mee to God, to
bring mee to
u-
nion
with
him,
that
I
may
live
for
ever
to
the
praife of
the
great God;
and
it
is
this Chrifl that
I
take
into
my heart
to
bee King and Governour
,
and now
to
rule
:
Sin,
Satan,
Temptations,
Lids,
(hall not
reign
as
they have done,
but
Chriil
Chaff
fet
up
his own
Government
in
my foul.
--
Now
then,
upon
this
mull needs follow
wonderful and
glorious
effects
upon
the foul,
the
foul
that
doth beleeve
fach
high
things
as
thefe
are,
and
doth
open
it felf
to
receive
Chrifi
upon
fuch
tearms,
certainly,
I
fay,
there
muff
needs
bee
wonderful
effects
wrought in
that
foul;
fuch
things
muíl
needs
work
the
foul up
to
God,
to live to
him
in
another
manner than ever,
and
that
is
the reafon
of
the
Scripture
.
Car.
5.
t7.
expretfion,
whofeevar is in
Chrifi,
is
a New
Creature
, all
old
things are pafi
away,
and
all
things
are
become new.
For
why?
the.
Lord
bath
revealed
new glorious things
to
fuch
a
foul,
and the Lord therefore
now
aCis
and carries on the
foul
to
o-
ther
manner of
objets
than
ever before
it
was
wont
to
bee
buffed
about.
p---
And
fuch
a
kinde
of
work
of Faith
is this,
that
is
the
foundation
of the great
work
of
falvation
next
to
Jefus
Chrift himfelf,
as
the
old
muff
bee rafed down,
fo
a
new
muff
bee raifed up.
Now
when
you
come
to
think
of
falvation, that
you
hope
to
bee faved,
you
mua
have recourfe
to
fuch
a kinde
of
work
upon you,
as
this; how have
'felt
the
power of
the
Holy
Ghotl
'rafing
down
old
things
?
and
how
have
I
felt
the
power
of
God,
even that
power by which
7efsu
Chrifi
was
railed from
the
dead, to raife
fuch
a
foundation
as this
is
?
-
--
And
upon
this now followes
the
work
of
Humiliation
and
Repentance,
that
is,
Cody
forrow;
and
fo
to mourn,
as
to
have
the
heart
to
bee
taken
from
its
former
courfes
and
waies, and bee
fet
upon
the
contrary
good
:
-
--
Now
when the
foul
finds
fach
workings
of God
upon
it
(as cer-
tainly
thefe
thingscannot
bee, and no notice
at
alF
taken
of