I .Andmy Belorvedis mine. I 461 f he firfi takes us. ,Let none defpaire either for SE&.XX. want of worth or of firength, Chrift feeth that Ezek,16. for firength we are dead, and for worth we are Eph 5.2.7, I enemies; but he gives us both fpirimall ftrength and wonh, takes us neare to hirnfelfe, and enri– cheth u~. Let ~one therefore be difcouragecl, it is our .office thus to lay open and offer the riches I of Chtifi:If youwill not comein~but love your , finfull courfes more then Cbr!fi, then you perilh I in ycur bloud, and w~ free our bards, and may free our fo.ules from theguilt thereof; therefore as you love your owne foules,come in at length and fland out·no longer. And for thofe that have in fome meafure given chemfelvc:s up to Cbrifi, and can fay, He iJ i mine AndI~mhit, letthem goe on wirh comfort and never be difcouraged for the infirmities that hang about them. For one part of Chrifl:s Of. fice is to pm~ge his Church by his Spirit more 3nd moreEphe{.s.27.not to caft he·r away for her infirmities, /;ut to wt~jh and clearJfe it more and m1re ttll it 6eagloriom Spoufe like htmfelfi : For /if the h~sband .will ?¥ the bond .of nature, lbeare wuh the mfirmmes of the wtfe (as the I weaker vefftll) cloth not Chrill bind himfelf~ by that which he accounts us bound~ Is there 1 more love, and mercy, an~ pitty in us torhofe (that we take neare us, rhen there is in Chrifi: 1 to us ~ What amoft blafphemousthought were this to conceive fo ~ Ondy let us take heed of being in league with finne, for we cannot give our foules to Chria, acd to fin full courfes too ; Gg 2 Chrifi: , ' xbortalion ttJ I hem 1 hat h4'tfe 1 ghms themr I ftlves to eh-rift,
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