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Show T6e .Application of the Dq{/rine. co'lle away. · The Difciples of Chrift without him can do nothing. Saint Paul can do aU things, but it is through him/lrmgthtn; 11g, Eph. +· '3· there's only this dilfer_ence. The Soul as to the receiving of thefirft grace is meerly ~alhve, and the Subject of ope· rati11ggrace. But the firfl grace betng recetved ; we arc fello~workers together with God, and are. the Subjects of ~o-optratmg grace ; flill grace is needlul, qtttck.fmng grace to exctte us, who though nor dead as before, yer are dull and heavy; ftreng~hwtHg grace ro·affift us, who are yet ~eak; co:•peratmggrau wor~rng together with us, as to every thtng th~t rs good. lltve ( farth Pa11l, Gal. 2.) ytt not I, hut Cbri/t liveth"' me, and the lifi Jtlbtcb I non> live in the flefh, I Jivtby rbr f•ith oftbt Son of God. In the moment ol Converfion,grace worktthHpoH Hr,but wtthout ur: In our con verred llate, grace work.! in ur and 19g<th<r with Hs; branch~s tn Chrift bring forth fruit in him, Joh. 15. 2. All your bu!inefs rs to be obedtent to the Heavenly call and motion, not to quench, not to re(ift rhe holy Spirit, by which you are fealed . . This lets us fee what poor Creatures we are, and learns us .humt~tty; what have rP< rt~hicb we have Hot receivrd l what do we Ill whrch we have no.t th~ great alliUance of the Almighty. Po we~ ~ This lets us fee what we are to Jrlrit< upon our moft hvely vrgorous performan· ces : Not unto 111, 0 Lord, not to us, but to thy name be give11 the Glory. It alfo lets us fee tbe dJily need of Prayer, and of an holy Converfotion; our locks arc !haven off where our great llrength lay, and we become as other men, if once our God be departed from us. Cant. Cant. 2. 14, 15. 0 my Dove, rhat art in the clefts of the Roc~, in the {ecret placu of the lf•irs, Itt me jet thy couilleMance, let m< hear thy voicr, for fwet>t i1 thy voice, and thy countr)IJJICt it CCJmtfy. 'Iak.f uJ the Foxo•s, tbe ·little FoxeJ tbatfpoil the Yi11e1 ; for our Vines h11ve tender Grapes. I N the furfoer verfes,th< Spoujrfpakc; (though !he did but repeat the words ol her Bclovrd!) here he fpeaks again himfelf, if'we-fhould fay that !he goes on in her repetition, it makes no dit~ ference at all as to the fenfe, though the repetition of thofe words, .A rife, my Love, my f air one, and come ""'"J, would rather incline us to think that fpeech fin i!hed. However, rhefe are the Beloveds JtJords whether repeated, or fpoken de n•vo.In which are confider- ~~ . . I· The compeUation, 0 my Dave ! tbd art ill tlir clefu of the RocJt, in the fmet plam oft be ftam. 2. The matter ofhu [perch; which is hortatory in three things. 1. Let mt beilrtby voice. 2. Let mt fee thy countenance. 3. Tak.f us the Foxu, the little Foxes. 3· The arguments by which t·he Exhortations are preft, which are annexed to the fever a! Branches of the Exhortation. Let me hear thy floice; for fweet is thy voice, Le me fee thy countmance, for rhy countenance is lovely. T•ke us the Foxes, the li r;k Fox" es,for they Jpoil the Vinu, and our Vinu harJe tmder Grapes, Whatfoever is necelfary for the explication of thefe words, you tirall have under the feveral propo!itions ofDodrine,which I !hall han. die from them, which are thefe: That tbe Spott{e ofChrift is, and ought 18 b~ as a Dovr. Se- !.Prop. condly, · · This Daveis and may be iH the clefts oft he ll:ock., in the fecret placts z. Prop. of the !fairt. Thitdly, 'Ihat ..,ben (be it f" her Retoved'drfimh to fe• her cotmtmance, a11d 3. Prop. counteth 11 comely. Fourthly, Tbat Jr>htn Chri(fs Dove is in the clrftsofthr Rock.., Chriji expd1rth 4• Prop. to he•r htr voice and count' it [A1ett. Of the fir£! of thefe I !hall fay norhing, becaufe I fully opened · v v 2 the |