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Besides this, add, &c. Thus much for the addiction, now to the addition. Wherein we find a concession, an accession, that he requires; Add. You have done something, yet there is a Praeterea, a Besides. Profectionem agnosco, Perfectionem requiro: I yield a beginning, I ask a proceeding. Sit not down with your Satis. knowledge you have, and faith you have; yet there's an Adhaec, Besides these.^d Leaving the principles, let us go on to perfection. Nihil praesumitur actum, dumb superest aliquid ad agendum. We cannot say, that work is finished, whereof any part remains to be done. None were fit to fight the battles of God, but they that lapped water out of their hands; (like the dogs of Nilus for fear of the Crocodiles) still going forward, Judg. 7.5. As God himself is said to drink, De torrente in via; of the brook in the way, Psal. 110.7. this man lifts up his head, and goes on. Christ hath sprinkled all the way between heaven and earth with his blood, and hath made it a^e living way: like good hounds, let us trace him by the foot, and run^f after him in the smell of his garments; not resting till we rest with our Master. ⟨p. 104⟩Thou hast done many good works, assurest thy self of some growth; yet forget that is behind, and reach forth unto the things before, Phil. 9.13. Non sufficit Christum sequi, sed c•nsequi: there is still a besides. ^gThey go from strength to strength, till every one appear before God in Zion. When thy soul hath tasted some crumbs that fall from thy masters table, some drop of blood that ran from thy Lords side; yet still think of a Praeterea, somewhat besides. Bede observes on Num. 33.29. They went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah: that Mithcah signifies sweetness, and Hashmonah swiftness. Mithcah and Hashmonah, sweetness and swiftness must be joined together. They that in Mithcah have tasted of the Lord sweetness, will remove to Hashmonah, come toward him with swiftness.