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THey that have received the word of re∣conciliation, are in a very pretious, and comfortable and peaceable condition: they are lovers of God and Christ, they are no more such enemies in their mindes by wicked works, they oppose not the will of God as they did, they resist not the Word of the Gospel,
they sleight not the communion of the spirit of God; they are tender of any thing that is Gods; they count not any thing their own for God; he shall be welcome to all; if he call for their credit, he shall have it; they know they have a spirit of glory resting on them; if he call for their possessions, they leave father, and mother, and brethren, and sisters, and lands, for his Names sake; they know these are not to be compared to the glo∣ry which shall be revealed, and they shall have an hundred fold in this life; if he call for their life, he shall have it; they know, he that will lose his life for his sake, shall finde it.
And being thus reconciled to God, they are friends with every thing of his; every Gospel-Mystery they know they receive; and every thing of his they know not, they wait till he reveal even this unto them: and though they do not receive it, because they know it not yet to come from God, yet they do not reject it, because it comes in the likenesse of his Word, lest they be found fighters against God, and crucifie the Lord of glory in ignorance, like the Jews.
And being thus reconciled to God, they are lovers of all his; they love the brethren;
and if there be a naked disciple, they cloath him; if an hungry disciple, they feed him; if an imprisoned disciple, they visit him: I was naked, and ye cloathed me, &c.
And being thus reconciled, they behold God reconciled to them too; they are now in the way of his love; for now God freely communicates with them, and meets them in Christ; he shines on them in the face of Je∣sus Christ.
Now God and the soul thus reconciled, are in a full enjoyment of each other, as the husband and the spouse, the father and the son; there is no parting rights and pro∣priety; God hath not any thing in Christ, in Heaven, or Earth, but it is theirs: all things are yours, and you are Christs, and Christ is Gods, and every thing of theirs is his.