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there saith Moses to the people, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, for it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days, so say I set your hearts to the word, labour to set your souls to the word ⟨p. 51⟩of God, for it is not a vain word, it is your life and length of your days, it is not talking of Christ, but it is the willing of Christ, from the heart that will obtain Christ and Salvation by him.

there saith Moses to the people, Set your hearts to all the words which I testifie among you this day, for it is not a vaine thing for you because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your dayes, so say I set your hearts to the word, labour to set your soules to the word ⟨p. 51⟩of God, for it is not a vaine word, it is your life and length of your daies, it is not talking of Christ, but it is the willing of Christ, from the heart that will obtaine Christ and Salvation by him.

We have spoken already of the reasonableness of the condition, whosoever will may receive grace, and that freely; and now we come to the universality of it, the work of the Spirit is tendered to every one, whosoever will give way thus unto it grace is set open to all, and proclaimed to all that will take it upon those terms before spoken of, & therefore saith the Text, Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life, the word in the original is, every willing man, there is no man exempted, no man debarred, no man hindered to take grace upon those terms, if he will condescend to Gods conditions, be he what he will be naturally, either in regard of sins and corruptions, or in regard of poverty, or infirmities, whatsoever his natural condition be, yet if he will but agree to Gods conditions, if he will but choose and prize Christ above all other things, •he shall receive him, and grace, and salvation by hi••• so that the doctrine is this, Whosoever in truth doth will to have Christ shall receive him, and salvation by him, the Text doth not say, Whosoever saith Lord, Lord, shall have Christ and grace, but the willing soul, he shall have him, not the taleing man, nor the presuming man, nor the glorying man, but the willing man, so that this is the point, Whosoever in good earnest and in truth will have Christ, shall receive Christ and salvation by him, in the 10. of Luke ver. 5, 6.