How the foldc pas forth it fetfc in -hrtngrrng, it'd here for all the world as it. was with. è A6rekam, God makes a promife to Abraham, that he íhould have a feed in whom all the Nations of the world ihould be Bleifed ; novv Abraham tay'd a great while after the pronaife: vvas nude, and he began ro grow very ancient, and his Wife paú- bearing after the manner of women, and no child comes, why now upon this c:/16rah <m's faith begins fomewhat to f}agger and faile, and therefore e/f6raham goes. into his hand - maid Hagar; Sarahs faith, the begins tirft to ftagger, and the would give ro 4braham Haar, that he might bring forth children from Hagar ; why Abraham dotti it, I but he (florid have ftay'd till the time of Gods fullbiling his pro- miìe had come, for though e/lbrahamt had a child of Hagar, yet that was not the promiied feed , and the Nations of the earth couldneverbe bleffed by that child, but afterwards comes he childwhich he had by `Sarah, and that was the promifed feed. -I make ufe of this becaufe I, find the Holy Giof} cloth make ufe of it, the Holy Ghoft compares the Law tta Hagar, and the'Gofpel to Sarah,and the fruit that came by the Law bred unto bondage faith he ; but that that conies by the Gof gel, is the bletfed feed indeed ; It's thus with a foule that's hungring and thirf}ing a_fcer righteoufneffe, and would faine conic to have ali nude even between God and it felfe, the %di is 1 Ping of tneans praying, and attending Upon the wa -rd; and. faith,: O thatGerl would reveale no : me his mercy in Chrif},gildgrithisJuftice isficisfiid E forme in Chriff, 0 he5Wharipy ilittu d I be. Bui now when the foule hath_been a i<zg time Peeking after affurance of mercy this way, through tri iirghttounelle of Jufni Chrif}, and cloth not ftnd,;a reali wroth upon it, the foule is Weary, `andtiow it .goes as ;it were iiib09ritr, goes and fedkes for IIhi4 bleííecliailfe, by fome fitwrICsof the Lim, that is: by .rdorirting its life, an! be, o° iierwife then itwas, and fim refeitig in an outward, civill or morrali iigh eoufmf e. ; -This is to be fo weary of .waiting , as ro gtse4frio.n this bl ßfí feed , frail that right,,,c uthcff that ifttAtlt make di _,foul ;blelfed for :ever, Kka to
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