---------------------------~~~~~--1 -The Lord iunercifull:-totbe bumble· , _ ,119 : man, to come home to God, in this manner menti· ·' oned r: when therefore thou finddl: thefe effects' thou maie,(t be fure'thou haft the end·of thefe, and that is enough to fave thee. Suppofe a man carries · about him n deadly 'difeafe, fo as upon the difco· very, and knQwledge ofit he iscontent to part with · alf"he hath to the Phyfitians, and is wary ofmed· . lingwitb any meate that will hurt him and increafe it; ifhe know this that it is deadly, though he hath no fence of paine, it is all one, (and there are fome difeafes-you know, wherein a man feeles not fo much paine, that yet are mortall) it ~ay make him as carefull to ufe the meanes : and fo 'it is here ; if the convietion of the finfulneffi: and deadlindfe of finne worke thof~ difpofirions mentioned in thee, then thou haft the end which mourning tends toJ and that is all one. · . Though thy affeCl:ionsbenot fo ftirred ,confider the promifes are made to ones con1ming in, and .taking Chrift, and beleeving in him: they are not made to the commotion of the affections·: and here .. in the words the promife is made to, humbling thy felfe out of :.t folidity ofiudgement. It is no mat· ter by what meanes you are brought to take hold on Cbrifr, fo you come to him. It is ahone whe– ther I come to my journeys end by land, or by water, on horfe backe or on foote, fo I be·come thither. . If thou findeft thou doe~ the thing-s that an h~mbleman fuould doe, then though thyaffeCtions feeme not to be moved, yet in very deed they are moved and changed : as if thouart fcarefull tote~ I 4 _ _.._. turpe ·. • 2 ./ ,; -· -- ~- - .
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