' ' Put on the whole Armour ofCool. phets areoffthe flage, and(kilt on. Nfcitor iH vivie Itvor,poft fata quielcit. Try by this whether you have graceor no, dolt thou walk in V the exercife of thy grace? He that path clothes,furely will wear them, and not be feen naked ; men talk of their faith, repent, ante, love to God ; thefe are precious graces, but why do they not let us fee thefe walking abroad in their daily converfation ? Purely if fuch peas were in thy foule, they would look out fome- times at the window, and be feen abroad in this duty, and that holy action ; grace is of a aiming nature, and not fuch a dead. thing, (like an image) which you may lock up in a theft, and none (hall know what God youworfhip ; no, grace will fhew it fell, it will walk with you into all places and companies, it will buy with you, and fell for you, it will have a hand in all your enterprizes, it will comfort you when you are fincere and faith- ful for God, and it will complain and chide you when you area- therwife; go to, flop its mouth, and heaven shall hear its voice, it will groan, mourne and ftrive, even as a living man when you would fmOther him. Me as loonbelieve the man to be alive, that lies peaceably as he is nail'd up in his Coffin, without ftrife or bulk, as that thou haft grace, and never exercife it in any a& of fpiritual life. What man l haft thou grace, and carried fo peaceably, as a fool to the flocks, by thy lull ? Why hang'ft thou there nail'd to thy luft ? if thou haft grace, come down and we will believe it, but if thou beeft filch a tame flave, as to fit fiill under thecommand of luft, thou deceiveft thy fell: Haft thou grace, and Phew none of it in the condition thou art plac't in ? May be thou art rich ; doeft thou Phew thy humility towards thole that are beneath thee ? doeft thou thew a heavenly minde breathing ,after heaven more then earth ? It may be thy heart is puff't with thy eftate, that thou lookeft on the poor as creatures of force lowerlecies then thy fell, and difdaineft them, and as for heaven thou thinkeft not of it. Like that wicked Prince, that faid, He mad lofe his part in Paradife rather then in Palls. Art thou poor , why doeft not exercii a grace in that condition? Art thou contented, diligent ? may be in (lead of contenration thou repineft, canft not fee a faire lace on thy lich brothers cloth, but grudgeft it in Read of concurring with Providence b), ,genre to fupply thy wants, thou art ready to break through the N hedge 3
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