--~- 442 I Jammy Belo-veds, 5 E ll~X IX. f~l~es toGod,t~~~~~rne t;Ch-ri_fr_a_ga-i-ne_w_ith )our duty, thenwe-come as we flmuld doe, when \ we comt: thusdifpofed. This tordireCl:ion,c...Uy Beloved is mine,AndI ammy Beloveds. Vfl.4. [ To proceed, to make an Ufe of Comfort to For r ~Oilljort to pooredoubting Chrifiians, I ammy Bel~veds is tbs wea~er \ • f h. l ' cbri{fians,a.nJ thevo1ceo t ewho eChurcb,thatallranksof ro tbs "Whole ChriHians (if they be true) may without pre– cbut,b. fumption take up. I h:lVe not fo much Faith, fo much love, fo much gr:t,e,fo much patience, as another (faith apoore Chrifiian) therefore ram none of Chrill:s ; but we mufi know that Chrifi bath in his Church of:~tl ranks, and they are all ·his Spoufe, one as well as anorher,there is no, ex– ception,there is~ little fpiritof emulation,and a fpice of envy in ·Chrillians that are weaker, if ·th~y have not all that great meafure of grace which they fee in others, they fearethcy have none ar all, a~ if there were no Babes in Chrifis fchoole,asweU .as men,andgrowne perfons. Thar:~he n~ture Then ag~in~, we fee here the nature of Faith of Fatt~ u the in rhe whole Church it is the fame that is in evefame tn the> •· 1 ' • • "Wbole cburcb1 ry .parucuiar,and the fame m.every parttcular,as &:~ inevery pQr· it is in the whole Church. The whole Church ti,ular1llember. faith, I 11111 my Beloveds j.'mdmy BeiiJved ismine, I a-ppropriate him, the·re is a fpirit of 3ppropri– arion in the whole, and there is fo in each partiGal.z. ·cular.Every Chrifl:ianmay fay with Paul, Ilive ·by FAith in the Somuof GtJd,thAt hAth lovedmeand 'gave him[el{1 fwme, 3nd with Th1m111, my God 11ndmy Lord. Theground hereofis,becaufe theyareall o~e m
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