Excerpt from Christ Crucified, or the Marrow of the Gospel, Vol. 1: Evidently Set Forth in LXXII Sermons on the Whole 53rd Chapter of IsaiahT 18 one of the greate practical debates and com t'eils betwixt. God and his own people, who are privileged with a fpecial intereft in him, and which' they are naturally inclined longeft to keep up, and are molt unwilling to let fall, fuz'z. Whether he guide and govern them, and mark out their lot to them, while they fojourn here in the world, as he in his own wifdom {hall think fit; having (as it were) a blank Fubmiffion put by them into his hand, to be filled up with what kind and quality, with what meafure and quantity, and with what continuance and duration of troubles, trials, and afictions, himfelf pleafeth. 9 Or, whether he fhould, as to fome things at lea, confult their will and pleafure, and as it were take their ad vice, and allow them a liberty to prefcribe to him, how he {hould guide and difpofe of them? And in deed to be here denied to their own will, and abfo lutely fubmit to the will of God, is one of the higheft and molt difficult practicable points of felf-denial. (to which notwithfianding all the difciples and fol.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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