-11111U11111111111111=6 Chrifis people. hold from thofe who walkeuprightly, our proprietie to Chrift givethus right unto all good things: Allisjossrs, andyor4 are Chrifts. Thirdly, ifwe are Chrifls, then he will/pareus. This was the argument which the Priefi was to ufebetween the Porch and the Altar, Spare thypeople, 0 Lord, and givenot thine heritageto reproch. Then will the Lord be jealous for his Land, and pit his people.TheyAgabe mine, faith the Lord, in the day that I make up my jewels; and I vying) are them, as a man fpareth his mom ronne that ferveth him. Of my fervant, towhom Igive wages for the merit of his worke, not out of love or grace, I expea afervice proportionable to the pay hee ' receives : But in my childe I reward not the dignity of the worke, but onely the willingneffe, the loving and obedient difpofirion of theheart; and therefore I paffe over thofe failings and weakneffes which difcover them- felves for want of skill or flrength, and not oflove,prai- ling the endevours,and pardoning the mifcarriages.Thus doth the Lord deale with his children. Fourthly, ifwe be Chrifis he will pray for s, I pray not for theworld,butfor themwhich thouhailgivenme, for they are thine; and a mine are thine, and thineare mine, &c. fo that wee {hall be lure to have helpe in all times ofnced, becaufe we know that the Father heareth his Sonne alwayes ; and thofe things which in much fare, weakneffe, and ignorance we aske for our felves,if it bee according to Gods will, andby the diokte and mouth of the Spirit in our heart, Chrifl himfelfe in his interceffiondemandeth for us thefame things. Andthe U thearoundofthatconfidence which wehave inhim,that ifweeaske any thing according to his will hee heareth us, andwe have thepetitions that we defire ofhim : For as the world hateth us, becaufe it hatethhim fitil ; fo the Fa- ther loveth andheareth us, becaufe he loveth and hea- rethhim firtl. X Fifthly, 07 VERSE 3. IOCI 2.170S. EXOC132.II. NUMINI4.13. Efay 64.9. Maiac.1.5 Iohn I L42, Iohn g.r4.
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