. SEJt~ 2o . TriumpFrof Faith~ 2 ~ s· .Sabbaton] is to confound God's Sabbath with anotner Day: A ,profane wicked Man bath notWifdom to efteemGod and Chrift above the Creature, but confoundeth the one with the other. z. Our Efteem of Chrift is to be pure, chafte, fpirit~al, and ,fo to work purel~ ;· that is the for~ mal Reafon why we efteem ofChrift, muft be becaufe he is Chrift, and not becal!lfe Summer goeth with Chrift; n<~y, not becaufe he comforteth, ' · but becauie he is God, the Redeemer, and JIJediator; 'tis a chafte Love, and a chafte Efteem, if the Wife chufe to love her Husband, becaufe he is her Husband, as the Senie eiteemeth White to be White under the Notion offuch a Colm:a·. The Operation of every Faculty is moft pure, and kindly, when it is carried toward its Object, according to its formal Reafon, without any mixture ofother Refpetls, extraneous and By-reafons, are ' rrfore Whori.fh, lefs Connatural, not fo chafte ; there is fome Wax in our -Honey, and tpis we Ihould take heed unto the eledive Power is a tender piece of the Soul. 3· Eftimation pxoduceth Love, even the Love of Chrift ; and Love is a great Favourite, and is much at Court, and dwelleth conftantly with the Kin~; to be much with ' Ghrift, efpecially . jn fecret, late and early, and to give much Time to Converfe with Chrift, fpeaketh much Love ; and the Love of Chrift is of the fame Bignefs and Quantity with Grace, f<)r Grace and Love keep proportion one with another. · 4· He who duel y efteemeth Chrift, is a noble .Bidd~r, and fo a rioble and liberal Buyer, he outbiddeth E{au : What is Pottage to Chrift ? He f)yerbiddeth yudas: What is Silver to Chrift ? Yea~
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