vG /'..o. a v V X tC J they are his friends, they are his Cubicas, they are his fer- writs, his children, his Spoufe, yea, the members of his ovine body, according to the raying, Hee that touchethyoga, toucheth the apple ofhis eye. Sea this point handled Chap.g. verl t To:. 3. and Chap. t o. verí 9. Heekeepeth, &c.] God watcheth as much ouer his peo- ple to defend them from lìnnc as from any bodily danger. True it is that he d. -th not fence them from the pra i1èof all lauts,that they lhould tranfgretfenone ofhis Common- dements; neyther cloth he worke in them fuck a compete obedience that they fitould exaaly performe euery dude : for that were to crake them perfect before the time of per. fec4ion; but hee freeth them from the dominion ofall euill, and inclineth their hearts both todedire and endeuour to be entire in all goodnetle, and when they doe ought which is forbidden, or falle of that which is cornmanded,he refcueth them from the power andguiltinef e of their finnes by re- rrttance, and then they are Cafe and in as good eí ate, as if they had neuer offended. This did Paul [cane, when hee brake out ofan exclamation into a thankefgiuing, flying; O wretchedmans that I am, who 'hall deliuer mefrom the body of this death ? I thanhe God through lefsts Chrif our Lord. And of this proteaion bee glorieth when hee faith, Who 'Taal/feperatevsfrom the loue ofChrif ?"hall tribulation, or an- eui/h, or persecution, &c ? In all there things wee are more than concluereurs through him that louetb vs. And to this belon- getb !hat of the Prophet, Thine caresfall heare a wordbe- hinde thee favin ;This is theway ,walkeyee in it, when thou tur- nett to the right hand, andwhen thou turnef to the left. Reade a SAM. z, 9._ Luke t. 79. PJ.I. Z5. 9 and 27. to. t r. and 73 23.24. Firt}, hee propofeth that end %vhenfoeuer bee fuccoureth any of his, that they (mould the more farthfully obey lim, and flye from [inne, as our Text witnctTethswhen it faith;, He is a ;Veldto them that walkevpriçhtly, that they nztly keepe the pathes of iudgement.AndZachary,Iohn the BaptiJ7s Father, celebrateth his rneruailous m:rcy,ingrauntingveto vs, that 33' Ce Zach. d. Do£fr. .. Ttcm, %, z.{. 25. ifay eafon.r..
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