----------------~--~----------~----- },1} hands dropt"Sl?ith m_yrrh,&c,_ The third thing obfervable from hence is this, ~sR.1X. That Gods Graces ttrc fweet. - Ohflrv.J. Pleafant and fweet,comp:tred hereto myrrh, which was an ingredient in ,rhe holy oyle. Grace makes us fweet,praycrs arefweer, as it is,Rev.8. 4· ChrHl: mingleth them with his owne fweet odours, and fo takes and offers them to God. Holy Obedience is fw.eet and delightfuU to ·Godand to the confcience, it brings peace and delight toothers,therefore they are called.fruits; fruit cloth ·not onely imply and iliew the itfuing. of good things from the root, but there is alfo a plea'fantneffe in it-: fo there is adelightfulncffe in good works,as there is in fruit to the raft ; there:– fore if wee would be fweet and ddightfull to God,let us labour to have grace.. If wee would thinke ofour feives with contentment, and have ·inward fwectneffe, L~t us labour for the graces of Gods Spirit,thefe are likemyrrh. The wicked Pmv.ts.t. dre tll# t~lomitMtion unto the Lord, who abhorres them,and whatfoever is in them: Bur, the righteeru t~ndfincere fiMTJ is his delight. Therefore ifwe would approve our !elves to God,and feelethat he hath delight in us) labour to be fuch as he may delight in. Wherefore let the difcourageei foule make Vfo. this ufeof it; notto beafraid to doe that which is good upon feare we 1hould finne. Indeed finnewill cleave to that we doe, but Chrifi will pardon the finne, and accepr that which is fweet of his owne Spirit. Let us not efreeme bafely of that which Chrifi efteemes highly of; nor R 4 let :
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