netiouo lady. notion in them, but Examples have more or vivacity tò attraä the heart to imitation:above all the Example of Chrift muff be cogent to Believers, be went up and down doing of good every ffep one odour of Grace or other brake from him ; Subjetion to Parents or Magi - ffrates, or Zeal towards God in purging the Temple, or Humility in wafhing his Difciples feet, or 1vlceknefs under malicious accufationS and blafphemies; or melting bowels, upon all occafions dropping Cures on the bodies, and Heavenly Truths on the Souls of Men ; or admirable patience under great forrows; and at laft upon - a tormenting Crofs, where he drunk the bitter cup of wrath up to the bot- tom ; and over and above all the réff, Tweet Love and Obedience run through them all, with a pure intention to his Fathers Will and Glory. And Oh ! what a Samplar of Grace is here ? and how ftrongly can Faith preis for "an imitation ! what ? (hall I not tread in fuch "pure ffeps, my Saviour being before ? Of whom (hall I learn if not of my Redeemer ? " Did he fweat and bleed, and die on a Crois "for me; and (hall I not follow him ? Can I cc reft on his Merits and precious Obedience, and wave his holy Pattern ? Was he to fill- " fill all Righteoufnefs,and I none at all ? If I " abide in him, muff I not walk as he walked? " If I know the truth as it is in Jefus, muff not "thofe very Graces, which were true in him, " be true in me alto ? Why doch the Spirit "come and work thofe Graces in my Heart, U 2 "but
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