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Rriles
to
help
foals in the way
of
hanging,
God
bath begun to
wo:tk
fame,
defiles
in
me,
I
hope that's.
grace
,and. if
I
have
but die
leafs
degree
of grace that will be
enough
to
bring nie
to
heaven, no,
I
have
delires, but
no-hing
fhall
quiet
my
foule,
until-
I
come
to the
obtaining of my
de-
fires.
Seventhly, Exercife
faith upon
Jefus
Clarïfi,
fo:
ri,
ghteouf-
nef
e,
that's the
way
to come
to
have,
thy
delires fatisbed,
thou
doed
ufe
means, yea
that
I
dare not
but doe,
my confcience
puts nie
'upon
it,
to pray, read, hear,
and
fo
to
ufe all
naeair
I
can,
but
yet
I
do not
linde
my
desire.fatislied. This therefore,
is
anotherrule,
thou mull in the
ufe
of
naeanes,
look
beyond
the
means,
and take
heed
of
telling
upon means,
as
well
as
up-
on
thy
delires, but
look up
to
Jefus Chriff from whole
fuln..41e
the
hearts of the
Saints
do receive
grace
for
grace:
The father
bath
put
afulneffe into
his Son,'
all
righteoutneife
is
in
Jefus
Chrid,
there's
all
grace,
righteoufinefie, and
holinefle
in
Chrdff
beyond
all
meafure;
Now the
way
to
atcaine
righteoufneffe
it
is
not meerly to pray, heare,
and
ufe
means, but
by an
eye of
faith
to
behold
Chrid
fill'd
full of
all
grace,
as a
Fountaine,
fo
that the
fouls
of
thole that
hunger and thirff
may
by
acing
up-
on him,
fetch grace
fr
©m
him,
and
fo
come
to be
fatislied,
it'
is
Chrid
that
is the
tree
of life, it
is
from
him
that
all
grace
doth
cone
into
the
foule. And
I
verily beleeve that there
are
many
kept under
a
great
fpirit of bondage
in
the-times of
their
hung-ring
and
thirfling,labouring
for
grace,
becaufe they
did
not
look beyond
nneanes,
they do not
look upon
Chrid
that is
the
founcaine
of
all grace
?to
ael
their
faith upon
him,they
think.
that they
muff have
righteoufneile before they come ro
Jefus
Chrid,
now
there's
a
mifiake, thou mull conic
to Chrill
that
thou mayed
have
righteoufneffe, for all righteoufneffe
is
in
him,
The truth
is,
there
is
no laving
righteoufneífe,
but
it
comes through union with
Jefus Chrift,itcoriaes from
commu-
nion with
JefusChriff,
it
conies from
the
Spiritof Chrid
let
into the heart,
and,
therefore the firff.ac fhould
be
a going
to-
Chrîtf
for
this
righceoufneffe: A6t
thy faith more
upon
Chrid,
labour
to
look upon
him
as
he
that
bath
all treafures of
grace
in
him from
theFather
on
purpofe to communicate
to
the
fouls
of
tüofe.