Cb p,4a. n Expo¡ition upon the Book of j o a. Verf. 9. thy might. It is not hearing and praying., but thefe in love, which is the fulfilling of the commandement. Everydutymutt bemixt alfo with love- to man. We may do many things com- manded CO men, yet, if we do them not in love to men, we do nothing as the Lord commandeth. Thusthe holy Apoftle con- cluded peremptorily (t Cor. r 3, s.) Though 1 fpeak, with the tongue of men and angels, &c. and have not charity, I am become as founding braf}, or a tinkling timbal ; and though I bellow all my goods r to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burnt, and have not chïsrity, it profiteth nothing. Thirdly, To do all that the Lord commands according to the inward manner, is to doall inhumility ; that is, Firfl, Acknow- ledging that we have no power of our own todo any thing; Se- condly, That we have deferved nothing, how much foever we have done, or howwell foever we have done ir. Thus in doing the Lords commands we fhouidlabour to anfwer the mind ofthe Lord fully, and ro hit every circumfiance, to omit nothing, no not the left thing. Mofes (Exod. to. 16.) being to carry the people of Ifrad out of Egypt, would not compound the matter with Pharaoh : Ye may go laid Pharaoh (alter he had been brokenby feveral plagues) ó ry let your little ones flay; no, faith Mofes, that is not as the Lord hack commanded me.And at another time, he Paid, Go, only let your cattle flay ; no, faith Mofes, this is not as the Lord commanded, I will not leave fo much -as a hoof behind me. And fo Paid Moles concerning the obfervances of the law, For, thus I am commanded, or this is as the Lod commanded, as we read all along the books of Exodt t andLeviticus. We are not full in our obedience, till we obey fully. It is'faid of Caleb (Num. 14. 24.) Helmut another [pint, he followed the Lord fully, that is, as to matter and manner, as to out-fide and in-fide. Let us labour to be full followers of God; not out-fide followers of God only, butin-fide followers. Let us not .reft in the in-fide, when we are not tight in the out-fide, nor pleafe our feives with anout-fide fervIce, when weare care- lefs of the inward. Thus of their obedience, as confidered in general,Tbey did accordingat theLord commanded. Further, confider their doing at the Lordcommanded them in that fpec al matter, their reconciliation, first tohimfelf, and then to lob, Hence 919
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