Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

• • • ---·--------------------------------------~ All ,nen di"Pided into t"tPo 'J?..~n~r. 11J • theloveofGod and man : whereas before there : Lovemakcs was nothing bat felfe-love inhim: which plant · usfeniceable ; growes n,atur~lly~nthegaden. o~naturc, when :;;;_odan<t grace comes,tt btmgs love withIt, and thatlove makes usufefi1ll and fcrviceable both to God and • man: Sothatwhatfoev~raman hath,what gifts,. what knowledge, what authoritie he bath, _ne is readytoufe itforthegoodofothers. As the A- · pofilefaithof onejimm in the Epifileto Phi!e~ l . mo.n : Now is heprojit~tble to thu and met, PJhereas 1 1 before hew~unprojtttble.· So it maybe faid ofall , Saints,when once this goodnes is put intothem, ' now theyare profitable-toGodand man,they do ; ferve Godand manwith their fatndfe, and with . -– their fweetndfe ; before they were uAprofitab1e · to orhers,but now they are profitable both to themfdvesand others. , This is the ftrft note, bywhichyqumaykn()w your felves: Art thouagood and ufcfull man~ doefithougoeaboutdoinggood,docthofefare the better forthee, with whom thou haft to doe, , dofi thoufpend the fatneffe, and the .fweetnetfe· that Godharh given thee, to ferue G1t{and man. with it?thenconclude, thonan in the.ranke ofthofethat are theLordsportion,other– wife thou art yet without the Covt~ nant,thou art yet i11thegaUif hitterneqe•. Theother three · I mull:deferretillthe . afi:ernoone. THE

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