Spiritual Peace and Cònfort. i tá to be downright and fixed , with many fouls that long delayed and iiuduated in tarìrefo1vcdnefs, end lay under mecr iáneffedual Convictions. 061. But this runs on your own grounds : that favingGrace and common Grace do differ but in degrees. e.- n(w., I think moft will confefs, that as tó the As ofGrace, and that is it that we are now en- quiring after ; and that is all themeans that we have of,dífcerning the Habits : Yet remember that I Rill tell you, That there id a giecifrcal ;Moral difference, thoughgroundedbut in agradual Natural difference; Yea, and that one grain of the Spirits working which turns the will in a prevalent meafure for Chriit (to gerber with the illuminationneceffary thereto) de- ferves all thofe elogies and high titles that are given it in the Word;fo great a change loth it make in the foul! Well may it be called,The keVo Creature:Born ofthe Spirit : The Worktnanftiip of God : The new Life: yea,The Image of j od,and The Divine Nature (if that text be not meant of the divine nature in Chritt which we are Relatively made partaken of in our Union with him.) When you are weighing' things in the ballance,youmay addgrain after grain, and it makes no turning or motion at all,till you eomr to the very laft grain, and then fuddenly that end which was downward is turned upward. Whenyou Rand at a lofs between twohighwayes, not knowing which way to go, as long as you are deliberate, you nand íäl1 : All the reafons that come into your mind donot ftir you But the laft Reafon whichRefolves you$etteth you in motion. So is it in the chane of a: linnets heart & life:He is not changed (hilt pre' towards
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