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HoIv

th'

footle

ptctr

forth

-it

fetfe

2 x

r

jufl

here

for

all'the

world

as

it

was

with

abrcham,

God

makes

a

promife

toe4braham,

that

he fhould

have

a

feed

in

whom

all

the

Nations

of

the world fhould

be

Bleifed

;

now

Abraham tlay'd,

a

great

while

after the

pronaifc

wasE

made,

and he began

to

grow very ancient, and his

Wife

pal

bearing after

the

manner

of

women, and

no

child comes,

why

now upon this

4brah

<m's

faith begins fomewhat

to

flagger

and

fails,

and

therefore.4braham

goes

into

his

hand

matd

Hagar

-;

Sarah5

faith, file begins

íìr8 to dagger,

and

the

would

give

to

4bralum

Haar,

that

he

might

bring

forth

children

from

Hagar

;

why

Abraham

doth

it,

I

but he

fho.ld

have

flay'd

till the

time

of

Gods-

fullt.11ing

his pro-

mi.e had come, for though

Abraham

had

a

child

of

Hagar,

yet that

was

not the

promised

feed,

and

the

Nations of

the

earth could never

be

bleffed.by that child,,

but

afterwards

comesthe

child

which

he

had

by

Sarah,

and

that

was

the

promifed feed.

I

make

ufe

of this becaufe

I,

find

the

Holy

Ghr

l

loth

make ufe

of

it,

the

Holy

Ghofl

compares the Law

to

.

lagAr,

and

the'Gofpelto

Sarah,and the fruit that

came by

the

Law

:bed

unto bondage

.lairh

he;

but that

that

conies

by

the

,off;el,

is

the

blefld

feed indeed

;

It's thus

with

a

foule

that's

hungring and

thirfting after

righteou'fneffe,

and would

faine

comae

to

have

all

niade

even

between

(mod -and

it

felfe,

the

foule isaafingoftneans1 praying, and

attending'

upon

the

mod;

and

faith,

O

tharGodwould

ree

ale,io

,me-his

mercy

in

Chrifi,

and

that

his

JufU

ce

iifatisfied

for

me

in

thrift,

'O

ttaitpy

should I

be.

Áut'now.when

the

foule hath

been

a

lng

rime leeking

after

aífurance

of

mercy this

way,

through

-riglteauhnette of

Jefus Chrifl,

and Both

not

find, real!

wo

oprettt

it, the

foule

is

Weary,

:andsïow

it

:goes

as

it

were

i

t

pit,-

.:goes and feekes

for

chid bk1fec

life

by

fame

_vvók

:

of the

Lam,

that

i

,.

by7aeforiniw its;

life

,

and

be-

ing-

cehercoife

than is

:svgs, smd

fm.

tefiing

in

an

outward,

'ctvill

or

morrall

i

ebufneffe

;

This

is

to be

weary

of

evattt g

,

as

to

goe.7fpont

this

bleffed feed

,

fran

that

ti'hrï<.tìutne`fe

that

'Iona,

mike

.thy foal .blelfed

focdevet,

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