2.88 Every natural man feekes h.imleife. (. - . OF MAN-S tome fuc.bmotive,he ll:ands am:and il:irresnot. , thegroundofthis is, .becaufe_wnile a man . f~e.k.es bimfelfe, while aman is unfound-hear- , tcd, while-he is'full ofhimfelfe, (;as every man is till he be regenerated, .till h~s heart be ehan- . . ged) come and tell fuch a man, informe him, . ' and fay to hi:m,_Sir, this will make for your profit, or this is for your credit~ this wiU be · for your advantage; it prefendymooves .him, .and fets him aworke: for his end is to feeke . himfelfe, but let his heart be chl't1ged,·and I -be perfect W~th; God, to feeke._ him, ' now rrio– dve~ . deawn'C from thefe refpecrs, ·dE? not fo ' ' 'fcoL4·"· If • much wotke upon him , but let a Commande– ment·com~ from .God, let it he ihp.s- prefented to him, "fhis is the wiHof God,thir;is ·for Gods glory, this he will haue performed by th: e; thefeare ~he motiues that worke upon him in the generall · fafliion and courfe of his life; ,: orher refpects, ' that are more prevalent with him before, they moove him nor now; but wh~nthey are fi1ggefi:ed~as i1.1 former time, he fiands fiiii, as it were, as a Ship that is becal– med, that hatb no wind to move it: but when a Cornmandemenrcomes fromGod, thatcom– mand filles the Sailes,it filles the fKulries of the fonle,that moves it to and fro, thar indeede. is the -ground that fets this mana-worke ; in aH the a6tions, and in all the courfes of his life, · you lhallfee that metaphor ufcd, Col.4. I", (iris Epapbr~t~ prayer for the people; that Paul here expreffeth) EpAphr.as a ftrvant of Ch~ift,one of - - I J~ f
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