~ -~1?~-__ \ -~~-:--:-------;-.:---T:--;-he-;-'1---::)~ar=-a_b:-::l_e~o f;--t_he--::-:-:---- lfrom him, n.1ybefore theyhad a11y Chri{~ oraffurance of him rhey m::re bcrre; ' tbn now. _You have norhn1g w do I~Hh the Lord Jcfns, you atc curofyour I pL:ce. As 111 Jothams p;mble, the Oh,·c and Vme would nor be! pulled our of their places, to be [er on the rops of other uees, _as King> ; ldl rhey lofe rhcir famefs and fweernds : So Gnce you luve do~. ed With Chn!t, you bwe loft your I ·f,t mefs ,llld fweetnefs rhat on_ce you had, you are now 01-lt of yonr pbce, go ro !your horrors and forrowsagam, nil the Lord fo gtve b1mfdf ro v0u as dur · I you may receiYdife from him. · · I2!!efl· 3• I But muft all come thm to Chrift with their whole foul, will not part of the prict ! I I .Anfw. -9..!'.efl.4· .Anfw. {erve? No, the 1Vh0lc{oul mull: come, and cannot but come. _I. Inrcg<rdofrhe}l!lloufi~ofGod; who islikea je,tlous Husband, canbcar Wtth many wcaknerfes, b~r- Will have the whole heart; · and they t:hat do nor, !hall bedeflroyed for fpmmal Whoredom, Pfa/.73·27· Hefhoulddilhon:>ur Chri!l: e!{e, to fell him fo cheap. 2. _In reg~rd of rhe excellency of Chri£1: : The Lord dmvs the foul by the revelattonofhtm, Rom_.x.x6,17. Ifa·55·3A· N~w look as men in this world, when thej fee a fcem111g good, rhetr whole foul IS over-powered robe dr•wn I . after ir. So here, when fuch an Object is fcen, efpeciall y rhe Soul having been at his Sepulcher weepin.;, as Iron never !l:irs till rhe Loadltone comes, and then I it makes w rhlt only , notto things wucht with it: For :~s we love him becaufe he loved m firft, fo Chrifl loving the foul with ••ll his hem, and his whole hem lferuroa him, the whole foul is e cantta feton Chrifl. " 3· In regard elfe aman can receive nothing from the Lord, Jer.2g,IZ,I). As •ris with Conduit-Pipes, let {hem be bid, but not reach the Conduit head, no water can come to chat Family; fo here: And this is the reafon why men live and pray, and receive nothing, their hearts reach not hither: Mens hem; reach bur half way w Chri!l: : Tell me elfe, did you ever not receive ? 4· Bec:mfe elfe 'tis indeed no coming to him, but a leming on him or rowJrd ~ him. So as 'ris 1virh uees, if not cut off quite, or mt pulled up quire by the roots, rbeycannot be fer in another Orchard, if the tree be le[r with never f.o hnle twJgs tn the ground, fo here: Nay the Lord accounts th1s worfe than if aman bad not c0me at all, Jer.3.1o, The Lord abhor>a double heart, char J udM-like forfakes all for the Lord, but then loves the Lord and the Bag roo.l You are not ~be Lords. As it was wi;h chat man that quarr~le_d about the tree, ic leaned over the Pales,but the root bemg found to be tb!ere, h1s u was : So thouoh be leafl Olil Chrifl, heis none ofhis. "' But do all Saints come to this meafure? Ponder thefe groundselfe. 0/;jeCI:. Bur are not our hearts partly carnal, and fo clofe with the Creature? Anfw. True, but yer, I. Sof1r as •ris carnal 'tis lamented heavily; fo that they grownorrhere, I bur are dying, withering d~yl y, Jer.p.x8,tg. 'Yhen. a mans affeaiom gr~w out of the world, and there 1snofear nor farrow, 111 rh1s refpect now, no Chnll: , I 1is there. · / z. TheBentandByasofthe Soul carries thewhole Soul hither. Forlwould not jud<>e of this fo much by fudden pangs, as by an imvard bene; for rhe whole · Soul in ~ffecti(.)nare cxpre!Iions and aCtions may be carried Ul'lto Chri!l:,_ but being I without this bent and change o~ affeGl:im~s, it•s unfound. As in_ G1deGn, they · I . would on a hurry make him Kmo : .He would not: He kne;v It was a fudden • 1pang which would die. And rhe re~foni is, rhe true rurnof_ the whole Soul is not I i by rumil'J old affeCtions upon another Object, but changmg them fir!l: by this l 1 bene, an fo turnin£ them. For a carnal hearc may have the fir£1:, as the fame eye ·-·---- - '- may
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