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Wherein

the

fight

of

God is

a

bleffed

thing:

derftanding,

to

be

able

to

conceive of things,

why what

a

glo-

rious change

would

there

be

there

?

But

now when

God

gives

us

a

f

irituall

fight

of

hinifelfe,

there

is as

great

a

change,

and

that

is

aboundanrly

moreglorious,

and

more blefled

it

would

be

then the

adding

of

Peeing

to

a

nun

that never

had

fuch

a

fence,

or

the adding of

Reaion

to the

Bealts

;

---

It's

a

blelfed

thing

to

fee

Gof ,

and

that

we

find

in Scripture

fet out to

us

naan}'

wages.

As

I

rft,It

is

made

to

be

the fruit

of the Covenant

of

Grace;

howfoever men

may thinke

light of

it,

that doe not

know

it;

As

the

beafts

that

know not what reafon is,

they

are

not trou-

bled

for

the

want

of it,

and

if

we

had

not

knowne what the

fence

of

fight

meant,

we

fhould not

have

been troubled fot

the

want

of

it

;

fo

the

world

is

not troubled

for

the

want

of the

fight

of God,

becaufe

they

knowno

more what

it

meanes then

the

Beafts knowes

Reaion,

or

a

man

that

had

had

the

foure

fences could

have knowne

what

a

fift

had

meant

;

But the

Scripture

makes

it to

be

a

fruit

of

the Covenant of Grace,

in

teremy

mark how

the Lord

expreffes himfelfe,

Chap.

3/.

34.

They

(hall teach

no

more every

man his

neighbour,

and

every

man his brother,

fraying, Know

the

Lord

;

for they

(hall

all

know

me,

from the

leaf!

o

f

them

unto

thegreatet

of

them

faith

the

Lord

;for

I

willforgive

their

iniquity, and will

remember their

fin

no

more.

It's

a

fruit both

of

the Covenant

of

Grace,

and of

the

pardon

Of

fin,

that

is

the fpeciall mercy

in

the

Covenant.

The

reafon why

there

are

fo

many

of

you

that

know nor

God,

it

is

becaufe your iniquities are

not forgiven,but

God

remem-

bers

your fin, you are

not

in

Covenant with

God;

when God

brings

you

into Covenant with himfelfe,

and forgives

your

fin,

he makes you

to

know

himfelfe.

Secondly For

God

to reveale himfelfe, it

is

a

great fruit

Of

love;

of

the

love

of

God to the

foule, for

God

to

manifeft

himfelfe

to it. In

the

r

4

Ph:

it.

Ile

that

loath my

Commart-

dements

and

keepeth

them,

he

it

is

that

loveth

me

;

and

he

that

loveth me,

¡hall

be loved

of

my

Father,

and

I

will

love

hint

How will that be

manifeled

?

and will

manife

jt

my

fife

to

hm.

Chrifts

manifefting himfelfe

to

the foule,

is

a

fruit of

his love,

and

of

his Farhers

love.

Yea

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