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4.20.
Not
2:
Aire& purity
of
heart
and life.
Motives.
Clean
perlons,
types
of
chrft.
Chriflian
is in a
fire
eflate.
If
forrow
be
for
a
night,
joy
will
returne
in
the
morning
;
after
darkeneffe
as
fine
to
fee
light.
As
jefus Chrift
keeper
his
headfhip,and
death
cannot
fever him quite
:
fo
the
members
may bee pin-
ched
(yet
not
quite eff)but abide
members
0i1í.
z
.
As
the
fpeciall
providence
ofGod
watched
his
owne
fonne,
that though
hoe
was
in
wicked
hands
that wanted
no
will,yet
they
were
kept
From
breaking
one
bone
of
him
:
foe
Both
the
fameprouidence
watch
over
his
members;
that howfoever the
wicked
of
the
world
pinch and
preffe
them,
yet the
promife
is
made
to
them,
He
keepes
all their
bone$, not.one
of
them
i$
broken,
that
is,
without
the
will
ofour
heavenly
Father,
as
Mat.
1
0.
tg.
Nct
arc
hayre fhall
fall ;
for the fame providence
watcheth
the
head
and
members.This confìderation
is
ufed by
Chrifl
to
remoove
exceffive feare
of
men.
If
thou
fee
thine ene-
mies encreafe
as
bees
about thee,ready to
Nike
and
fling:
Let
thy
waies pleafe
the
Lord,
he
can
i.turne
their
hearts
to
peace
as
Efaus to
Jacob
when
he purpofed
his
death
;
and
Labatn$
to
Jacob
when he intended
evill
intreaty
to.
wards him.
2.
He
can
tunic their
counfell
to
folly,and
bring
it
on
their
owne
heads,
as
in
Haman
and Acbito-
phe1.
3.
He
can
turne
their
evill
to thy good
and fal-
vation,
according
to
the
Paying
oflofeph
to
his
brethren,
Yee
intended
evill
againil
me,but
God
turned it
to
good
as
this day.
4.
He
can
take
them
off
at his pleafure;
he hath
an
hooke
for
Zenacherib
;
and Balsam
(hall
not
curfe
though he
would never
fo
faine.
3.
In
that
Chrifi
brought no
uncleane
thing
to
his
facrifice
(figured
in
pulling
out
the
maw
and
feathers,
and
calling
them
betide
the
Altar in
the
place
of
Mlles)
wee
have
com-
fort
in
the
offering
of
all
our
fervice and facrifices
of
prayer,
prayfes, alines,
duties,
all
unclean
in
and
from
us:
but
prefented
in
Chriits'facrifice noancleannetfe
is
in
them.
I
I.
How
carefull
the
Lord
is
that
his people
pre-
ferve