_ of the *Morning-Exert:re. 3 9 r i. Live in the holy hepeaciaacc , and filial fear of the great God : he that fears God moll, tobeifure will faint Icel. 2, Strengthen grace : there are two graces to be flrengthened,viz. Strengthen I kad fainted unlep I had believed, &c. Strength- en tience: ,dejeaion of foul ufually comes from impatience, 3. Be mach in prayer : Is any man affiitted , let him (not go and finfully fnivil arid complain, but let him ) pray. 4. Make ufe o heart-arengthning confiderattons; and that is, z. Turn over the promifes : they are left on purpofe as Gods hot. tie, his vial ofcordials to keep the foul from fainting. z. Whatever befalls, remember it proceeds fromGods love. 3. All that God aims at, is, todo thee good. 4. Be the affliaion never fo great, 'cis as necefiary as profpericy, as health : this thy Pitycfik is as neceffary as thy food. 5. The iffue of all, a Crown of glory : Thefe light affliaions which are but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory. And therefore , iffo be there be fuch principles from which affliaions flow , and fuch ends to which they are managed : °tic no wonder Chrift will not pray that we may be taken out of the world from afiliaion , but keep in this world from the evil : So we fall on The Ninth Sermon. John 17. it 5. /pray not that thou fhouldefl take them out ofthe troll but that thou fhouldeft keep themfrom the evil. GOD hath fpoken once , yea twice have I heard this , that power belongeth toGod. When God is pleafed to LI, ike twice upon the fame itritig , it feems he hath fomething more than ordinary mind that you fhould obfetve the tune. The Doarine was , That it is the will of Jefus Chrift , that his fervants fhould. continue in the world, though they meet withnothing but trouble in the world. /pray not that thou (hoaldeft take them out ofthe 'orld: Let them flay. Lord, be thou but their Pilot and then keep thern at Sea as long as thou wilr.Godknows his Saints are very ferviceahle in their generation : they are as it vt were a pillar of fire unto the ref} of the world for guide and light : by their d oet rine and converfation they inftrua the godly, and convince the wicked : God will have his people flay in the world , thlt his power providence, mercy , and goodnefs in their prefervation may more Aearly he difcoveted; that their aftliEtions here rn,ywork out for them an eterm i weight of glo- ry there are the Reliong Iffby G.A. will have them flay in he world, etc, Then Ee e z . Saints
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