46 The .Nllture of Converfion~ 2. chrol1. ·I >. I$.. Fear hath its ufe; but this is not the main Spriag of Motion with a. fanttified heart. , ~hrjft keeps not hi$ Subjects in by force, .but is Kin8 .ofa.willing .people. . 'l;'hey ar.e (through .his grace) freely refolved for h1s_fen51~, :and .do it: out of .choic~, not as fiaves, but as:the SQn or Spoufe,from a SpringofLove, and a Loyal Mind. · In a Word, the Laws of Chriit are the ConvertsLove, Pfal. 1 19 • 15'9, 163, 167. de-fire-, 'lJ· ), 2?, 40. delight, v. 77 1 92,103, ~tr, I~J · an4 conttnual fiudy, v. 99 79· Pfalm r. 2.. . . . ·4 Tlfe !tent ofhis courJe k direCfed to keep ·Gods Sta· tute's, ·Pfal. 1 I 9· 4 , 8,167, 1 f8. 'Tis thedaily care of his life to walk with God. He feeks great things: he hathnoble defigns, though he fall too lliort. He -aims at nothing leis than perfection: he defires it,he reaches after it, he vvouid not reft · in any pitch of grace, tiil he were quite rid of fin andhad perfeCted holinefs, Pbil. 3. I 1, 1z., 13, 14- ~ I-Iere the 'Hypocrites rottennefs maybe difcover- . - ~d. He defires holinefs (as one well) only. as a Bridge to Heaven; and enquires earnefily, what is :~he leaft that will iervehis turn; and ifhe can get .· but [o much as may juft bring him toHeaven, this is ··all he cares for.But the foundConvert defires holi· nefs for holjnefs.fake, P[al. 1 1 9· 97 . Mat. 5'. 6. and , not only for .Heaven's fake. He would,not be.fatis· fied .with fo much asmight fave him frot:n Hell>but defires the highefi: pitch. Yet defires are no.t e– nough. What is thy-way and thy courfe ? Is the drift and f~ope of thy life altered ? Is holinefs thy trade, and religion thy bufinefs? Rom. s. I. Mat. ,,; . l6· Pbil. 1. 20. Jf.not, thou ~rt fhortof found Converiion. ._ . . · AppUcatipn~ . And is this, that we h?-veqefcri~d, the Converfion that is,ofabfolute nec,effit:y~o falva– tion .? Then be informed, x. ·· 1hat ftplit is the gate . - . . .- . .. .- . . .. .. .. . --- . d an
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