,.-J 3 2 HoilOur due to the Perfon of Chrift ; confolate will prize it, and be found in the prafrice of it. And all thofeholy fouls, who in mo{\:pges, on the Account of the Profellion oftl-e Gofpel, have been reduced UJ)to out– wardly Ui'~relieveaMe diflreffes, have, as was faid, left their – T eihmony unto this Duty, and the Benefits of ir. The Re– frefl1ment which they found therein, was a fu.fficient Bai– lance again11: the weight of all outward Calamities, enabling them to rejoyce under them with Joy unjpeakable andfull of Glory. This is the Churches Referve again!l: all the Trials it may be exerci!ed withal, and {lll the Dangers whereunto it is expofed.. \Vhil11: Believers have liberty of Accefs unto him in their fupplications:- who hath all Power in his hand, who is full of ineffable Love and Compaffion towards them, efpecially as fuffering for his fake, they are more than Con· 1_uerers in all theirTnbulations. 4· When we have a clue Apprehenjion of the eminent aclings of any Grace inChrift Jefus, andwithal a deep andabiding,fenfo of ourown want of the fa'!le Grace, it is a feafon of efpeeial Application unto him by Prayer for the encreafe of it. All Graces as unto their Habit were equal in Chrifr; they ·were all in him in the highefr Degree of Perfection. And every one of them did he exercife in its due manner and meafure on .all ju!l: occafions. But outward Caufes and Circumfiances, gave opportunity unto the exercife of fome of them, in a way more eminent ar..d confpicuous than others were exercifed in. For Infiance; fuch were his unfpeakable Condefcenfion, Self-denial, and Patience in Sufferings, which the Apoflle unto this purpofe infiil:s upon, Phi!. 2 5, 6, 7, 8. Now the great defign ofall Believers is to be like Jefus Chri!l:, in aU Gracr, and all the Exercife ofit. He is in all things their PA.ttern and Example. Wherefore when they have a view of the Glory of any Grace as it was exercifed in Chri!l:, and withala fcnfe oftheir own_defecrand want therein, (Contor- . · mity
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