Chap.7. according t© St M A r T H s vv. howfoever growing downward at leaf(, if you cannot finde fo comfortable a groth upward. Humility is both a grace and a Nn not eta. veffel to receive grace : for God will give grace to the-humble, quimur mag. and teach the lowly -minded. Grow alío in the knowledge of our na,fed vivo. Lord Iefus Chrift : proving by Experience in your felves, what rnrrr° that good,that holyandacceptablewill ofGod is. Let yourknow. ledge and practice run paralleli, and be of equall extent. Study to live rather then to difpute, to ac`t rather then to contemplate: learn and labour to feel in your felves the fweetneffe and good - nefle, the lifeand power of that youknow. The devil confefled Chrift as well as Peter,Mark.5.7. Mat.16.17. but the devil with a common knowledge,fwimming in the brain, Peter witha laving knowledge (baking to the heart root, and working upon the affe ¿tions,thofe immediate fprings of adtion. ' 'This is that knowledge, not apprehenfive only but affective too,i that makes the minde good,full of incitations to good, glad of all occafions todoe good, free from the ftain and raignof formerTufts, inclinable to ferve God and our brethren by love, fearing the Gofpel more then the Law, and Gods goodneffe more then his juftice. Now to grow in thefe graces and in this knowledge, is the ready way to fecureour felvesfrom feducers, to approve our felves to have beenconfcio. .nable hearersof a found Miniftry, tuchas are founded upon a rock, and are therefore unmoveable, tuch as have gottena knowledge fo clean and certain as nohxretick can draw from us : And lattly,to fiveourfelvesfrom that untowardgeneration, our Saviour (peak- Aas a. eth next of, in the fubfequent vertes, that have no more to Phewor fay for themfelves then Lord,Lord, &c. Verfe 2I. Not every one thatfaith untome Lor,d,Lord, Jhall enter; &c.] Not every verbali profeffour, or forward pretender to meand my truth,fhall be laved. Thatfon ofperdition,called Chrift Lord, Lord, yet betrayed himwith a kille; and is gone to his place. How many Judaffes have we, that !peakChrift fair, but by their loofe and lawletle lives, deliver him up to thefcoffs and buffetings . of his enemies ? that bow the knee tohim, and bid Hail Ding of the lows, yet finite him on the face, and bid him prophecy Mao (mote him, that put a reeden fcepter inhis hand, and make him a titular Lord only, havingnomore then afirmof knowledge, Rom. 2..2o. apretence ofpiety,2Tim.3.5. and a femblance ofianetimo_ uy, Luk8. i 8. contenting, themlelves with the name of Chri.. flians :.. As if many a (hip. had not been called Safe-gard,or Good., si,eeda,,,
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