304 Dkooks's Paewel Sermon. Leg. 2 i. Make much onfelenceof making good the tc trues on which yon doled with Cthrili :you know the ternoJidw) that youmould deny your ftives, take up his Croft, and fillow the Lamb wherefoever he lhould go : Now you are put to take tip the Crofs,,,to denyyour telves,to follow the Lamb over hedg andditch, through thick and thin,elo not turn your backs on Chrili: .the word ofChria is better then the belt dfthe world : make conscience ofmaking good your terms, to denie your fdf, your natural Pelf, your finful felt, your religious tell, and to follow him : and if y.:u do ic, oh!! what an honor will it be to Cbrill, and advantage to your fouls, and a joy ty the upright ! Leg. 26. Walk by no rule but Inch as you dare dy by, and - Rand by in the great day of yefus Cbrift. You may hive rcanv wayes preicribed to ?vorihip by : but walk by none but ii:eh as you dare die by, and Rand by, before jefu.3 Christ : walk not by atuultitude,for who dare fraudby that rulr,when he comes to dy. Makenot the example of great men a rule to go by : for who dare dye by, and Rand by this, in the great day of account ? Do not make any authority, that flands in oppofition to the authority of tariff, a rule towalk by : for who dare {land by this, -befolc Jefus ChriR e Ah firs,walk by no rule, but what you dare dye by, and Rand by at the-great day. Leg. 27. And billy, fit down, and rejoyce with fear. Pfai, Let the Righteous reilce, but let them rejoyce with fear. Rejoyce that God bath done your fouls good by the everlaftingCofpel : that he did not leave you till he brought you to an acceptanceof, to a doling with, and a refignation of your fouls to Chrift, and the clear. -ingupof your intereR in him. Rejoyce, that you have had thee- verlailing Gorpei in fo much light, puritie, power, and glorie, as you have had for many years together. Re'ioyce in the riches of grace, that bath carricd,it in fuch a way towards you. And weep that you have proVoked God to take away the Gofpel, that you have no more improved it, that ou have fo neWe6ted the feafons and opportunities of enriching your fouls. Whenyou fhould.have come to the Church- fellowlhip, any thing would turnyou out of the way. Gh,fir down, and tremble under your barrenneffe, under all your I eanneffe not, withilanding,alithe Loft and charge that God bath been at, that you have grown no more into communion with God, and conformity to God, and into the livelyhope of the everlaRingfruition ofCod. Here are your Legacies, and the Lord make them to work in your fciuls, :and then they will be of lingularufe toyou, to preferve- you fo, that yournaygive up your accountbeore the great and glorious God-with joy
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