548 Theseule: effeRoallcalliasg toChrift . ieltc, then I fay, I have a power within me todoe tonicthing pleating toGod, namely, I candenle my fi lfe,which is contrarie ; for to denseamans felfe, is to looke for no power., or Expel any powér or Iufficiencie fromhimfelfe, or from the creature toperforme that God requires : there- fore wee mutt liften and lookeonely to thevoice ofChrift,he that cals us from darknetfe, mutt call us to the glorious light of himfelfe : we mutt as well liften to thevoice that muff pluckus out of our felves,andt xpe¿ power fromChris topluck usout of our felves, as wee mutt expe& power from Chrift to goe unto him : the conclufion therefore is this ; I would have a linnet fay, and thinke with himfelfe , I expeEt no. pow- er, Lord, from my felfe, I intend to wait upon the Lord, that hides himfelfe from the houle of Iftael , andI will lookeup, I will ufe all meanes, and improve all helpes I can, but I will not looke tohearing, from that to receiveany thing; I will not looke to the Minitler, from him to receive any thing but in thefei es ofhearing, and prayer, and in the ufe of all ordinances, I will looke up unto God that hides his face from his fervant for the while, andwill looke up to that wifdome to be informed, that is wifer than the wifdorre of the meanes, and I will looke up to that power to be ftrengthened, that is ftronger than thepower of themeanes : Habak.3,t7. when he tawall began tofaile, though the figtree bloffäme not,and thevine,flourijh not, yet willsrice in the Lord,andftaymy felfeupon theGod of my falvation; marke
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