AnElegant and lively 1D, efcriptiou, Thefecund food ofthis life is goodworks,iob, 4.32,33.34, is theplace out of which I colleá this,where Chrifi beingaskedofhis Difciplcs to gate : (aid, that hehadother meate that they knew not of; thenfail they bath anp manbrought hireought toeatet Fleefaith unto thevn,My meaté is to doe the willofhim thatfe t me, and tofind?) hid worke. Doe you goodworkes withfuck a defire as menciteand drinke?doe youhunger and thirft after them,defiring for todoe them? Then ye arealive. Hypocrites may doe much, but it is not their meate anddrinke to dock; examine therefore your [elves by thefe fignes, whether youarealive ordead.This is theprea- ching ofthe law, to (hewyou the narrow dif- ferences otlife and death. The firíl flep to life istoknow, that ye are ina flate ofdeath : the Lawmuff goe before the 6obel, toprepare its way,,rs !ohmBaldly' wns beforechri.9: ye muabe brought to their cafe in the z Ail. 37. Who were prickedat theheart;ye muft bebrought unto the cap o f the Taylor,end ofPar& : to the cafe ofthe Prodigall,that you may know your elate: then yee will come home and not before. Ourend iís to preach lifeand comfort to you, not dam- nation. Rom, 15.4. 411Scriptureis writtenfor our comfort : now there aremany things In the Scripture that tend to difcoaifort and terror, yet theirend is comfort; asPhyhcke is (harpe for the rime, yet the end is health. Wee de. fire not to exclude any, but to bring you in whi ft
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