Flying in perfo~tttion •.___ x!!_} not greateR: perfetlion for a, childe, to-offer to ru.n before hee · can goe ;but boldneffe, which · cofieth him many knockes and falls. Neither · for thofe of a lower fiature in Chrift ,· to ca.ft : themfelves into danger, before, or further rhan need lhall require : for, when times cpme that G 0 D feeth fit for any by ~eath to glprifie himfelfe·, and edifie his Chun;h, his providence will find meanes without amans owne prefumption to call him thereto, · · .. · . . Now\t:he·point itfuing out of the words t.hns expounded, is this .: . who[oev~r undertak!th the profeffion of Chrijf, muft tafe! hu life in hiJ h.md if nee.d he, ~nd. give it for theN ame of C hrift : Revel. 2. 10. BN thoufaithfu!l unto' death. Lu~e 14 2 6. If any man com.e to . me,and hate not all, yea even hid owne life, he cannot ~e my Difcip1e : by hatred h~e . m.eanes not . that Doclt. Maint3inc thy holy profefsi<\n ro the death.
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