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ves to be. And 1 believe tiie Lord will oently bless our laboum herein, if wc luhour getber in the Loid, waiting for hia Holy Spirit^, and wutf^hing after the 5igD5 ^f hi» coming. Y* brethren, and let mc add, . < Secondly, Thjtl from tlii^ comelh our own littltf^ profit and Miiall |jn>gri?vs in tht' inward work ufj-j tlie Holy Spirit: becausir, as we bare taught you.^ ofttimcB, until Mre can dUcem the outward, inward we never »liall discern. There must an outward, before Uicre is an inward : a visibli before there is a spiritual. A world created tl was before Adam was fcrmcd to sag itall rcflectedl in ht& own understanding ; a Saviour revealed jji;j piomise, in type, in priestliood, in royally, iu fle&h, before the Spirit could work any frail of. righteousnefifl in the souK And it is in the act of.i faithfully beholding, deeply meditating, and re- ligiously observing tbeee the ordinances of ih visible tentple, that we are iniiiftrunned iniu iliai likeness of Ilinip after whom, and to shew forth) whom, they vt*ere all fashioned. So, until v«i study aud underataod. and can pve someaccooni of, the Lord's dealings wi!h his chuieh, bis cbooi- iDg licrof his own tree grace, lu» loiding aodi dfuidingher in righleou*n€^s, after .she iuith beetii &iiriyaet out by hi:« mighty power; kisafterwardi I VI^ OR THB TEN THI&Et. 1I9& l«ftHtiig lirr jiito tr>niptatif>n» in ordi^r Ut reveal the wick^dnesfi th&t she hut ti (xintmcU'cl by hvr un- belief aad di<ob€dience, bis chaBtesiog her with the rod of his fatherly wrath, his; hedging up her way that ahe mitrht not utterly ruu into >*ild apostasy ; his rejection of her, his cuttiog of her wholly otTfrom being his church : and after loogt longageft^ his returniDg to ht-r milh the warmth ^ of hU fintt love, that none of his pmmises to his cho«en oncsmiffht fail ; — I say. until ali ihcsc his dealings with the outward visible church be under- stood, meditated oiu discoursed cf, and dchght- fully cntcrtamcd in discourse, it willucvcr happen that we nhall f)e able to bear his dealings v/Uh us est tiidtviduuls, of which the former is but the out* ward IcBSon, written lar^je and W^pble, that " the way*farinc man, tliou^'h a fool, may not err there* in/' if, notbeing: able to read this, we think to read thcevcntsof ourown experience; if, not being able to distmg:uish the dc&bn{;fi of God by his church and Ihe world, we think lo he ahle to diKiinguisb the dealings of his Holy Spirit with the spiritiial and the natur;il man within, we do utterly err^ not knowin^^ (be S