for a lime ofLiberty. 77 5. If nine ofthefe, Satan, nay thrift hirrifelf will come 5, out with garments dirt in blood. 3. 'I inot fay,'Tis not fo there is fweet fubje-ion, i.e. 'tis fo, and`blefled be God for it, yet beware, I fpeak to prevent. But yet . Soine teen to do fo, and yet are not fo, 2 Cor. ro.4,5.Mighty to pull down everyThigh thought, who attains this, who can be thus ? yet there are means mighty for this end, not that all be abolifhed, but all are a.bolifhing. 2. Others otherwife, openly how,zealous for an opinion,when it fhouldbe death to differ, & things in your own heart lying miferably waf}e, and fome wretched lull the root of all,for whichGods Saints mourn in fecret. Let Inch know, that will not be ruled by Chrifi, or his fervants or ordinances, but will have them to rule them, and not tobe ruled by them. The Lords chainsare near, and therefore now rake . your time and come in fubmit to the Lord, and do as thefe here did; ac knowledge the Lord to be righteous, and turn unto the Lord. Vfe 6. Of thankfulnefre, for our prefent liberties andVfe 6. freedome from the bondage of men, bondage of confci- ence, bondage of Satan and fin : need there is of laying this ufe ferioufly to heart, canfdering two things prin- cipal ly. t.`Fhe general complaints of the Countrey, as they of Jericho, 2 Kings 1. io. The waters are bad, and the ground barren, and there areengraven in Marble, all other our liber ies are wihten on the water. 2. The dif- grace and reproach cafe upon Gods people and wayes of God, and that unjuftiy, which I am atraid to mention ; whence there grows a contempt of them, and the rivers of Damafcus now are better than Jordan.. Oh beloved, if it be an heavy hand of God to be under bondage, then look on it as a fpeciall grace ofGod to free us trom bon- dage. Dent. 32. 11,r 2.The Lordalone did lead them,V (-and 3er. 2, 20, Mofes, ch. ap.33.29. whenhe hadbleflèd them, Happy art thou Oh Iliad, a Peoplefaved by the Lord. And the greater caufe we have to do this, a People that have abufed all liberties. /f.9.8,9, lie laments it, but yet is thankful! for it to Gods grace . noman that can fay but hemay be as holy as he will, and none to curb or fnib. r. Means, Confider- what all: the liberties Gods peo i. ple enjoy have cofr, Gal, 5._ Co =ft bath made you free ;; i. e. by his blood. Liberty of Cunlcience from the bondage, ict of Jew "r2h, !rot of A ,tichrifiian Ceremonies , and Government,
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