indrawingpoor finners unto hisson. Foul and of Apollo, of Cëphas and this mans Church (as they now call it) But as they wereall baptized by one Spirit, and into one Body , and as they wereofone mind and of one fpirit, andf ò of one heart , andfo brought to the general affem- bly of the Church ofthefïrft born. And thereforewe mull con- 3. .chide there is nothing that gathers or draws in the foul of man untoJefils Chrift, but the everlajlingpower ofGod. We know alfo,men may worfhipat JeruJirlemthis way and that way, and pretend tohonour that Chrift who died there,and yet theydoe but draw nigh to himwith their lips, but not with the fpirit & in truth ; but no man cando thefe things in the power ofGod, nor fo much as S A Y that Iefus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghoff, and by the power ofJefus Chrift. And be ihre that every plant that my heavenly father bath not planted,fhall be rooted up. Fromwhence allo laflly, If the power of the Father only Vfe. 4. draws the fpirit ofman unto the Son, and unto fefus Chrift: then let every man look in, and untohis own heart, and fee whether he doenot refill the drawing of the fpirit : Behold, faith he,lfandat the door and Mock; ifany man hear my voice and open the door, Iwill come in to hint, and fup with him, and he with me : enter but into thy own Chamber and be fliil, and look into thy own breff and fee whether thou benot daily and hourly refilling the Spirit ofGod that would draw man unto Chriff;didft thou but look into thy own heart, thou fhouldfffind there was never any thought that did ever arife in thee to check or controle thee in thy evil wayes, but that very thought was a light in thee, 'Of thou wouldft have heçded,or regarded it.)And that light alfo did tell thee,that all thy belt athons were but fin ; and that all the wayes thou walkefr' in, there is nothing butfear in them, and death in them, andmifery in them. And thy bell andholieft fervices are an abomination. There is a fpia,it within thee that is 11111 troubling and checking thee, fór every proud, and for every evil thought ; and what is this for ? onely to let thee fee that thou art deadand reprobate to every-good work and all thy deeds arrev`il; and all that thou knoweft, thou kLnoweJI notas thou oughtefi to know : It is to let thee know that thou X art Heb. 12. Efa.2g.r3 Rev: 3.20 2 Cor. 8.2
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