' It hthe~oiceofmJ Belo'1Jed SaR. V. ownehcarts,whereiftherebedeadneffe,andde- · fertion ofSpirit,lay the blameupon your felves, and enter intoafearchofyour ownewayes, and fee what may berhe caufe. · Now to come. more: particularly to Chrifts_ carriage here knocking at the heart of the fleepy Th~t c;,;p Church.We fee,That chrift t11kes 110t theaJvAn- :~t!:::;:~nJ tAge And forfiittJre 1fthefins ifbi4Church,to leAve orfeitur~ oftheI them Altogether, hut m~kesforther And forther love Chf o~bu to them, though the Church be fleepy, Chrifl R.:;.'3.~o. continues kaocking. The Church ofLAodicetJ was aluke.warme,pmud,hypocriricall Church; yer,Behold (fairh.Chrill:) Iftand At thedoore, 4nd knocke, and it was fuch aChurch as was vaine– g1orioes, andconceited. I .tmrich, And wt~nt nu– thinK, when foe wM poere,hlind, Anan.cked. And here he dmh not onely ll:and knocking, but he withall futfereth indignities, theJew to fall upon him, which we fhall fpeake more of hereafcer. ChrHl: therefore refufeth not weake linners, he– that commands, thAt we .fboulrirueivehim th.zt is" weAke in thl fAith, and not £atl him off from our fellowfhip,and company~will he reject him that isweakeand fleepy~No, what Fatherwill paffe by, or negled: his childe for f0mefailings, and weakne~es, Nature will move him to refpeet him as his childe. . Now Chrill: is mercifull both by his office, andbyhis nature;our nature he tooke uponhim, . Heb.a.1 1 • tkat he might be a mercifull Redeemer. And . 1 Ioh.4.1'· then3sGodalfohe is love, G1dis lo·ve, thatis, J whatCoevcr ·God fuewes himfelfe to his . Church;,;
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