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Show 'the DUIJ cfChrijlltuuHpe~! furejight Df a Whiter. ~arvelt. The feed-t~me w~s Chrills,he Cowed in Teares 1m: rea pes tn Joy. She enters tnto h1s Labours, while your Harvetl-times l•ll unpro_ve thlt by getting -the knowledg of God; increaling your fauh tn Chntl; remember the words of Soloman, Prov. 10, v. 5· He th# gathereth m tbe Harve{t i1 a wifl Son · but be tbat flrrptth in the HJrveft-time iJ a So11th# caufethfh>me: 2 •. Make ufe of your fnd-time ; Summer-time is both an Har. veft-llmeand afted-time, It is a feed-time, the time when the feed of Grace 1f ev~r mull be fown in the Soul ; the Script lire calls it . the feed ~f R1ghteot1fnefs, the Winter is corning, 'tis an ill lime to fow feed tn, we uf~ to fay t~at affii6l:ion is a time of great fpen. d!ngs but l1ttl_e getnngs. It IS a fad thing for the Soul to have that 'fmh and patience to get in a time of aiHi6l:ioo\ , which he will have ~eed enough of to fpend then. The wife-rnanadvifethin the rnornmg to fow your feed;Chrillians! you have all a feed to fow or at _leal! a bu!inc;fs to do to fee the fced,the feed Grace and Rege~ neratzo~ be fown m your Souls: 0 do it in the time of Summer! The Winter corn:s when the ground w11l be too wet or too hard the Soul w11l be wher harde_ned with habitual cutlornar.y !inning; o~ the body too much exerc1fed with affiidions to fow rhe feed of R1ghteoufnefs. I _have told yQu thatl have often feen feed (be~ re fown) cornmg up bravely in an a1Hi6l:ion; 'but 1 never new any teed well fown then. I know God can do it but he doth not ufe when they have Mofu and the Pr•phet1, and' defpife them, to brmg one from the dead, to nuke them to believe. 3. Pr4! that}our Winter m•y not bt too ]harp nor too long. A moderate Winter IS for the advantage of the Corn but if it be too llmp or too long it kills the Corn, or at leal! lndamrnageth it. God hath therefore promifed, that the rod of the rr>ickfd (haU not reji Hpon the lot of the Righteull!, lr/t he put forth biJ hand to rr>ork._iniq•i~;. that he rr>~U not contend for ever, left the Spirit jhou/d fait. Our Saviour fpeak1ng of an evil time, Mattb. 24. 22. faith, e:cce 1 thofe dayJ fho~tld bejhortned, there ll10uld no fle!h be faved • but lor ~hea;ellf~k!, they fhaO be {h nrtned. 0 pray that your w;'nter may "e II bortnbeld ! that God would lay no more upon you than you u1a e a e to bear. Fourthly, Mak! prBvifion for Winter; every good Hu~banrf and goo~ Houfe-wife do it; you will fay what provifion?J anfwer what Ph?v1fion doth a poor man make-for Winter? There are'three t togs that he PJovides, r. An Houfo to bide his head in. · 2. Clo11tlu The DtlfJ ofChriflian.tupM theforejght of a Winter. 2. Clo#thsandjuelto keep him warm. 3• Food total and live upon : Go you and do like wife. . I- Provide your [elves a11 Houfi to hide your head Ill; what hiding place? David tells you where this may be had, Pjal, P· 7· Thou art my hiding place, thou fh•lt prejerve m~ from trouble, thoZ< jhalt encompafi me rr>ith {ongJOf deliverance. Agatn ~~1. '.'9• I I 4• Thou art my hidingpl&ce and my (huld, If. p. v. I. It IS fatd,A man jhaU h• an hiding pl>ce from tbe rr>ind, and ~ covert from th_e 'IempeJ!. This man is he that was Go.i-rnan Chrtft Jefus: He h1des us m the chambers of his fee ret Providence, If. 2 6. 20. The. Prop~et Zephani~h tells you how you fhall get po!fdlion of th1s btdwg place, Zeph. 2. 3· feelt,ye the Lord,aUye meek,_ofthe Earth, n>hzchhave rr>rought his judgments,[tek.. Rt'ghteouj nefs, [eek,. Meek._nefs; peradvm· lure yor• (haU be hid in the day of th• LordJ anger. . A fecond thing which men providt for Wznm, IS C~o•_th~ <lnd ' F11el to keep thmt rr>arm, and to defend them f~orn the mJur.res of winter-weather. A Chriflians garments are hts _graces, Rev. 16. 15. we are bid to put on Chritl, we put on Chnft when we put his Graces on. The Apoflle, Epb. 6. cornpareth them w Armour, the girdle of truth, the bri{t-plate of Righteoufnefi, tbefhzeld ~~ Ja1th, Faith, Patience, Righteoufnefs, Meeknefs, Hope; they w1U keep the Spoufe warm in the Winter. There i~ a garment of JOY and ,Salvation too, but that her beloved mllfi bring her when the fum-lner comes. . 3· A third thing which men provide for Winter l1 foo~ to e~tJt is written that the jH/f fhaU live by .Faith, but the truth _1s; fauh is but the Spol!les Inflrurnent of ~ating the word; efpemlly_ the word of promi[e, is the food that fanh feeds ~pon. By thefe th1~gs men live ( faith Hrz(kj•h) ftudy the prorn1fes, fearch the S:np- · ture for them. Lock them up in your Souls wheo your Wwter comes, that you cannot live upon Ordinances, ( rh<; green and fJe!h fruits of the Churches earth thefe w11l 1\and you 111 Ilea d.) I I had peri!hed in my affii6l:ion,faithDavid,if thy Word had not been .. my delight. . . Lallly; When the Winttr comes, look._.that yo11r r~at doth not dze; your leaves will, the Spoufdn the time of her LJber.ty, and_Pro- rperily, honours God by. outward attendmg upon 1m . Ordman-ces, going with the Multitude, to hear, to pray, to pra1fe. ~ow thefe are but a ChriHians leaves,or at bert but this furnrner-frmt.ltt Winter 1befc will fall off a ChriHian will be llraitned much as r_o · ' .. tlus, , |