Moti-t.:eJ to to quicken us thereunto? A.nfw. Looke what way wee will, wee want not motives un· · to it. 1. look at Chrifr ; he denied · himfelfe for us: hee forfookeall, father ·and mother, lands and liberty, and life it felfe , yea heaven and happineffe for us. Wee cannot deny fo much for him·; x. and all ours is but a thankfull re~ turne to hi m. . 2. Looke to the world,which .bath us in {itch bands , and is fo hardly denied :It will leave u~, and deny us ;the fafhion of the world pa!f-eth away :.it denies us any continuingcity here, denie1 us a refi:ing ~place, and all that we fhould deny it. It is as Egypt to the lfrael ofGod,--full ofburdens flsm, and oppreffions :. as Me(tch, to David ; and · it lhoald bee their woe,that they are forte.dtodwell in Mefech. But this is:.the. folly ofmen: Every one complaini5 of
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