ThePrtfo&e. _ S fie hearts., thiswould giue themno reil, neither durll they a– bide the face oftheirawne confciences, hut were driuen to acknowledge the filchineffe of their.finnes •. And fo in the rell ofthe Cotntnaundements. . Furthermore,·all the punilhtn:ent$·that are at any tin>e in-. flietcd vpon the world,haue cor:he fto\n the difobediencea– gainll this law; arid all the m~r ie$and bene~cs that me~ enioy, proceed from the obedtence yeelded to tt. For vvhen ·. God fets downe his curfes and his bleffings, doe they not runne thus? If thou obferue andkeepe thefe Commaunde.. Deuro2B• . ments,then thou fualtbe bleffed,in foule, in bodie, in children,io cattell, in fi~ld, in all things thou puttefl thine hand . vnto. Contrariwife, if thou wilt not obey, but neglectelt them,then fbalt thoubecurfed inall things. Lafiiy,Chrifl himfelfe came into the World tokeepe thefe lawes•.For·they require a perfctt a~d abfolute obe.dienGe, as. t·hey are perfeCt: which feeing no man could doe, therefore Chrifl tooke our flelh vpon him to fulfill them ;·that as eA--· damby his difobedience had caH vs out of Paradife, fo he byhis obedience might bring vs into heauen: and h.e came– not onely. to performe them himfelfe fuHy·,but alfo to make . his Saints able to obey them,though not iil perfeCtion, and · without any defect; (for that onely he himfelfe candoe) yet · in truethand fitlceritie; for that he requireth ofall his mem"' hers. ·si?ce·thereforeGod hath had fuch fpeciall regard"in-de- Vtc.ro ·. liuenng thefe lawes,we mu-ll hence learnc,vvith al reuerence to -hearken vnto them,and willingly to beare theadmoniti- - ons and rebukes that-ar-e contained in them-: whofoeuer we·· be.,a·ndwhatfoeuer he is that applieth them and fpeaketh . themvnto vs~ And in fo-clehtg, wee ffiall in truth{he\tv·our-· felues to beleeuc,that God is the author .of th·efe wor~ds,Jf · we canbe ·cont~nc to endu-re that the le precepts-th()uld be preffed and vrgedvpotlvs, though by one that·is ourinf~- riour,and baferin outwatd refpetls than our felues. When:, . .EbNd;amanofmeane llOte, cam~ to 3' Headneniffi kinga~d , . .bar.bar?u.styrant, bringing a m·effage. from God, hee ar~fe' f~om. hts throne:~ to,;attcnd vnto it. htd-.3.20. Yea whenwic· ktd:
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