to the E PH E S I AN S. 1 75 thoufand years to have Cluifl come into it. It is the gr·c;t~llMe;cy th;;;;- art ,..__:;:.;::_ capable of to have Chrift come into thy heart; he IS well worthy thy waiting J'am.XIl. fnrrhen. It is no argument that he w11l not come, becaufe he ftays long; for V'""v"""' lhould the World have argued, that becaufe he !laid. two inrts of the rhree, therefore he would not come at all! No; Great Merc1es, they are long a coming, for the Mejfim was fo. The breakmg up ofG~d's he~rt, of the great delign, of all the Treafures there, you fee it was h1d 10 hlmlelt from the beginning of the World for fo many thoufand years. That's the firil Obfervation. The Second is this, That God may let me11 go oil i11 fot lo11g, a11dgive them Chrtj/too for all that. You fee, God let the world go on in fin, try all WaJ s to help themfelves; let all the world corrupt their own ways; he did it for a long time, and at la!! in thejit!11e{s of ttme fent his Son. Thou mai!l try all ways; try Duties, try what thou canfl, how far corrupt Nature may go, and God may give thee Chriil at la!l. He did fo by the world; alter that by their wifdom thtyl:11tW1/otGod, heJe~tthuJ'ot~m.1a"eof a T¥om,m. When God hath given thee light, and thou hail tried a thoufand ways, thy Duties, and this and tbat to get Chrifl, and thou hail fet up a Ladder to Heaven, to get Chriil this way and that way. After tholl hail tried all things, he fends Chrifl into thy heart, when thy c1fe is defperate, when thy heart is forlorn, then Chrifl cometh. There is a Third Obfervation, that I will lillt mention; it is this, That God i; the Lord of oll time. He appointet!! the flllnefs of Times. SER.
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