CHI.tt~-}.) - upon·the Epiflte ·of' J'A:M ii, s. Vi'R's:;zt~-· J2T ~- ~ _... ~-·- ----.... ,_.... - ...... -- ·-· .,_. ~ __...__,... __ ... ""' own hand he was at one (troke to<:ut off all h!s cqmfc;>rts; rhe ~x:- 1 ecution of;fuch a ·fentence was 'as hiu'trrdnd ' blc'Cer 'to 'fltfil arid blood,as to be his ow<nE~ecutio'ner. · Oh,go and iliame your felvcs without, you that can fo linle deny your ft!ves f9r (Jod, t~at at– tempt quties only when:th,ey :re t:afie arid obvious;·never ~ate fb re– cover them our ofch<t-qantkof difficulrfaB'd ;ioc6ilverlien~e ':'~Pub- · ·1 /ik._e dutia if well done,are ufually againfi carnul it1terejh, privitte dutie.s agai~fi carn~Zl!ajfeClions. · Cati you-give up all -that is near and . dear to you? Can you ·offer up your Ifaac .? your eafe and pleafure / for private duties? your interefh for publike ( Every action is not a tryal of faith, but fuch as engageth w felf-deoy~lo · 2. Confider the readinefs of his ohcdiente ;.· ''AS<~Abrdham, is che pattern of be-·; lievi~:g,{oofobeying ; he rtt'lived the promifes', as afigu're of our . faith; he offered ~~'P Eisfon;as a figure. of o'w;. obediencet HelM 1:-'.I]• . J·A · He obeyed readily and willingly, Gen.22. 3• -Abr.th;~.m rofe eirf] .in th~ morning : In .fuch·a fer vice fame would _have d_elayed all the time ·they could, but he is up'e11rf]_; ufmilly we firaitei;J ·duty, rather then firaiten 'our felves, weateoa-r abml;t:thac.-work e~Lrly.· 2; Refolutely; he concealeth it from his wife, fetvams-, from l[aotc - himfelf, th:u fo he might not be diverted from.his pious purp6fe: 0 who is now fo wife eo order the circurnG:ances of a duty, that he-may not be hindered in it? 3• He·denyed carnal reafon -; in'diffiI cult cafes we fee.k ~to illude the Command{ difpute hbw we thall tbift.i~ off, not how we !hall tibey it; ifwe had been put upon · fuch a tryal, we would queilion the Vifion, .or feek fome other meaning ; perhaps·offer the image of lfaac, or fome youngling 'of · the flock, aQd call it Jfa"c; as now we often pervert a Command j by difiintlions, and invent thifts to cheat our Souls into a neglect of.duty; as tbe Heathens, when their gotts'called for l{lca1r1, ·a nMn, , . they offered l(lcd'7d,, a candle; ot as Hercu!es, offered up a painted· man in fiead of aliving : ·But ~brah~m dorh nor: {o, though he ha~ a fair occafion, for he was divided between b'elieying the Pro– m~fe, and obeying the ~om.mand; God tryed 'him in his.f~ t th, h~s f~ezth was to conflu.'l Wtth hts natural reafon, as well as hts obedience with his n~ttHri!tl affection : But he accounted, that qod "'J!Nll – Able to r~ti/e himfrom the de~td, Heb.x I.19. and he reconcileth the C:ommandme!lt witht~e Promife: How eafily could we havefliP" ped. ~ut at thts door, and difobey, out of pretences and reafons of Reltgton? But Ahr~th~tm offered I[~tfiC. r· Tt Verfe
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