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B08180 Christian purposes and resolutions. D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660. 1611 (1611) STC 24393.3; ESTC S95608 48,765 294

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hath nothing from vs which is not ouer-bought Our earthly bodies cost him the shedding of his most pretious blood our cankered soules the laying downe of his immaculate and spotlesse life and what alas is there in vs poore sinfull wretches that we are which may deserue such an inestimable price Mat. 19.29 Hee giueth vs a hundreth folde more then hee taketh and suffereth himselfe to bee beguild euen with vnequall shares For many times wee giue our youth to Sathan and our age to him who notwithstanding hee should haue both doth take it quietly and like a gentle Creditor is content with any thing from a bad Debter But this conniuence kinde forbearance of his shall not embolden me in any carelesse course All that I haue will I giue vnto him yet thinke that al too little for so great and glorious an inheritance Whatsoeuer I pay nothing can equall it in estimation The whole world in comparison hereof Luke 15 8. is not to be valued no not at the lost groate I will consider how dearly my redeemer bought me and endeauor to render vp my selfe in that regard into his hands as pure and perfect both in mind and body as I can I wil consecrate my selfe vnto the Lorde in the strength and vigour of my yeares and in my flourishing and able daies will I deuote my selfe to the seruice and inuocation of his most holy name Hee that diuideth ill though he offer well cannot but offend LVIII THe waies of the Lorde are in the Whirle-wind and the storme the cloudes are the dust of his feete Bashan and Carmel wast at his rebuke and the floure of Lebanon doth wither The Mountaines retire from before him the hils do me● His Maiestie is great his power wonderfull yet many wayes there are and many meanes to vanquish subdue him At the sight of our dejection Hos 11 8. His heart is turned within him and his repertings are rouled together He must of force reuerse his iudgements and stay to execute the fiercenesse of his intended wrath But when with a zealous and feruent spirit we doe encounter him in prayer then doe we bind him as it were hand and foote that hee cannot stirre Let mee alone saide hee to Moses and giue my fury leaue to wax hot against this people Exo. 32 10. But the Prophet continued his charitable intercession and would not suffer him to goe till he had changed his minde Esay 38 1. Hee had determined the death of Hezikiah by the mouth of Isaiah willed him to put his house in order for hee should not liue but the King hauing notice of this firme arrest turned his face vnto the wall by the vertue of his prayers and teares preuaild so farre that in the end Mat. 15 22. Vixit vicit he both liued and ouercame By this the woman of Canaan did surmount that setled hardnesse whereof our Sauiour did make shewe vnto her Gen. 32 28 In a worde this is that wrestling of the Patriarch in which hee behaued himselfe so valiantly that he bore away the glorious title and renowned name of Israell in token of his victorious triumphall Conquest But this doth maister but his person onely The Saints and Martyrs by their paines and sufferances doe breake into his territories make their station euen within his Confines Himselfe beholdeth it and cryeth out Mat. 11 12. The Kingdome of heauen suffereth violence and the violent take it away by force I will humble my selfe therefore before the Lord my God and vnto him will I ingenuously confesse how sinne and Sathan haue vtterly spoyled me of all spirituall graces and endowmentes and that my conscience onely hath escapt their fury to bring me tydings of the losse With my misery will I excite his mercy and awake his compassion with the vehemency of my owne passions I will fasten on him by deuout and earnest supplications and not let him goe except hee blesse mee With patience wil I arme my selfe against all hardnesse slight both Death and Danger to make my passage to the top of Sion and through the streetes of his imperiall Citty the New Hierusalem FINIS