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9. If we use what violence we are ¹able, God will help us, Phil 2. 12.. It is God who worketh in you both to will and to do. The Spirit helps us in prayer, and so proportionably in all other duties of Religion, Rom. 8. 26. The Promise encourageth, and the Spirit enableth. In all earthly Races a •an runs in his own strength; but in the Race to Heaven ⟨p. 142⟩we have the Spirit of God helping us; he not only gives us the Crown, when we have done running; but he gives us legs to run; he gives exciting and assisting grace; the Spirit of God helping, makes our work easy. If another helps to carry a burden, it is less difficult. If the Lodestone draw the Iron, it is not hard for the Iron to move. If the Spirit of God, as a divine Lodestone, draw and move the heart in obedience; now the work goes on with more facility.

9. If we use what violence we are ¹able, God will help us, Phil 2. 12.. It is God who worketh in you both to will and to do. The Spirit helps us in prayer, and so proportionably in all other duties of Religion, Rom. 8. 26. The Promise encourageth, and the Spirit enableth. In all earthly Races a •an runs in his own strength; but in the Race to Heaven ⟨p. 142⟩we have the Spirit of God helping us; he not only gives us the Crown, when we have done running; but he gives us legs to run; he gives exciting and assisting grace; the Spirit of God helping, makes our work easie. If another helps to carry a burden, it is less difficult. If the Loadstone draw the Iron, it is not hard for the Iron to move. If the Spirit of God, as a divine Loadstone, draw and move the heart in obedience; now the work goes on with more facility.

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