Simile. as fhe had money in her purfe,or that therew~re · Phyficians to . go to, that fhe had ab-ility to ~ None come 'I havethem, fhe would'not come toChri(f; but ' toChriJl, till , I fhQ h d r. 11 h f.l... r. h allotber w1en "' a .1penta ,wen me1awt ere was . meanesfa~. nomore hope, then fl1~ comes to qhrijf, and · I , was healed of her blo.udy i!fue: fo do we, fo longas we canlivein finne, . we c0nfider not the greatne!fe nor the darkeneffe ofrhe difeafe, but if we can but fubfifl: with· it, w-e go on we come not to · Chirft·; but when· we are fpoyled of all ·by the fpirir of bondage, when we are put into feare of death, that is it tha~1 hrings·us home to Iefm chrift~ and therefore we mull make accoHnt ofit as a gene.rall JnJ:Ie, there mull: b~fuch a fpirit ·of·bomdage·to bring us home : ·we do~ irt·this !fafe asJoab did with S~m'zle'e , Abfdon, . wh~n- he lived· ih the Court in· I eafe and pleafure, he would not come at Ab· f(llBm, he might fend againe and againe, but he would not come at him, till his Corne was fet on .fire, and that brought him: So, unlelfe there be fome fuch . croffe as may make an impreffion upon us,.-fuch ·.a crolfe· ~s h-ath the fpirit of bondage joyned', wfth it', , to caufe it to wound our fpirits, (as it isfayd~ ' they were prickedilfJ their hearts when they heard P£ter) I fay, we ~ould not come home unto the LorJ, we mufi have fuch an avtn– g~r of6/oud, to pm-fue ·us, before we feeke . to the Citie·:ofrefuge. · Aqd therefore confi– der, wheth~r th9u haft tafied ·of this fpirit; and withall, you may obferve this: by the · • way, 1
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