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Show not over them; Triumph not over any, but Triumpb and rejoice in the Lmd what thou wilt. · :; • Laflly, You may from hence eafily conclude, how m.uch every co11verted Soul is in point of graiitulle •bliged to be the Lords : The Lord's every fuch Soul is in point ofV11ion; Whether (faith the Apofile) welivt ordyert'earetheLords , but that is not my meaning here; but to be hit in the dedicJtion, rejignation, and giving up of our [elvtt to be the Lords. Should not the Wife love the Husband, live with him, be obedient to him, mind his concerns in the world ? but certainly, {he is the more obliged to 'it by how much (he is more preferred in her Union with him, and more happy in the enjoyment of him? 0 love ye the Lord all ye his S•ints! 0 live in 1\rictell communion with him! 0 never think you can do enough for this He loved, who took you from the brink ofHell when you were wallowing in your blood, when you thought not of God, moved not towards God, and would take no nay at your hands, but faid of your Souls, They ftuU be mine. Infinite are the arguments might be ufed, but it is you know a Subject which often occurreth : and I !hall fpend my next Exercife upon one great Argument; 'Ihough Chrift be ours btfore we be hit, yet we muft firft JtHoRI we art hif, hefure we can ~{_How tftat be i4 ourt, Cant. 2. C•nt. 2. r6, 17 •. My Beloved i4 mine, and I am bi<; He ftcdeth among tbe LiUies. I. N my !all Excrcile I dilcourled concerning the order· of Gods Operation ln the bufincfs of mans Converfion. T he re we gave God the honour of tbe firll work : He maketh Love to us firfl ; he firfl chufeth, and that not only by eternal EleCtion, but having the lirfl and greatel\ work in effectual Vocation ;he is ours, before we are his : but the cafe is other wife concerning the order of our [en[e and i{.nort'ledg ; we do not firfl know that he is ours, but that rt!e are hit, and b,y our knowlcdg that we are hi<, and that he ftedttb amongft the Lillies; we coine to know that he i4 oHrt, or at leal\ we cannot know the former, but at the fame time we mu(t have fome evidence of the latter: Chrifl firfl chuferh the Soul, then the Soul from a free aCl: of it-s-own-, acting-a~ -:rreafonab!e aeature chufeth and accepteth him, ahd the Soul at the fame ri~e may fpeak both together: It. cannot fay, ml Belov.J;. mine before It can fay, I am bif. And hence it followeth, tnat (],e cannot know that Chrifl is hers, before (he knoweth th~t !he i~ his ; and this !he may know, becaufe he feed<th amongft the Lillies. Take the Pro-pofition thus : ' No Soul can be able to fay Chrifl i4 mi11e, brfore it be able to [ay I Prop. I iJm hi<; he fteduh among(l the Lillirr. ' You fee the Spoufe fpeakcth both wilh the fame breath. 1 I will [peak to this Propofition, I. By way of E:xplicatioll, 2. By. fllayofConfirmatiOII. Laflly, By way of Application. By way of Explication, I !hall only !hew you in what fenfe I here underfland Minr, and !tit:. They are both particles offpeech,. by which we fign lfy Pof]effion,' Relation and Interefl. Now, to fay nothing of the Gmeral Rel•tzon whch all creatures have to God there is a double Relation which men and women may hne t'o Chrifl as Med.iatol<r; for as he is Media tour, we may confider him either llf bead oftbe t11hole vijible Church, or of his Eld1 which we call the .CbHrch invijible. ·· '' · ' I. The fir(t I m~y call Profc![i,onal llftd ficclejiaJfical: The fe,o!Td' Spi-litf!ill alid Ke~l. · • ' ' . • 11 .1 " 1 ?• . . ',.. • . The |