.AndmyBelo!Jedismine. Let this put us upon a fe:uch into our felves, what we retire too whenwe meet with affiiet:i 6s; rhofe that have brutifh and beafily foules ret1re ro carnall contenrmems, to ,good fellowfhip, forget, befot, and fly away from rhemfdves, thdr owne confciences ,~ and thought of their owne trouble, whereas a foule that bathany' acquaintancewith God in Chrifr,orany imereft into Chrilt, fo that it may fay, that Chtift is mine and I amChrifis,therewill be contentment and refi in fuch afoule, whatfoever it meets with in the world. SBR.XIX. what we fbou lJI retire to and ilo in ajjMtions. The lafi thing implyed is courage, a branch of 7· the former; fay all againft it What they can, faith Is courage in the refolved foule, I will be Chritl:s, here is B'IPning chriftt cauft with refocouragewithrefolution~agreeable hereto is that, Lution, for the lfa.44·5· One 1hall fay lam the Lords,and anocbanbu re– therihaH call himfelfe by the name oflMob,ano· fa~ute, ther fhall fubfcribe and firn:tme himfelfe by rhe name of Ifrael. Where there is not this refolution iA good caufes, there is not the Spirit of Chrilt, ther:re is no interdl: unt.o Chrift,it is but a dc.dufion and felfe- flattery to fay I am Chrifts, I when there is not refolution to ftand to Chrift: thefe words are the expreffion of a refolved heart,! am, and I will be Chrifts, I am not afha– medofmy bargaine, ofthe coFlfent I have given him,I am and I will be his. You have the like in U'Uic~tb 4·5"" All people will walke every one in the name efhis god, they will refolve on that, aad we will walke in the name- of the Lord our God for ever ·and ever : fo that 1 Mic.1h 4 .r. Ee 4 . where' ------~~---- --------~
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