.. "' ~!. ~ !:~ ·~~:~ ~: ;~ .''·i '. ">! ' ' Wi!full Impenitt11CJ mock at my Children fiill ? Doft thon walk in thefe wayes and hope to find God ? No ; as good .cut offaDoggs neck, as give him facrifice of Prayer~, as long as you walk in ·your own wayes. E[ay .66. ~·You muft feekhim in the wayes that he walksin~ ~n~ ~not chufeyour own wayes, hee'l never come out of his way for any of you all; what fhall I do Lord ? fay(s S~tul, he would fain have fpoken with God- there-. No, no .; go to AnanitU, &c. if thou wilt not feek him in his way, thou art well ferved if thou miife{l: hi m. I befeech you confider this point, you can ne– ver look to be faved, except you'l fet'yowr felves to do what you may, and ufe a11 thofe means - that you may ; for though the ufe of the means does not fave you,yet they are the way; though not~aufa regnandi, yet 11ia regm; and if you will not conUantly ufe them, you can .neverhave his Kingdom. / · · · · Reafens of it. , firfr, becaufe Heaven is an end,and an end can never be gor;en without means ; the em\ is eter· nallife. Ram 6. 22 1 eternal life is an ·end, and ~herefore except the means be all ufed, you can never attain it. Secondly, God bathAnnexe ait ·to the means ; all Heaven and E~rth can never feparate them; either ufe . all the means that God bath .appointed, or elfe he hath decreed-it , ye (hall never be faved. When he bath once appoin:– ted thefe and thefe fuall be your means, thefe . fhall you ufe for it, ye fnall never be faved · · without . \
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