CHAP . I. uptm the Epiflle of JAM ! s. VE R So2Io 17) not to be rllfo and incunfidtrate :-Do not make fuch haite as to forget to take (;od along with you. *You muft kegirs Duties"' Iter ad pi– with Duties : Special Duties requtre ajpecial{etting apart of the etatem eft heart for God, but all require fometbmg: Jnconfiderare ad- intra pieta~ dreffes are always fruitlefs: We come on, andgo off, and there's tem. aft: We do not come 'With expeClation, and go wid10uc fatiffatlion. V\tell then, Come with more advifed care, when you come to wait upon God; look to yoer feet,at1d come prepared. Lee me fpeak one word by wayof Caution, and another by way of Direflirm. , 1. By 'Way of Caution. x. Do not exclude <Sod out of your preparations: Ufually men minake in this matter, and hope by r:heir own care to work themfdves into a fime(s of fpirir. Pre.. paration confifieth much in lay_ing ajide evil fiimes; . and be– fore you lay afide other evil frames, lay afide ftlf·confidence: PrtiV. J 6. ·I. The prepa-r,atcions of the heart in man, and the an– fwer of the tongue, i4 from the Lord; The very difpofitions and motions of the fpiri t are from him ; •fis a wrong eo chat T~xt to exoound it fo, as if rhepreparation were from man, and the fuccefs from God; both are from the Lord: Gods Children have enrred comfortably upon Ducies, when they have feen God in their preparations; P(a. 7 I .16. I 'Wilt go forth in the ftrength of God i that is, to the Duty of Praifes~ as is clear in the Con– text. :z. • • Th8ugh-yoq can.not get your Jleartsjmo fuch .a frame as you do ddire, tru(l: God; Faitb u the evidence of thints not (een, He6r. Chap. u. Verf. 1.- and that help which is abfont to fenft and feeling, may be prefent to Faith. A Bell may be hmg in rifing, but it ri[}gech loud when ~cis once up. You do not know how God may come in. The Eunuch read, and under– Hood nor, and Go~ feor him an Interpreter, A[/, 8, When yen be5in Duty, you are dead and it:Jdifpofed, but you do not know W1th what fenGble approachts of his Grace and Power he may vifit you, ere it-be over: 'fis not good to neglect Dncy out of difcouragements ; this wer~ to commit one fin to txcufe ano– ther : Say npt, I ama Childe, [~r. 1, 6. ltzm flow of ft.ps: Wh() .made the momh? Exod. 4• 10. 2. Bf- wayofDireEtion: 1cannot go our in~o all the feverals of p.repa~ation, how &he heart mu{t be purged, faith exercifed, repent"nce renn11ed) wantJ and weak..ne.l[t~ . reviewed~ Gads glo~1 CQU•
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