\ The qlorieof the qoffiell. 2,17 ........_ to.sosavapormealat VIN=NomMainsmsoa we fce what !liftsmen will ufe, to make the way of life VE R S E 2 . ..... broader than it is,by looking upon it thorovv their owne multiplyingglaffes, what evafions and fubterfilges finne will findeout toefcape by,-when the letter of the Word preffeth fore upon them.° howmany filmes might men cfcape,how wonderfully might they improve the image of Chrifi in their hearts; ifthey did with David make pral.119.24. the Law their, counfellor, and weigh every aetion which they goe about, thofe efpecially which they have any motions of reluaancie in the fpirit oftheir minde :lla, No inflatera delofit confiletudimtem, fed in rea Ihtera ditsg,contr. epifi. fcripturarum, not in the deceitfUll balance of humane Pannell. lib.3. cullome, but in the balanceof the SanStuary, the holy "P.z. Scriptures : if they would ferioufly remember that they mutt alwayes wdke ix Ch,ill, Celofir.2.6. make him the rule, the way, the end, the Judge, the companion, the aflifiant in all their workes, that as the mt mbers of the body doe nothingat all but in the rellovvfhip of the bo- dy, andas they are thereunto applied by the fame COM- monfoule which animates them all : fo Chrifiian men fhould doe nothingbut as parts ofChria, and as a6ua- tedby theTame gracious Spirit which is in him. This is themeaningof our being Chriflians, and of that con- tent which inour Baptifme we yeeld-unto the Covenant of Chat, that we will not follow norbe led by Satan, the world, or the flefh, that is, by that wifdome which isearthly, fenfuall, or devillifh, but that we will beor- deredby that Spirit of regeneration, the fealeof whole Baptifme wee receive in our facramentall wathios. 0 then what is become of the Chriffianityof many men, who forgetthat they have beene purged ? whalve asif they had never beene baptized into Chrift,whobyeas if they had never learned Chaff ? What a prodigie and contradiotion is it, that that tongue, which even now proteffed it far to be Chilaian, and Paid A,Then to a moilcleane and holy prayer, fhould, like thole beafis which r......*..
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