Thegooell uChnifis omne Tover. n 2+9 /M101111..411110111 41. turtle, God is willing to Pave, as foone as he hath an heart to attend, God bath a tongue to fpeake falvation unto him. Wee fee then the way to miff in Chria is to looke upon himas the Bialopofour foulest as the Offi- cer of our peace, as one that careth and provideth for us, asone that hath promifed to Pave to theuttermoa, to give fupplies ofhis Spirit, and Grace in timeof need, to give us daily bread, and life inabundance, to bee with us alwayes to the endof theworld, never to faile us nor forfake us. And we may hereby learne our dutie one toanother, toput on the affealons ofmembers, and the rninde of Chilli, in compaffionating, confidering, and licking the good of one another,in bearingone anothers burthens, in pleating not our felves but our neighbour for his edi- fication, for evenChrifi pleated not himfelfe ; that man cannot live inhonour,nor dye in comforr,who livethon- ly tohimfelfe, and dothnot byhis praiers,compaffions, and fupplies imitate Chria, and intereft hirnfelfe in the goodof his brethren. Now the groundof all this power,majeaie, and met- cie of the Golpell is herePet forth unto us in twowords.. Fira,it is the flrength ofChM ; Secondly, it is fent by. God himfelfe. The. Lord fhall fend the Rod of Thy firetegth out of Sion. Here :hen we may firft note,That the golpelis Chrifis owne Power 4nd firength, and the Power of God his Father,by whom it is fent abroad; So the Apatite cals it,The a Power of God unto Salvation,and the demon- tiration of the Spirit, and of Power; that our faith fbould not Eland in the wifedome of men but in the Power of God. Thetefore in one place wealelaid tobe b taitgbt of God, and in another tobe tOright of Chrig ; in one placeit is called the dGoffeZJ of the 64,4 God, and inanother the e GoldofChrtitito note th fWhat- copver things the Father doth in his Church, the fame the VERSE 2. Heb,7.tg. neb.4.16. Ioh.r 0.1 0. Heba3.9. Co1.3.11,i3. Eph. -5..2.. Phil. 2.43C. Roma4.7. a f. 554,3, aRomq 6. Cor.z.4,5. 61011.6%.q. C 6.1.41.4,10,24. 4 e Rom 15,;9, floh.5.i9.
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