yi 380 Mr. Lye's Summary Rehearral Secondly, We mint labour co approve our felves true Gelpel.hear. ery : And to that end a. We mua be mikefss/ hearers : 'cis dangerous fleeping by a Candle fet up by God. 2. We mull be reverend hearers : in the fear of God we mutt wor. (hip, though not tormrels, yet in his holy Temple. 3. Attentive hearers, our ears and hearts fhould be like Lydia's; open to attend to thofe things fpoken by Paul, 441; 16. a 4. 4. K:ceplive hearers : We mull rake in what we hear, "las 2. 41. And ths mud be done with Faith, wish Love, with Joy, with 'De- light ,vvith iiIeeknofe, with particular Application and this coo, not as the word of filch a man, or fuch a Minifler : I abhor that wicked notion among you, the head of fuch a party, and I know not what : Bur, as it is in deed and in truth the Word of God : That man ne- vet hears as a Saint, that when he hears, loth not look nobly at the Word, as it is the Word of the God of And if thus we ap- ply our felves to the Ordinances truly, we are in immediate capacity to have the.Glbry, Spirit, and Power of Chria tomil upon us in hearing : And this leads me to The fecond Sermon, 2 COT. r 2. 9. Moll gladly therefore will Irather glory inmy infirmi- ties, that thepower of Chriii. may reft upon me, Rom this Text, youhad this truth, That a Ckrifilans chiefefi- ry under his infirmities, is in the power of(brill. ruing upon him. In cue profecution ofthisPoint,there was thefe four particulars pro7 pounded to be opened andprofecuted. Firff; ,wh,.#, kind of power ofChrig it is which (braflians may hope to have ekperieneeof, notwithgandii2- all their infirmities ? To this Queftion it - was thus anfwered : a power chat Chr;fi bath with his Father,. with. whom he is extraordinarily prevalent, more than the fondling is with hisdeareft affeftionate Mother : Apower of Chri'lls Spiilt, which enables us to do what -Go.; requires, and to fnffer what God commands:: a powerful applicationof Jefus Chrift himfelfun- tohis people, and that, not only of light to them, but of living, of fpiritual growth, offpiritual flrength, of flrength unto Conquea, yea-tobe more: thin (COnquero < Secondiy ;: What is':it,for the- power', ffcbrefi to refl on the foul ? "411 Eirtlmt464-' .1; a {or the power of Cliiiitto,coine and take its refi- dence in the foul : to make the foul ,to be that which a Tent or Ta- bernacle,
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