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Confiderations
to fiapport
the
hearts of
thole
that
hanger &c,
call'd
the fheep, the
Cheep
would come
after them
(as
when
you call
a
dog)
and
therefore
faith
Chrift,
My
fheep
heare
my
vice,
and
they
will follow
me
;
Suppofe when
the
fhepheard
came,
a
great
part
of
the
flock carne
after the
fhepheard
upon
his call,
but
one or
two
fheep that were
intangled
in
the
bry-
ars, and
were firiving
and
firugling
to
get
out of
the
bryars,
but
could nor, they
knew,
the thepheards voice,
and
would
have followed
the
f
hepheard,
but when they fee they
cannot
follow him, then they
fall
a
bleating
and crying
after the
fheF-
heard, till the ihephèard
rake
notice ofthem,
and when
this
fhephcarct comes
to
the
place,
and fees
the
poor cheep
1aboG-
ring to
get after the
flmpheard,
will
he not
pitty
this
fheep,
and
fo
untangle
it
from
the
bushes
that it
is
got
into
:
This
is
the
poor weak Chrifiians cafe
that
is
got into the
bryars of
forre corruption,
and
intangled
in
fome
ditfemper
of
heart
or other,
and
Chrifi
calls
to the
foule and
the
foul knowes
the
voice
ofChrifi
and loves
Chrifi,and
it
would faine follow after
Chrift
whofe
voice
it
hears,and
the
foul is
tugging
and firiving
but
it
is
got
into
the
bryars: now
Chrifi
hears
the
voice of
this
fheep,
and comes and fees
it
in
the
bryars and obferves
how
it
would
faine
get after
him,
and
pirtyes this poore cheep,
and
fo
at length gets
it
out
of
the bryars, and doth
provide for
it
as
much
as
for any of
the
ocher
:
If
this
be,
thy condi
ion
though
Grace be not
come
yet,
yet
from
thy delire
thou mayft
have comfort,
and
comfort
from this
very
text
,
Bleffed
are
they
that
hunger and thirty
after
rig'hteoufne e,
for
they
(hall
6e
fates.
f
ed,
SERMON