_!7 z, - I He is altogether lorve[y.. \ SE:a..XVII to fee h. is mifery, thenofallrruthsthetrutbofl. Luk ~~. Chrifi favours bell:: Thofe truths that come our ofrhe mouth of Chrill,and out of the minifiery concerning Chri11: they are moll: fweetof all. Oh 1 how fweet are thofe words in the Gofpell to the poore man, thy flnnes are forgiventhee, doe you thinke they wet:tt not to his heart~ So to the wo– man,Luk.7• her many finnesarefi.1rgiven her,for fhe loved much, 0 h they were words that went to her foul e. And to the theefe on the croffe, This day thots Jbalt he with me in Paradice, how doe you thinke thofe words affeCted him~Soit is with us, if ever We? have been abafed in the fence of our linnes,0 how fweet is a ptomife of Iob 33 ,, 3 : mercy then. He that !Jrings it is tU one often thou·. fond,that comes tQ declAre to manhu righteou(nes,to. lay open the mercy that belongs to a difirdfed foule, Oh the very feet of thofe that bring thefe Rom.to. 1 > • glad tidings are beamifull;When our bieffed Saviour after hh refurrection fpaketo UJ.Iary, and called her byher name,afterthat fl1e had fought him and could not find him (Oh Ra6o.11i, faith fhe) the words of Chrifi they melted her pre- , Ex.od.H~ Ifa,43, t. Pial.~ 1. fently. Let Chrifi once call us by our names, for - he knowes us byname, as he knewU'vtofes, Jet himby his Spirit fpeake to us byname~andown us, then we call him Ra~on;,we owne him again, for what is our love but therdlectionofhis back againe ~ Therefore (faith the PfalmW:) Let me he4Te the voice cf joy and gladnejfeJ that the /;ones thattho!lhaft hr11ken may rejoyce. Let me heare,that is , I long for thy word to heare it, nor the bare \
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