4to y Cal. 5. to. i Gal. 3.ro, 13. a Rom.z. ry. b r Pet. 2.9. C Pfal. 107. DD. O6 er. d IoG.rs. xge CnAP,5. "in Expfition VIM the ßrft Vax.4. Gods people hence learne no fmall part of Wif- dome, in all their reading, hearing, meditating of the Word of God ; that part of it efpecially, thatis Tent in threateingand terror. Know thou for thy comtorr, that Feare fit God,and efchewefi: emill, the Thunderings and Cur- tis of the Law, though they belonged ro thee in the flateof Nature, they belong nor to thee in the thee of Grace. It is fearful), that Taal remembers out of ()t ofes, ,1 Cyrted is emery one that..conti,nes not in all things written in the Booke of the Laub, to dee them ; But comfortable, that het annexcth for Gods children, uni- ted vnto Chrìfl : Chrifit herb redeemed vs from the Curfe of the Law, being made a curie for vas, &c. Ifay nor, but there is a good vie of terrors, medita- ted by Gods children : firfl, to prouoke to thankfulnefTe vnto God, that bath exempted them from the common condemnation: fecondly, to increafe humiliation for fînne.: thirdly, to quicken the dulneffe of our flefh, wherewith wee are too oft ouertaken. But this I am lure of; Iftherebee any thing deadly in the Word of God, from that his children are exempted ; if any thing comfortable, therein they haue their portion. That from rhefcopt: The particulars follow; wherein fitfl offers it feile the gracious eflate.of Gods people : They are nor in darknclfe. Darknelfe, in propertie of fpecch, is the abfence or privation of light. Metaphorically in Scripture i. ligni- fies, firfl, the flare of a Ignorance ; fecondly, the flate of b Irzpirtie ; thirdly, the flare of e (»uifery Here 1peci. ally putfor the ffateof Ignorance. And from the refemblance, the Obferuation is profi- table, That the fiate.of Ignorance is a fiats of Darineffe ; Inch men line in a perpetuail night. Thus take the pro- portion ; He that walker in darkne f c, d knowes not whi. tber he pee ,wanders in a maze,not.knowing whether hi- goes right, or wrong,or wharmïfchiefes he may fall into Such
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