Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v7

722 Chap. z6. An Expafition upon theTook of ,n'$ FJerf>z,. ana hwri of their pretest attainments, and perfections in Ipiritu alts ;Mow ye are full, nowyou are rick; ye have reigned like Kings without tea, and I would to Çod that ye did reigne, that we ,eight": reig.,e withyou ; As if he had Paid, I could wifh with all my bear., itwcre as well with you as you think it is, that we alto alight h .ve a part with you in thofe gloryes of the Gofpel; But h feare } e are one]}' puff up with notions, and that your portion is but ;mall in true folid fpiricual knowledge. I feare ye have little except in conceit; and there ye have a great e!ealetoo much; and upon the fame account he puts it upon them againe at the i.orh 'we're Gv^ are foilsfor C. r;f i f ake, but ye are wife in C'britt; we are 'rake, bur ye apt flrong,ye are yneurable, but we are de/piled. TlLu. 7 b here, ye look upon me as a weakeroan, as a manofno powe but you are wif.,and learned ; fee how ye have played: your pa t, and ddch;.,g.d your duty; you think you have a won. de. ful faccuity in helping the weake,in Paving thofe who are rea- dy to pr,fh,in teaching the unlearned,in counfelling the unrcife;. whereas I am neither fo.weak, nor ignorant, nor detiituce of counfol as you thinke I am ; and if 1 were,your oration is wideof the marke ol. reacheth not my cafe, and therefore' n dome no good. How haft thou helped him that bath no power ?And which is the fame in other words ; Howfavef thou the arme that kath no t rengrh The arme is aneminent member of the body, and in Scripture k often lignifies flrength,hccaufe the armhoLfth out and acaeth the ftrengthof the whole body; How bKff Now Paved the arme that bath noltrengtb?that is,the man that bath no ftrength. There h a threefoldEfrength ; fi It, natural, which is twofold ; fieft, of the mindor inward parts;fecondly,ofthe body or outward partst fecondly, there is a civil] ftrength, which is the command or Au- thoritywhich a n an bath over others. thirdly, there is a fpiritual ftrength, which is the command which a man bath over himfelf, both in doing good and in avoyding evill,or both for the due en- toymentofgood and indnringofevil.When,7obíaith,Hw fay(ft thou the arrive that bath noftrength ? we may expound it both of the finit and third fort offtrength. For 94 had indeed loft the itrengeh ofhis.body, and his friends thought he had loft the iirength both ofhis parrs and graces. Which is more cleare in the ;iFx; interrogation,. Vert, 3:..

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