: ·t66 0 f feeking ~Gods (a-ce. flriveJ ·to pYtllfh the GofpeU, &c. the word in the o- . ·rig inall is 41M'11t-dvf-*Vo~,-I wasambiti0us to preach•th~ : Gofpell : Loo~e what ~ddires -an arr1bit1uus riun 1 bath (and 'there :a:re <tto · d~fires f0 (qu!cka~ ·thofe of I ~a_mbition, fuch a man,0ver- 1 lookes all for·~is preferI ment) fuch tlefires had .1 to the :preachtng'ofthe 'Gofpell : Th'e like a·tf~dl:ion hee expreffeth in him-: felfc, 2 Cor. II, 28. Befirles the things without, -tbat whic~ commeth onmte dail1,~•be cArt of'allthe•Ohurohes; I ·who tJ'offinded,,,.mJz hurn~t'Jit ? . ' · There are t'hree expreffions fl1ew his 1 witlingndfe and n lturallaffed:ing of·rhe ·Lordshufrneffe: :Fittfl: ' fematfStt07> 1 t'he'Cumber]rhatis, hee had ·(as it were) all . I l ·c~ue nurribred and muftered together, and that Se- -condly with anxietiefUffw~,w·ith the ·fnme foHcitucle I that ama:nhath abontbufrnes dfhis owne. l"hird. ly [aifes he,·who /J bf/ended, 'And I hlir~e not '? his ·affea:ions were fo hoc ·an<d qoiGk, -as-prefenfly if any ! foule were .difadvant~ged, if C a ·R 1 I s l' loft any thing, ·hee ·was prefendy £\irred ·and ~ffetl:ed with . I gdek. · I z Do~lHhoudoeitt.Hligenrly! -when-anything is · to bee done for 'the lLord-lefus, deeft thouaoe it . with 'all thymigHt~ if remHIy, 1 thot:fart f.1rre from feeking the Lord :· Whac ·ever a mandothforhim- . 1 . felfe, fo farre as hee conceives it to bee for himfelfe, , he will doei.t diligently andwith all ~is~ight, ·and wee are commanded tolove the Lora.wtth all our might, andth~re iS-a curfeupon the contrary, Cur;. (Cd is hee that Joth ·t·be worke D(theDordnegligtntly .· ' che 1neaning is nor; curfed is he that do~h theworke . - of-the Lord weakly~ a·nd with infirmiries; fodhen . . ' 311 ... ','
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