iti# ovipwiPONer0Te,:. '01 3, here is,,Cpt6p14tio4 4,) Gods people, Is the heart- ofman a LooknIg,glafs ? Wilatreafon have they to rejoyce in their hearts, that are the best Looking,glaffes in the world ? not like our Gat, lints Looking-glaffes,that mutt not bewray their wrinkleS,fpots,d-c. But theirs will reprefent their Heart, Complexion, condition and Nature to them ; Nay, in that Glafs may be peen the face ofa Gott; Nay further, becaufe .thy heart loth answer to another heart, and his.tahis, whatever grace in any Believers, it is there in thy heart, fernine there's the feed. 4. By way of Exhortation ; Is the heart a Looking-glafs ?. then keep tue Looking-glafsvery chary, make much of it, above all .keepings keep thyheart, and that with all diligence, in all placets at all. Mmes, and in all things, Ifany thing unner Heaven will keep thee holy,. it is the keeping ofthy heart.. There thou mayea fee all thy fpots, defe6ts; desperate Hypecrilies, Tnfernal Atheifm, all the deliquei of thy Soul ; how prone to commit as vile tins as.ever corn, milted by the vileit of theSons of men ; .0ncemore keep it clean and keep it clOfe Look into the heart, and thou (halt find it to he a Copy of Roul of Eternity, where thou.fhalt fee thy very name written in Letters of Gold or Blood.; for we loOking into ourheart,, .,may, and do know, that we are palled from death to live, and that upon this ground, becaufe we love the Brethren. And thus I aek,- yance to . The Fifth Sermon. I John 3. 14. We know that we have pafled from death to life; becaufe we love the Brethren, . 1 N thefe words five things. 1 I . e.A.rappored Efl,:ge, in which we are all by nature, and that is anEfiate ofdeath jpiritual. z. ' peaceable Recovery, ormention ofanother Itate, an Ettate of - 3 ..A real rranfiticmfrom this date ofdeath to life, we are paled,&c. 4. An infeparable property ofall Regenerate Souls in the world, they do not hateibut love the Brethren. S. AComfortable C'onckt/iort, that a Chriltian may make from that property, he may know, I.e may be allured by this, t':ait he is pagre'd from-death to , Lecaufe he loves the:Brethren. The 'obfervaton thus, A t hriflian may know his real Converlion and Trewfrion to eta.- life,17 this CharaFler azxong the refl., becaufe he loves the Bra-bred.. This propel-kiwi:was flips into tbeCe two particulars. That every Believermay.have an afforance, of his Tranfition pow ,death-tolife. 2. not love is the...0:ethrear -keno' ofthe great eminent Symptoms 1#401; Regeneration. D d d z /4-
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