It may be it is true,1 may be not, yet do thou venture as those, Joel 2. who knows but the Lord may return? It is true, God hath elected but few, and so the Son hath shed his blood, and dyed but for a few, yet this is no excuse for thee, to lie down and say, what should I seek out of my self for succour? Thou must in this case venture and try, as many men amongst us do now, who hearing of one good living fallen, twenty of them will go and seek for it, although they know only one shall have it. Therefore say as those Lepers in Samaria; if I stay here in my sins, I die: if I go out to the Camp of the Syrians, we may live, we can but die however: if I go out of Christ, I may get mercy, how ever I can but dye, and it is better to dye at Christs feet, than in thine own puddle. Content not your selves therefore with your bare reformation and amending your lives, this is but to cross the debt in thine own book, it remaineth uncancelled in the Creditors book still: but go, take, offer up this eternal sacrifice before the ⟨p. 119⟩eyes of God the Father, and cry guilty at his bar, and look for mercy from him; sigh under thy bondage, that as Moses was sent unto the Israelites, so may Christ be sent into thy soul. Rest not therefore in the sight or sense of a helpless condition; saying, I cannot help my self unless Christ doth: sigh unto the Lord Jesus in Heaven for succour, and admire the Lord for ever, that when there was no help, and when he might have raised out of the stones children to praise him; yet he should send his Son out of his bosom to save thee. So much for this particular; The fifth Divine Principle follows to be handled.
It may be it is true,1 may be not, yet doe thou venture as those, Ioel 2. who knowes but the Lord may returne? It is true, God hath elected but few, and so the Sonne hath shed his bloud, and dyed but for a few, yet this is no excuse for thee, to lie downe and say, what should I seeke out of my selfe for succour? Thou must in this case venture and try, as many men amongst us do now, who hearing of one good living fallen, twenty of them will goe and seeke for it, although they know onely one shall have it. Therefore say as those Lepers in Samaria; if I stay here in my sinnes, I die: if I goe out to the Campe of the Syrians, wee may live, wee can but die however: if I goe out of Christ, I may get mercy, how ever I can but dye, and it is better to dye at Christs feete, than in thine owne puddle. Content not your selves therefore with your bare reformation and amending your lives, this is but to crosse the debt in thine owne booke, it remaineth uncancelled in the Creditors booke still: but goe, take, offer up this eternall sacrifice before the ⟨p. 119⟩eyes of God the Father, and cry guilty at his barre, and looke for mercy from him; sigh under thy bondage, that as Moses was sent unto the Israelites, so may Christ be sent into thy soule. Rest not therefore in the sight or sense of a helplesse condition; saying, I cannot helpe my selfe unlesse Christ doth: sigh unto the Lord Jesus in Heaven for succour, and admire the Lord for ever, that when there was no helpe, and when he might have raised out of the stones children to praise him; yet he should send his Sonne out of his bosome to save thee. So much for this particular; The fifth Divine Principle followes to be handled.
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