·I· Opened and Applied. j ~3 . . nor only gave him. rh~ fighr ~f Come dear friend al.ways,, but as oft as he lo<?ked ' in ir, makes him hk.e unr? ~1m, how ~ou~d be pnze this .glafs, but efpectally 'j the image of his f:1end m1t ! fo Chn!t IS no.t only glonous, but he thereby makes himfelf glonous. I . .~ . S E C T. VIII. ObjeCI:.DO wt [a) the Lord cP.n~this, but he will not; Saims wo~tld if · t he7 could. AH[w. 1, You do not know but that he will do it; when Chri!t was here on earrh, and men were lick , though their friends willed their good ; yet : I doubt not but Chri!t was mofi gloriou~, becaufe though they knew not that he would, yet they knew that he might heal and picy, and if it were for his henor he would. · ~. Pray to him for it, and do it ; he will pour water on the thirfty, andgive ·the.Spirit and water of life to them that ask._; Do not think you feek in vain, efpecially if yo~tr. cryes arife .from a lick heart, that (tn is thy ~ifeafe not torment onely ; u 1s not thy dehght, you need a Phylinan, he w1il not heal you, if it is not your temper, your food,&c. If a man hatha mind to a thing, and another denies him, he will not fee lefs beauty then, than he did befpre ; if you have a mind, Chri!t ha~h a mind alfo. Obj. But I do mt feefthe Lord giving me the Spirit. . eAnfw. Yet if you prize it, and reach afterit, the Lord hathdone this for you. · ' SECT. IX. TO alltheServantsoftheLord, if everyoudidanygoodtoany, OhboaH not of your felves; but carry the glory of it ro the Lord Jefus, as he faid the Lord doth good by me, but I know no-reafon why: S0 add a!fo, but I wonder at the manner how a poor,weak, dead nothing,whofe Uiidean heart and lips p1ight have made others.worfe, not better, as infe6tion !ticking to the beft garmenrs,Acr.3.1 2,1 3.Why (land 7e look..fmr on us ? be it k3own to you, bJt he name , •f Jefus it is that which ts done; when Chri!t was known ro heal all difeafes, all the Country rouncl about by rhis fame of him came to him, and fo he healed them; this will bring in cuftomers to Chriil:: Some Chriflians are very forward ro fpeak to others, ro let in fome new notion, or ro convert, char rhey ' may make an .A bf•loms pillar afterward, and that rhey might report I did ehis; iome take content in fpeaking of converlion of others, that I did rhis. Let JoHr work! praife you, but let your tongue praife Chri(t; it was the LGrd that did this. If bread could fpeak it would fay, it is not I that feed; and fire, nor I char warm: You can fpeak, cell others fo; you would fain b~accounredfome body, and ~herefore will devife new Gofpels, and mine new notions; chat not only I Ch!ill may be. pleafed, bur men may fay, rhis I received of fu~h a one, rhat the1r names m1l;hc be fpoken of. The Theif rakes rhe i11eep for h1mfelf, agood Shepheard ,carnes ~t horue to his owner. \ \. SECT. .L-. ,. Vfe z,
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