Motives to Converflon~ w4fl not purged. Jer. I 3.17. 0 Jerufalem, wilttbounot be madeclean? lYben}ball it once be? God dothwait whenyou will be m.ade clean, when you will yield tohis motions) and accept of his offers, and.let him do for and in you, what you cai!not do for your felves. You do not know how tnuch God will do upon your importunity, if you will but be re!Hefs and infiant with him, Lu~. 11. 8. and r 8.;. If God hath pot bound himfelf by exprefs pro– mife to wicked men, togive then1 grace in the dili– geQ~ ufe of the means, yet ·he hath given them a~ bundant encouragement to expeCt it front him, 1if . they feek it earnefrly in his way. His mofl: gra.. · cious nature is abundant encouragement. If a rich and mofi bountiful m~n fhould fee t1lee in n1ifery)' ,ar:d bid thee c~me to his door; would!~ thou not! w1th co.nfidence, expect, at thy comtng, to find tome relief? Thou art not able tobe:iev·e, nor re– pent: God app~int~ t~eeto.ufe fuch and fuch n1ear1s, inorder to thyobtatntng fatth andrepentance: Doth not this argue that God will beftow there upon thee 1 if thou dofl: ply him diligently in prayer, medita– tion, reading., hearing, felf-examination, and the reft of his means? O:herwifeGod fhould but tnock 'his poor creatures, to put them upon thefe felf.de.. · nying endeavours ·' and then, when they have put hard to it, and cnntipue ~1 waiting upon hin1 for grace, deny' them at laPc. Surely ~ if a i\veet natured n1an would not deal thus, much lefs will the 1noft merciful and gracious God. · . I intended to have added Jnany other arguments, but there have fwoln unoer·my hands·; and I hope the judicious Reader will rather ~ look upon the .(';}l 1 th I ' wet&,~t, tn~Jn c nurn::er.
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