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Dal.
ofPerfof
Sts
its
w(
efulnesto promote
Gofpell-
Obedience.
.C.X.4:so.
grant,
That
by
his death
he
made
f
atis
anion for
fnne,
but
only on
condition
241
that
men
believeon
him,
andtcontinue
f
o
doings
That
they
:hallfo
believe
,
andfo
continue
(though
he
is
faid
to be
the
Captaine
ofour
Salvatiou, and
the Author
and
finifher ofour
Faith,
though
it
be
given
unto
its
for
his
fake,to
believe on
him;
and
we
are
bleed
with all
fpirituall
bleffings
in
heavenly places
in
him,) that
he
takes
no care
about,
beyond
the generall adminiflration
of
outward
measles. He
nei4.
Cher
procured any
fuch thing
by
his
Oblation, nor
cloth
intercede
for it;
thefe
things
are
left
unto
men
to he
educed;
drawn
forth,
and
exercifed
by
virtue
of
fundrÿ
confiderations,
that
they may
take
upon
themfeives.
Never doubtleffe -did
men
take
more
paines,
to
ftaine
the beauty and
comelineffe
ofour
dying Savi-
our.
2.
For
his
Interceffon,
the Do
&rive
hitherto
infiífedoit', renders him
therein efceeding lovely and
defireable.
It
tells you
,
that
he
doth
pray
the
Father,.
and
thereuponJendi
no
the Comforter;
the
Holy Spirit,
for
all
the gra
-
tious
acts
and works, ends and
purpofes
before mentioned
,
with
innumera-
ble other priviledges
that the
Saints
by him are made partakers
of,
and
that
to
abide with
us
for
ever,
never
to
leave
us,
nor
forfake
us.
That
he
continu-
ally
appears
in theprefence
of
God
for
us,
interceding
that
our
Faith may
not
fail;
pleading for
us,
in, and under all our decayes, making
out
to
us futable
fupplies
in
all
our
Diftreffes,
Temptations , Tryalls, Troubles , taking care
that
no
Temptation
befall
us,
but
that
a
way
alto
of
of
ape be
given
to
us, together
with
it.
It
tells
us
his Eye, even now he
is in
glory,
is
(kill
upon
us, feeing
our
wants,
taking
notice
ofourweakneffe, and providing
for us,
as
his
only
concernment
in
the
World,
that
we be
not loft;
That
he
hath not left one
jot of
that kindneffe,
which he
bare
to
his
flock,
his
Lambs;
his
little
ones:
But purfues
with all
his
ftrength,
and
all
the
intereff he
hath
in
Heaven,
the
worke
of
their Salvation,
which he came from
his
Fathers bofome
to
enter
'on,
and returned to
him againe,
to
carry it
on
unto
perfe&ion;
That,
as
the
High Priefl
of
old, he beares our
names
in his
breaft
,
and
on
his
fhoulders
continually before
his
Father:
So
that
in all
our
falls
and
failings, when wee
are
in
our
(elves
helpelefíe and hopeleffe, when there
is
nothing
in us,
nor a-
bout
us,
that
can
doe
us any
good, or yeeld
us any help
or Confolation ,
yet
On
this account we
may fay, the Lord
is
our Shepheard,
we
'ball
lack
nothing:
He
bath
undertaken for
us,
and
will
beare
us
in
his
Armes,
untill he bring
us
to
the
bofome
of
his
Father. Now
whether
filch
confiderations
as
thefe,
of
the
Oblation
and
Interceifion
of
Chríft,
doe not
fill
his
Love
in
them
,
with a
more conítraining
efficacy,
and more draw
out the hearts
of
the
Saints
unto
Faith
and Love, then
any
innru
&ion can
doe, informing men
of
the
ufelef-
neffe
of
the
one
or
other
of
thefe eminent
A
&s
of
his
Mediation,
for any
of
the
ends
and
Purpofes
mentioned,
let
Believers
judge.
That
which men
re-
pole upon
in
their greaten
neceffities,
and for
the
things
of
the greateft
con=
cernement,
thereof
they have the greateft valuatión
,
and the thoughts
of
it
are
moft
fixed in
their
minds.
What
is
there
of
fo
great
concernement
in
this
World
unto
the
Saints,
as
their
abiding
with
God
unto the
end
?
Hòwmany,
how great,
urging, prefíìng,
are
the
difficulties,
dangers,
tröubles they meet
withal'
in their
fo
doing?
What
then they have moll frequent
recourfe
unto,
andwhat they
rei
moi
upon under their preffures,
in
the
things
of
that
con..
cernement before
mentioned,
that
will
deferve
the naine
of
their Treafure,
where their hearts
will
and
ought to
be.
Now
if
this
(
fetting
afide,
as
things
of
no Confìderation in fuck
a
cafe
, the
Purpofes
Covenant,
and
Promifes
o
f
God,
the
Oblation
and
Interceffaon
ofthe
Lord
Chrift)
be teens own
rational'
Abilities,
to
confider
what
is
for their good, and what will be
hurtful'
and
de=
firu
&ive
to then.; what can hinder
but that
men will,
(
yea
and
that
they
of-
I
i
tesi