Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

ltt, \ But my heart rvaketh~ , . SBR. nu. theCburch,butthisrdled:aelby thehdpofthe Spirit, that lhewas able to judge-ofthe good, as well asof the ill. Thus .D.-v;el, Tlit Jeftres '.four fouls areto·.,artJthee;and though all this have be– fallen us, yet have \ve not forgotten thy' Name, . Pfol.44~2o.Thiswil inableustoappealetoGod : as Peter, Lordthou knoweft I love thee, ids an evi-.1 dance ofa good dl:are. · 1 1 Pet. x. Mat,:z.6. - cfily he~~rt w4keth. 'I Gods child~en never totally fall from grace, though·they fleep,yet their heartis awake. The Prophet EJay fpeakingof the Churchand chil– . dren of God ,Ifo.6. I 3.faith, It}hallbe ,uA 'ree,M : 411 oake whofefi~.~fl~~n~e u i(J them, when they ca.ft ' their leaves. Though you fee neither fruit, cor leaves,yetthere is life in the root,T/geftedrun•ins in them,there is allway a feed' remaining, it is an imrnortatl feed that we are begotten by. Peter when he denied his Mafi:er, was like an Oake : that was weather.beat~n, yet there was life fiill inthe root : 'ForqudlionldfePeter loved Chrifi from his heart. Sometimes aChrillian may pe in fuch a poore cafe as rhe fpiritualllife runneth all to the heart,<md the outward men is leftddl:i– tute : As in wars,whenthe enemy hath conque– red the field,t~epeople run into the City; and i~ they be' beatenout af the City they run into the Caftle:thegraceof God fometirnes failes in the utward~d:ion, in the field,when yet ir retireth o the heart)in whichfort it is impregnable,t>l-!y · I tArtw4keth. When th.eoutward man fieeps, and thereare wcake

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