1 z2. ~T'he Churches Carriage. full .th ings among you, for his name is wonderful/, Secondly, bee undou~tsdly fhall bee your Coun– fei!Dur, that is, I have giVen hi m to you, that when you want counfell and direCtion, you may goe to him, For I have given him to you, fur that end, J This we may as trulyexpect ofhim, as the Iewes did it of the· Mej]iah, as appearsby that fpeech, .!oh. 4·25.1 kr.OJrJwellthat rrhen the Mtffiah is.come,he rt?i!l tell us alLthings. This was the common opini– Oft of the people~ the Iewes did expeel: this from him,fo may wee : and therefore upon any exigent goe thou and fay, Lard, thou haft gi~n me thy Sonne, and him to be wiffdome to mee, and ap– pointed him to be my counfellor, and I have need of counfell and direCtion, and therefore Lord give me an anfwer, and direction. If wee would prelfe~im thus, .he could not deny us. Beftdes, ·fn that Chrifi: bath made himfelfe our head, it is· his office, bee bath undertaken it,it belongeth .to him, to guide his .Church and every m_ember of it, and can hee faile in that belongeth to him? · , · · . That which fets the price on this privilege; is the need which we have of ir, none being able to guidebimfelfe. The principle of guidanceis rcfident in the head, and is communicated to the members but upon occafion. As it is thus in the naturall body, fothat faculty of direCl:ing us is .in Chrift, and 'is communicated to us but upon .occafion, as wee~eed it: hence every man wa]– keth fo wifely upo~~cry occafion as God will _guide and dired him to-dpe, in fuch a time>and . ·, in , '-,,
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