tl6 lt is the "Voice ofmy Beloroetl [ Sa~. V. knockings; but then efpe~iallywhenrhey have [ inf\rllCl:ion thus with them. They are meffeogers I Lev.:r.6.z4• from God,both Bleffings and CorrecHons, they . · , willnot ~tway (efpecially correttions) till they \ have an anfwer, for they are fent of God, who will add [even times more;and if rhe firfi be not anfwered, then he fends afcer them, he will be fure eo haveananfwer,either in our Converlion,. or ConfufioQ,when he begins once. j : Many other wayes he ufetb to knocke at our GDJ ~~~oc~etb hearts. Thetx~mplesof thofe we live among that are by the ~~oJhex· good,they ca!i upon us,The patternes oftheir holy ampteJoj.Qt err l't.', h l fG d . a· h . Luk.t~ ;,JJ• lie. T eexlmp es 0 o sJU tee upon ot ers, 1 Cor.I o. are fpeeches tous;God knocksatourdoorethen; He intends our correCtion, when he vifirs ano- ! ther, ·when if we amendby thar, he needs not t . take us in hand. l 4. Bur ·bdides al1 this, there is a more neare B! hu mini(lc· knocking, tnat Chrifi ufeth to the Church, flit " 48 knock,zng. minifttriall knecking, when he was here in the dayes of his fleth, he was a Preacher and ProEph.4. 1 phet himfelfe, aAd m~whe is afce,nded into hea.. ven, he bath given gifi:s to men, a·nd men to the Church, whom hefpeakesby to the end of the world , they are Chrifls mouth , as wee faid' { r ·k······· of the pen-men 0f holy Scripture; they were ·bur the hand to write,Chrift was the head to in. dite : So in preaching and unfolding the Word,. they are but C'hrifis mouth and his voy<:e (as it is fa idofJohn) Now he is in heaven, he (peaks by them; Hethathe4rethyoH,heqethme 3he that Jef}ifttb yDN,dtj)ifttbme. Chrift is either received . .. , )
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