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Show what it if to jiir up, and to .trYJak..e chrifl· f Ch "(I· when Chrifl is not made to rife up from his ~~~ 0but ~~ll;s in the midfr of the C!olden ~andlejlick.f,;r.d dwells p h' "dfi of a gracious Soul and IS not dlllurbed. You have tn ~cr\ ~:~ two phrafes which fpeak 10 tb.i urpo[l:; ~bey are ,,, bot: Zr h. 3· I7· 'lhe Lord thy G•d in the mtd!f of thee umzgbty, be will /av/he will rti')ce over thee with j•y, he ill rejl m bu Love, b~ ·ll j !)' ~ver thee i..ith finging. :1/me is the motzun of the Sml, an ~~e ;otio~t•ftheotttward malt. And thereis the ref\ of the Soul, and the ref\ of the outward man; Chrifl faith _he wt~l '"'JoiCe over his eo 1e with joy. The Lord is often fet out m Scnpture_, under the pno~on of one drfiring earneflly and pa!llonately , definng ~he ood of ,his people. Here now he is fet ~ut not as one wHh e~ re ddiring, the good and welfare of hts people_; bu_t as one rt' cin over them with joy: Joy is thereft andfatltjaflwn of the s~~- gHe willreft inhif Love, Chrifl isal":a~sfull ofLov~ to Ins 0 )e but there is a time, when he refit m h~ Love; havmg obia; n~d 'his defires,and (atislied hirnfelf concerm~g the~;fo then t time of Chrifls flecp ( implied in the ~ext) . 1s th~ ume ~hen e ·enjoyeth his people, in their commumon w1th htm qutetly and without diilurbance. h LD d J .r. 2 , 0;1• What if it for to ftir ttp, and to awak! t e r eJUI Cbrijl? . d k h L d From hence it appeareth, that to fltr up, an to awa e t e or Chrifl, is to do any thing, that may either make hma de[trt the So111 or which may diflurb the Churcbet or the Sault comrnu· · ' "th him Now it being of the nature of every fin to fepa· ~~~; b~:ween ;he Soul and God , the Spoufe in charging People not to !fir "P nor awa~e her Love, may either be under- Hood. d d h. dft rb 1• !11 refermce to her {elf. That tbey rl'oul o not zng to z u her communion witb Cbrt}t: Or, · 2 • In reference to themfelvn; from her experience of t~e w~~k derful fweetnefs that her Soul enjoyed in her communtc~t f'h Chrif\. She advifeth them, fo many of them, as had talle o ~ ,~ Love ofChrifl. That they would t_ake heed of any ad;, wht t might any timedillurb their fellow!lnp _wnh God, _cfpemlly~t?a they would cake heed of thofe Sins, whiCh from Sc~zptttre. or. rom their experience, they might find to have a fpec.tal '!"~tgnt~o:~ this f weet enjoyment. I find learned Interpreters hmttng . fenfes. I will ther~fore fpeak to both : In the fir I\ the Pro;~fifba~ founds thus. r. T!J4t it if matter of grtat Coucernment to aU people to t•k! hutl of doinr. any aC/ionJ, by whzcb thry may dtjlurb that [rPm rrjl, that txcrUmt Commu11ion which Chri/t hath witb hiJ.ptopl•. 0Hr ftllowJhip, faith Saint !•hn, Ep. I. chap.I.v. 1. it with the Father a ltd the Son !rfiu Chrijl. Now to open this, our Communion with God is either meerly Internal in the exercile of in ward guce, fuch as faith , love,&c. Or External , which is in his Ordinances. As to the tirfl; all the men of the world cannot break it, it lieth in the Sou ls immediate addre!fes to God, converfcs with God: it is not to be broken but by our own voluntary a{t. As to the latter, viz. our r.:tterHdl commm.1ion witb G 1d, it is in his Tf/IJrfoip and Ordina> tcn, which while they keep unpolluted, while they keep clofe to them, God is faid to walk, to be, to dwell in the midll of them. Chrijl i1 at ref/and f'tit'ied while his people worfhip him 1\ridly, and purely in fpirit and truth. Now this rell of Chrill may be di· iturbed two ways : • , I. Either lirfi by the perfons, and that chieRy,either 1. by their wilful Apof/acy, cormption, and deba11cbery in the things of his wor• jhip,which you fhall fee in the whole feries of Scrip~ure continual-ly difqukted God. This was it which made himforf4k! hif Iaber· "aclr in Sh1loh, which made him at lafl forf•k! !J)I Temple •t Hie· r'Hfr.lem\1 As the man is not quiet in a bed defiled, but . is fill 'd Ezek, 9· with jealoufie, and dillurb'd in his conjugal life. So God was ne• ver quiet and at rei\ with his people, that grew corrupt, and did . in his worfhip what he l:ommanded them not. Look throughout all Scripture, where ever you find it, you fhall find God upon the wing from that people and departing from them like a man a-waking out of fleep, and finding an Adulterer in his bed, you thall find, that of all the Commandments God chofe out the fecond to allix his attribute of jealoufie unto, and in all experi-ence you fhalllind, that nothing hath fo difquieted Chrifls ret\ in a place, as failers in his worlhip; ( I hope you underlland me fafe-ly, when I fpeak of difquieting and diflurbing the Lord Jefus; his holy E!fence cannot be diflurbed; I fpeak after the rn<~nner of men as my Text fpeaketh : rhe meaning is, That he is made to change his me1hods, and difpenfations of Jove to methods and difpenfations of wrath. 2. By a Chu,•cbe'Ifi;Uing into Erro•rt, and a gentr'4llo•fone{t in t!Je f"4/1ice of ProftJ[m, Rev. 2. 4· God that refled in his Love to the ClJJircb of Epheft~!, ver. r. He w11lktd In lh~ •id{l oftbe g.UelfCI~tdlt/tkkf, was awaked by the lofs of her fi" u IAvt, |