CHRIST'S ,/llarna heard mee,but loch and fuch will not heart me. A melrenger is bound to give an account unto him that fends him:nay the d-evill himfelfe returned to give an account ; when the Lord Pent him to tempt lob,he came againe,and told what he had done,lob z.r. when the children of Dan fent fpies to fearch the land, they came and gave up their account. The very de- vill may teach us this leh en, to goe and give Chrift account of what we have done. We fee there how they that had received the Talents, how they came and gave in their ac- count, Lord thy pound hath gained ten pounds. Fourthly, another Lift is to you ; what a great mercy is this, that Chrift thould fend onto fuch as you be ? If Chrift had lent unto you, when yee had fought him and turned un- to him, it had been very much, but that hee fhoald dilpatch meftengers to you, when yee had not a thought of him , nay, when yee finned againfi him , O what a great mercy is this! It was a great kindnes, that lofeph would fend unto his Fa- ther, and his brethren, and bid them leave all, and come in- to the Land of Egypt , and willed them that they fhould not care for their (tuffe, for the belt of the land of Egypt (hall be yours, yee know his Brethren were unkinde unto him. Beloved, Iefeph was never fo unkindly dealt with by his Brethren, as Chrift bath been by us, and yet that bee fhould fend to fuch wretches as we are: O leave all, and come un- to me, regard not your lluffe, regard not your profits, ne- ver trouble your (elves with this thing and that thing, for all the bell of heaven fhall be yours. O what an infinite kind.. refle is this ! when he will fend fuch treafures of his to us, by his Minilters. As Iofeph filled his Brethrens lacks with corne, which they carryed to their Fathers houfe,in Canamt, to prefer ve them alive till they came over to Egypt : So the Lord Jefus Chrift,hath put his fpiritual treafures into a lack, and given them his Minifters to difpence them -to their bre- thren, to nourifh them, and prelerve them, untill they come home to him : he fils his Minifters tacks every week for us, the' come with fack -fuls of heavenly and divine truths eve- ry week to us, with lack-fills of food to feed our foules un- to
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