358 A Commentary up®nthe Goarel Chap.zt. you mend your (elves any where ? etc. But the poorfoul is ready to hang her comforts on every hedge, fl;ift and (hark in e- very by.corner for comfort, and never come at Chrift with the Hag.'c 7 hemorrhoifl'e, till all be (pent, tilt fhe be fbrfaken of her hopes. Men will not delire Chrift. till { haken. eAl ye ] All, H alit-tieward, but of large extent. Thepro; mifes are indefinite, and exclude none. It is not for us to be in. terlining Gods Covenant, and excepting our felves, howbad tò. ever, if broken-hearted. That labour ] Even tolafíitude, but ro no purpofe, labour in the fire whereyou can make nothing of your labour. And areheavy laden ] Poifed to an inch, ready to be weigh- 7ep qr/e or ed down to hell, with the turnof a (cale, with the duff of a bal- lance fuperadded. Other mighthave Chrift, if they would come to him. But till then, none will come. Steep thy thoughts in this Tweet fentence, thou burdened foul, and come away to the Matter, (as they Paid toblinde Bartimeats) for beholdhecalleth thee, And I*illgive yess refl ] No reft co the weary foul but in Chrift, (as the dove found no reft till fhee returned co the Arke ) It flees from this thing to that, as the bee cloth from flower to #lower to get hony, as San/ fought his alles from place to place. But as he found them at home after all, fo muff we finde reft and refrefhing in Chrift, or not at all. Let him that walketh in dark. nefle, and hachno light, teuft in the name of th'e Lord, andgay up- on his God. As for thofe that will kindle a'ftrange fire,and compafla themfelves about with the fparks of their own tinderboxes,lec them walkwhile they will in the light of their fire and in the (parks that they have kindled, But this(hall they have of C'hrifts hand, theyfhall lye down in (arrrow, Ifa.5o io.i z. Verfe 29. Take myyeak_ uponpots ], q.d. 'Though freedby me In re ma ti_ from the damning anddomineering power of finne, you muff not Serrate minima think to live as you lift. To argue frommercy to liberty is the de- ticeetia. Sale vils logick: from mercy co duty is the right reafoning as, Rom. z x. t. Chriftians muff not be yoakleffe, lawleffe, mafterlefe,be- hulls, that wander at will as wild alles, or caner dP:4,norrbut they muff yeeld the obedience of faith, andbeadding to their faith zymX fens vertue, and toverme knowledge,d°c. Inking the graces hand in 4 °'"'s t r hand as in a dance (fo the word Ggnifies) tohail they have an entrance miniltred unto them further and further into Chrifis gloriouskingdo rso±arar77ft And
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