This is the way you must enter, and in our praising of it, we may tremble to think, upon this frustration, who will not close with these (so called inconveniences. We have no skill of people closing with Christ, who will not close with me. But Oh, What say ye unto us? What is your reply? Is it not this, 'That neither death nor, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, are things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ Is this your saying, then take away, take him, take on his yoke, ‘Tor his like is easy and his burden light.’
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ISA. xxvi. 20. Come my People, &c.
T H I S is the way that folk undo themselves, and forsake their own mercies that which ought to chase them to God, chases them out from All hypocritical convictions only put them further away from the physician : so it is with testament, which should put folk to their duties, are thereby put from it. When the Lord wishes his glittering sword of justice, then it is drive his own children into his own hand, Come my people, &c. Ye know the last occasion how we divided these words ; ye know also, that before we left the first head, we said, it would be requisite to show' unto you, who it is that cries to Christ, and who it is that comes not: But told you, that it would come more fitly in the Head : yet to make way for it, we proceed forward unto the third thing in the words. And having touched that a little, we return again
