Chrillspeoplea willingpeople. 337 V are like the {tonesand other materials of-Salomon! Tern- ERSE 3 . ple, but in the aeit of fitting and preparation no marvell if we be here crooked, knottie, uneven, and therefore fubje6 to the hammer, under blowes and buffets. But when we {ball be carried to theheavenly building which is above, and there laid in, there fhall benothing but fmoothneffe and glory uponus, no noife ofhammers, or axes, no clifpenfation of Word Sacraments, no appli- cationofcenfures and feyerity ; but every man (hall bee filled with the fulneffe of God, Faith turned into fight, ' Hope turned into fruition, and Love everlaflingly ra- vifhed vvith the pretence Of God, with the face of lefus Chriti, with the fulncffe oldie holy Spirit,and with the communion andfocietie of all the Saints. And fo much for the firfi obfervationoutof the third particular, con, cerning the willingneffeof Chrifis people. There was further therein obferVed the Principle of this Willingnefe, [ In the day of thy power, or, of thine armies] that is, when thou fink fend abroad Apofiles, andProphets, andEvangelifis, and Do&ours andTea- chers for evidencing the Word and Spirit unto the con- fciences ofmen. Whence wemay fecondlyobferve,that the [Heart of Chrifispeople is made willing to obey him by an at of Tower,] or by the flrengthof the Word and Spirit. It is not barelyenticed, but it isconquered by the Gofpell of Chrill, a Corao.4,5. And yet this is not a conopulfirycenqueil (which is utterly contrary to the na- ture of a reafonable will, which would ceafe to be it Celle, W it could be compell'd) but it is an effelltiall con- quep.The will (as all other faculties) is dead naturally in trefpaifes and fins : And a dead man is not railed to life again by any enticements, nor yet cornpell'd unto a conditionof fuch exait complacenck and futeableneffc to natureby any ati ofviolence. So then a man is made willingly fubjell unto Chriti, !richer by metre nova perfivafloss, nor by any znolear impulsions ; but by a power,
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