IP Chrispeopleavpillingpeople. with all joyfulneffe fulfill every jot of Gods Law if it were poflible ; This is the loveofGod, faith the Apofile, that we keepe his Commandments, and hisCommand,- "'lents are notgrievous. True love overcomes all diffictil- ties, is not apt topretend occarions for neglecting any service ofGod,nor to conceive any prejudices againft it, but puts anedge and alacritie upon the fpiritof a man, hecan no more be faid to love Chria,who dothnot wil- lingly undergoe his yoke, than that womanto love her husband who is ever griev'd at. his prefence, and deligh- tech more in the focietie offlrangers. Fifthly, this willingnefeofChrifis people arifeth from the beauty and pretioufnefe of thole ample Promi(es, which by the love of Chritiare madeunto us. It is faid of tAtofes that hedid chute (and that is the greaten a..41 of willingnefle) rather to fuffer affliaion with thepeo- ple ofGod than to enjoy the pleafures of finne for a feafon : and theground: ofthis willingnefre was,hebad4 repti unto the recompence ofthe reward,Heb.IT .25,z6. foChriti endured theCroffe,anddefpifed the fhame,that is,the fhame(which wouldmuch have flagger'd and dif- heartened an unrefolved man) was no prejudice or dif- couragement untohim, toabate any of his molt willing obedience, and the motive- was, for the joy that was jet before him, Neb.' 2.2. And Saint PahlFofefleth of himfelfe that he prefed forward, bee was not onely vvilling,but importunate and contentious to put forth all hisfpirits,and like riders ina raceto routeup himfelfe in a holy fervour and emulation, and all this was for the Price of the high calling of god in Chrill lefts, which was, as it were, before his face in thePromifes thereof. Phi/.3.14. fo the Apoffle affureth us, That a Chriflians Hope to be like unto Chria, hereafter, will caufe him to purifie hitnfelfe even as bee is pure, /oh. 3. 3, when a man (hall fit downe and recount with David, what God bathdone for him already. Y Z Who 3 /1 VERSE 3.
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