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Show · Whitt the dutJ. of J.rotJf.M14, ~e1~ Cbr•ijti.~llt,&c. tiJtH ctrtailfly ~hry are obliged, t• tal<! fame care 'of them[tlves; and that brings me ·to the !aft thing I !hall fpeak. Wherein lier the dl.ty of a rr>eaft Cbrijfian to him[</[, in confideration of the tendtr care which the Lord Cbrijf bath of him l Let me anf wer this in particulars : r. It is certainly his. duty to walft ht<mbly. This is indeed the duty of every Chrifiian, be he weak or {\rong ; they that are highminded confiantly fall into the temptation> of the Devil, Micah 6, 8. Hear 0 man what it g•od, and what God requireth of thee--·' Io walft bum/Jiy with t~y God. It is a Precept to all, Be you cl•ath· e.~ with humiltty: The Apoflle gives us a fuffident reafon for it, asking us, What we have that we have not received.? but certainly it more eminently concerneth the weak, Chriflian to be Co. Chri- 1\ians falling in this, is one of the great mifchiefs in the Church of Chrifi .. Their forgetting that admirable Precept of the Apofile, Rom. 12. 2. I Jay, ( through the gract given t<nto nle) to evrry one that if amongft you, that no man thin~(, of him [elf abovt what be ought to think,; Oh that we could but live up to this Rule! Chrifiians weak in knowledg will think thernfelves firong, and men-weak in judg!l)ent, will judg thernfdves to have more judgment than any others ; h.ence all our 4njrno!ities and fooliCn pallions, for •quarrels ordinarily are not between Abraham and'Lot,but between the btrd{mm relating to them bot~: certainly Humility dqth won-· derfully beco!Jle a weak Chrifiian, and J!IU!l naturally follow from any Chri(liaps confellion of his weakneis. 2. It is the unquefiionable duty of the wraft Chrifli~n, to do Fl>at in him litJ to grow ftronr,, 2 Pet. 3· r8. But grow in grace, and in tbr l(,nowkdg o[o11r Lord and'Sauiour 1e{U1 Ohrijf, to him be .. glory both now and for rver, I told you before, that there is a Specin of weaknefs, that in fame degree, and in forn~ <;:hri(lians is irycurable, that w.as a weak,neft of Jutlgment, proceeqing either fcom a waqt of natural parts, or from that ,great variety of Chri1li4ps apprehenli· ons concerning Propo!itions of truth, w~ich fheweth all but mad-men a ~tecef!ity Qf forbearance 'Yith Brethren of different judgments in the things of God; for none gives it toanother, but ·if he -were well examined would be found himfelf to need it. But ' other weaknei!h are curable : he that is 11>ta~ ill k,~offlledt, l!'ay grow in tb,at, by reading, be~ring , me• dztatmg, . . . .~~espouflt totak._e theFox;1, tlttllmg, fptrttHal conference &· He th ' t . . - in regard of the prevailing 0 f' his fi fi . IS n>ta~ ~~~ Lovt, weak law of his mind he rna ro,., . en tltve appetite above the will do alfoon .; he can ~~t m:~r··:~ he may grow in love, and - body in ft~bjrCiion : in fhort alfot: !'h membl,"• and keep his felf to the ufe of that mea~s whi has e can ut accufiorn himder thereunto. He that is weak i c f. G~d hath prefcribtd in or· will do alfoon as he can but n all m~y grow in that, and highefi reafon in the World we ~~f~~d~ ~tmfelf that it is the without the light of our own t'n aute efiteve what.(;od faith, N h. . n rea on to clear it t ow t ts IS certainly the duty of weak, Ch ift' 0 us. to be llrong, they have a ood fi. ht 1 " tanJ to labour llrength in their arms. t~ey h g ~ fight, they had need of had need of {hength in •their legsa;et·h~ ohg R~ce dto run, they work to do, they had not need b~ fce~le ,"~h ·~: h anhd difficult care of them, .and tbe end of this his ca;e is r;ha at a te~der grow, they wtll never anfwer this love and ca e ~ thhey rntght Lord and Maller unkfs they do co· r o t e11 great with him in order to that blelfed en~~cratJ and W~rk together duty in order to their growth the ; an as a ptece of their Fo~<u. There are fuch perfons and ~~~n ° take tb~ ~0""•. tbdittle "l:ak$ them; but to derc 'b h r. gs, and tt IS theJr duty to • • • 11 rt e t e,e to them a d t hrntt thm and others .duty as to the takin of 1~ 0 open and work of my two next Exercifes if God ple~fe. em, mull be the Cant. 2, , |