Thesoukserareallcalling to Clìrifi, 53 and youcannotcomeoffcleerly, Tooke up tohea- ven, exhort Father, teachFather : theMinifterhe fpeakes to thee, but Father informeus,but Father feale tous the affuranceofthy love in Chrift. All you that heare me thisday, and come, and bring- eft thine with thee,and commeft with thy family into the congregation, looke up to thyGod, and fay, Lord, here is a vaine rude fervant,a fillywife, anda weake foolifh childe, and I am as bale and blinde as any of them, and all the Minifters under heaven, and all the Angels in heaven, cannot teach and informeus, but doe thou teach us, and worke upon our mindes, and frame our hearts, that wee mayknow the things belonging toour peace. But thou wilt fay, Alas we havecome,and looked up toGod, butwe thrive and profper not for allthis, we receive not that helpe and inftru- ftion from him, whichhe firft promifed, and we Rand in need of. V. by, I fay, the fault is thine owne, the Lord is not wanting tohis owne word, but thouart wantingto thy owne comfort. But how then (hall wee focarry and order our felves, that we may fecke God fo, as we maypartake of thatgoodwe delire and ftand inneed of? I anfwcr, Thefe foure meanes are very ulefull for this purpole. Firft, labour to lay thy owne conceitedneffe and abilities downe, and all thy carnal! imaginations, that fhut out the truth of God,and are profcffedlyoppofed io theobedience ofChrift : ifthou leaneft on thyowne wifedome, andbeareft up thy felfeonthyowne abilities,tl:ou wilt never have dire&xon fromGod, and thou malt
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