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2 24 Meditation! c111d DifcourfeJ ' . . . ' Glory of his Perfon, Office and- Grace, with a due conviction of our concernment and intereft ~her~in, but that otir minds will be greatly affeCt~ ed _with it, and be filled with contemplations about it. Where it is not fo with any, it is to be feared that they have not heard his voice at anj time, nor feen his fhape, whatever they profefS. , Afpiritual fight of Chriit will affuredly produce; love unto him , and if any man love him not, he never faw him, be knows him not at all. And t~at is no love, wh ich dot h not beget in us many thoughts of the object beloved . He therefore - who is partaker of \his grace, will think much of what Chrift is in himfelf, of wh .. he hath done for u's, of his love, and condefcention, of the manif~ftation of an the glodous excellencies of the divine nature in him, e_xerred in a way of infi- · r1ite \Vifdom and Goodnefs for the falvation of the Church. Thoughts and Meditations of thefe things will abound in us, if we are not wanting unto the due exercife of Fa1th :and inrenfe infla. med Affections tinto him, wiil enfi1e thereon, at h~aft they will be atlive unto our own refrefhing · experience. And where thefe things are not in reality (though in fome they may be only in a· mean and lowdegree ) men do but deceive their ' own fouls in hopes of any benefit by Chrift or the Gofpel. ,THIS th~refore is the prefen_t cafe. VVhere there are prevailing finful diftempers or inordinate affections in the mind, fuch,as thofe before ment~-· oned, as felf-love, love of the world, cares and fears about it, with an exceffive valuation of rela· tions and enjoyments ;. they ~vill fo far cum:b~r .. ..,._ ;and

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