Dal.ofPerfof Sts its w(efulnesto promoteGofpell- Obedience. .C.X.4:so. grant, That by his death he made fatis anion forfnne, but only on condition 241 that men believeon him, andtcontinue fo doings That they :hallfobelieve , andfo continue (thoughhe isfaid to be the Captaine ofour Salvatiou, and the Author andfinifher ofour Faith, though it begivenunto itsforhisfake,to believe onhim; andwe are bleedwith allfpirituallbleffings in heavenly places inhim,) that he takes no care about, beyond the generall adminiflration ofoutwardmeasles. He nei4. Cher procured anyfuch thing byhis Oblation, nor cloth intercedefor it; thefe things are left untomen to heeduced; drawnforth, and exercifed by virtue offundrÿ confiderations, that they may take upon themfeives. Never doubtleffe -didmen take morepaines, 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 purpofesbefore mentioned , with innumera- ble other priviledges that the Saints by him are made partakers of, and that toabide with us for ever, never to leaveus, norforfakeus. That hecontinu- ally appears in theprefenceofGod forus, interceding that our Faith may not fail; pleading for us, in, and under all our decayes, makingout tous futable fupplies in all our Diftreffes, Temptations , Tryalls, Troubles , taking care that noTemptationbefall us, but that a way alto ofofape 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 noticeofourweakneffe, and providing for us, as his only concernment in the World, that we be not loft; That he hath not left one jot ofthat kindneffe, which hebare to his flock, his Lambs; his little ones: But purfueswith all his ftrength, and all the intereff he hathin Heaven, the workeoftheir Salvation, which he came from his Fathers bofome toenter 'on, and returned to him againe, tocarry it on unto perfe&ion; That, as the High Priefl of old, he beares our names in his breaft , and onhis fhoulders continually beforehis 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 doeus any good, or yeeld us any help or Confolation , yet On this account we may fay, the Lord is our Shepheard, we 'balllack nothing: Hebath undertaken for us,and will beareus in his Armes, untill he bring us to the bofome ofhis Father. Nowwhether filch confiderations as thefe, of theOblation and Interceifionof Chríft, doe not fill his Love in them , with a more conítraining efficacy, and more draw out the heartsof the Saints unto Faithand Love, then any innru&ion can doe, informing men ofthe ufelef- neffeoftheone or other of thefe eminent A&s ofhis Mediation, for anyof the ends andPurpofes mentioned, let Believers judge. That which men re- pole upon in their greaten neceffities, and for the things of the greateftcon= 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, astheir abiding with God unto theend ? Hòwmany, how great, urging, prefíìng, are thedifficulties, dangers, tröubles they meet withal' in their fodoing? What then they have moll frequent recourfeunto, andwhat they reimoi upon under their preffures, in the things ofthat con.. cernement before mentioned, that will deferve the naineof their Treafure, where their heartswill andought tobe. Now if this( fetting afide, as things ofno Confìderation in fuck a cafe , the Purpofes Covenant, and Promifes of God, the Oblation and Interceffaonofthe Lord Chrift) be teens own rational' Abilities, toconfider what is for their good, and what will be hurtful' andde= firu&ive to then.; what can hinder but that men will, (yea and that they of- I i tesi
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