_ . -....._ r..c:,t;.::;._4 4 A wholeforne Caveat to the direfting will of Chrift, when this is thy way, though thou goeft oft out ofit, yet comeft in it again, as fin ii s a wicked mans way, although he goeth a thoufand times out ofit. Now for the other, the correcting will of Chrift;The lr:. hash (trong trials: Nowhere fuhje&ion to Chrift is requi- red as 'well as to the directing will of 'Chrift ; then the foul fainnits to this will when the mind objectsnot,char- ges not God with folly, as Eli, i Sarn.3. i8. It is the Lord, let him do what feemeth himgood ; And likewife the will, though it bath had many fad bouts,yet this is his frame in the Conclufon, that the wil ofChrift is better than every thing die, the wil ofChrift is alone fweet to him. Ifa> 38. faithBezekjiah,Good is the wil o of the Lard, & fo Lam. 3. It's goodfor a man to bear the yore in his youth, and to turn his cheeks to him that finites him; Nay when there is fpiritual evils on the foul,as was on Chrift himfelf,fpiritual defer- tions, nothing but bitternefs & forrow ; yet the foul faith, as Chrift did, Not my will, but thine be done, Father fave me from this hour, yet Father glorifie thyfelf, and fo the foul does humbly fubmit it felf to the Lord; though the Lord fhouldnever piety it,yet it will lye down at the feat of the Lord, now is Gods Iiingdome come. But if the foul wil have Chrift, and yet caft off the wil of Chrift, r. Either in his judgement, that the law of God as given by Chrift, fhould be no rule to a Chr iftian ; fuppofe you were in England, and were there preft to bow before an Altar, or Image ; what (hall lead you, if thatGods will and lawmutt not be your rule ? The Lord will one day make you know his bieffed will, in that blef- fed law ofhis, tat ye fhah never find peace to theend of the world, exc pt the Lord do help ye thus to walk. A- gain,when men cannot endure the wil ofChrift,cannot é- dure exhortations, what cloth the man mean to exhort us thus?I tell tkee,there goeth forth power with the exhor- taions of Chrift. I fay, take heed ofcafting offthe will of Chrift here; and fo whenmen in their pra&ice (hail quarr rei againft anyof Gods truths, andare loath to fee it, of if they do , yet not love dearly every truth of God, but it's a burden to thetn;efpecially if it croffe their own ends and gain, they will not fee it to be a truth,left they fhould be convinced, and turn ro the rule of it; if the will and ordinances of Chrift he aburden to a man, and aman is not weary of his wearincífe, but weary of them all the while :
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