·t4 The Nature of Converfion: Now, accordingto thisnew light, the man isofa~ nother mind,another judgment,than before hewas : Now God is all with him, he hath none in heaven, nor in earth, like him, P{al. 13. 2. r. Heprefers him trulybefore all theworld : his favour is his life; the light of his countenance is more than corn, or wine, andoil, (thegood that he formerly enquired after, and fet his Beart upon, P(ttl. 4· 6 )7·) Now, let all the worId be fet on one fide, and qod alone on the other: Let-the Harlot put on her paint and gallant– ry, and prefent her felf to the foul (as when Satan · would have tempted our Saviour with her) in all ·the gloryof her Kingdoms, }et theSoul v;ill not fall down andworibip her, but will prefer a naked, yea · a crucified, per ~ ecuted Chrifi before her, Pbilip. 3· 8. 1 Cor. 2. 2. Not but that a hypocrite may co1ne to yield a general affent to t hi ;, that God is the chief good : y€a, the wife! Heathens (fome few of them) haveat laft ftumbled upon this; but there is a dif– ference between the abfolute,and com})arative judg.. . ment of the underfianding. No hypocrite comes fo far, as to lookupon God as the moft defirable and fuitable good to him, and thereup0n toacquiefce in him, This was theConverfs voic~, TheLord u my portion, faith my foul: Wbom have I inheavenbut thee? . and there is none upon et~rth, that I defire befides thee; . God is the firengtb of my heart, andmyporti~n for ever. J?fal. 73. 2 ; , 26. Lam& 3• 2 4· · Secondly,It turns the bya[s of tbeWill;both M to means . t 'tnd end. ·(1.) Tbe intention6f the Wi/1, -h altered, Ezek• . t j6. 20. Jer.,I·33· Efay26. 8.,9. Now the man . hath new ends, and defigns: Now he intends God . a. aboveall, and defires anddefigns nothing inall the . juo world fo much, as that Chrift may be magnified in dow j him, Philip. x. 2o. He accounts himf~lf morehappy Pbil. in this, than inall that the earth could yield, that he – · ·; \ay b~ ferviceable to Chrift, apd bring him ;lory - - . ~ --· • -· -· - •* ... ., • ... • - . . • - ;~
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