Pleciouo ,Taíti. in doing his own Will, and how help and ílrength came upon him in doing Gods; he comes; experimentally to know the Com- . mand to be of God whofe Prefence gave him fuch comforts and afíìftances therein:The good hand of God Upon him is a proof that the way is right ; the Peace growing on his work (hews the righteoufnefs of it. When in Elijah: time the queftion was, Whether God or Baal íhould be God, the fire coming down from Heaven on the Sacrifice made the People fall down and confefs, The Lord he it the God, the Lord he is the God, 1 King. 18.39. anfwer- ably when the Believer in the doing of Gods Commands,feels the illapfes of the holy Spirit inflaming and comforting his Heart, he fweet- ly experiences that God is in the Command of a truth. Thirdly', Faith experiments it in that the hope of Heaven is enlarged and heightned in the doing of Gods will. The more a Believer doth it, the livelier is his Faith ; the warmer his love, the ftronger his other Graces ; the meeter his Soul for Heaven, and the richer his entrance thereunto, 2 Pet. r. 1 i. He (hall not go to Heaven poorly or with a (cant wind, but with full gales and rich Plerophories ; by fucccftìve as of Obedience his Hope rifes higher and higher, and fo gives an experimental proof, That the Command is the very Will of God, and way to Glory; otherwife Hope would not grow and flouri(h in it, but flag and wither ; as it nfes to do in us, when we purfue our 3 awe 341
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