Shepard - Houston-Packer Collection BV4500 .S43 1657

10¢ of iral Hearing the Ward. Gods people, they do leave a marvellous vertue, to make the for!lcs of Gods people like watered gardens, and to inereaf:: in grace-. Note it by the way you that live under rhemeans of grace, your fouls fball bé like watered gar- dens ; it God have frcsi.cen to you raft or Lift, the Lord freaks many times to you, foY-netime:s affeding, and (tame- times L..'a.réiing,'oaRmetimt:s ct3rsvip3£:i61g' and humbling, and fpeaking re ace, and there is a venue that remaines, andifyc find.ituyt, know disc od bath not 'poker'to You. 6' ° The eternal! efficacy .of the word may be prefrved in a power of C.aniii& againft the power of fin : for there- in. the Lords power of the biVard does principally ap- Pear in this life, though not in a g-oWtr of vidory, I mean a comyl. at viaory,yet an impelledand incompleat vieîo- iy, there ever is full or lait. whet e ever there is a pow- er of Gor?f;iit- I mean chits, the Word it ffngles a min out, and fpetrks to his heart, &'fcts him at variance with d'is fin , and with hiim:fif for his fin , and he }oJ,.es f:-ic with'Qod in the ufe of all rmieasics, that his uubrti.vi..g heart andproud Spirit may be f!]:mdr;ed; it him at va- riance with his ; now there is many a :hrifrianthinks there is no power of she Word : oh my unbelief coati:- )mrres fi lI q,,c:i my vain mii,d,iar:ci l can find ffengthi no, uu.,irt not look for a power of c',rupleat vm.dory, bat yet r:iere is ;i( f}.>Lv:_'r of (,,imfSttm ; 4'.}d he lets the foul at an a:'rerl4=ftitmg îYi sa'$meewith his fin, never to be re- c ncilt-c$, and looks to the Lord, that by his Word and. . Spirit he would I :}<te them, t+ar í3 he may fec the ee..ti O ttîtrrr,s iPC' i(it5 with the LorC! in the tile ofai! means, Ci)tcit's Cct rl3e word,. and comes to Prayer, and fag'es, S;s'.mk at;ains ar:i;t..ord,wafte theft: diite'npertic to rlme foul rs thus at' va: iaemce with his firm, although his i1iC-ip"`rY:+C10 gC; wind and k4 of he goes again, and to agyrrl : and thokogtt he p4r1i7-ieth3, and never have mercy from the ?..c,rd,ycr, fi o41, tliar I may never fin aaisi> thee rmv,re, help therefore , Lord , by this pro- Mill:, and mercy and means, and here he keeps him, and her he hnjr;s. Truly, brethren, here is an eters'aIl ver- tue, and filch a vertue- as no hYpocrites have, that have fc n:c fting of eon;cier.e.:, and after they have forr,e peace, they are at truce with their fins. No, there is an ever- éaftiYig c.;;,fliFt and wa:fafe, and I do afiimre you there is ra eyerlafting `power gone fotch. mat. (2o ac> Chr - swalt

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