414 VERSE4. The PrieflhoodofChrift. = wIII.aa.r...+aawew/.........g me,how greatreafon is there that I fhould (ludic toferve him ? How ought all my wifdome, and counfell, and thoughts, and defires be direcfied to this one refolution, to live acceptably and thankfully unto him, who when hee might have produced glory to himfelfe out of my confufion, chofe rather to humble, and as it were for a while to unglorifie himfelfe for my falvation ? Certain- ly that mandid never rightly underfiand the horrour of finne, the infinite hatred ofGod againa it,the heavineffe ofhis wrath, the malediaion ofthe Law, the myfiery and vat+ dimenfionsof Gods love in Chrifi, the preci- oufneffe ofhis facrifice, the end, purpofe, or merit ofhis death, any ofthole unfearchable riches of God mani- felled in the flefh, who will not crucifie a vanitie, a lull, a pleafure, an earthly member unto him againc ; who findes more content and fans!a6tion in his owne wayes offinne and death, more wifdome in the temptations and deceitsofSatanand his owne flefblyminde, than in thole deepe myaeries ofgrace, and contrivances ofmer- cie, which the Angels defire to prie into. Therefore in the !aft place wee fbould labour to feele thisneceffitie we haveof fuch a Priefi. This is theonly reafon why fo few make ufe of fo precious a fountaine, bccaufe they mull in their owne muddle and broken cifternes at home, and are never fenfibly and throughly touched with the fence oftheir owne wants; for it is not the flyingandconfeffing,ore ten*, that I have nothing, nor the knowing in fpeculation only that I have nothing, but the feeling and finarting by teafon of my want, which will drive me to feeke for reliei abroad. Ifa man did ferioufly confider and lay together fuch thoughts as thefe ; I amvery bulk for theoffaires and paffagesofthis prelim life, which will quckely vanifh and paffe away like a Weavers fhuttle, or a talc that is rold.I have ano- ther and anabiding life to live after this is over. All that 1 toile for here is but for the Backe, the belly, the bagge, and LIII.Naag
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