' > tTum, or el{e tbey perifh. My heart,would melt to fee their .lioufes on fire abottt their ears, when they were [aft ajleep in their beds; andfh~c_Unot my foul be m9ved witbinme, to fee tbem faUing into endlefs perdition? Lord, have corapaffion, and {ave tbe.m out of the burning : Put forth thy divine power, and the work lt)j/l be done: But M jQr, me, I ca;nnot prevail. · . Chap. IV. Shewing the Marks of the Vnconverted. WHile. we keep aloof in ge~erals, there is little .· fruJt to be expetted : l t ts the hand-fight that does execution. Dttvid is not awaken'dby the Pro– phet's hoveringat adiftance, inparabolical infmua– tions : He is forced to clofe with him, and tell him home, Thou art the man. Fewwill, in words, deny the neceffity ofthenew birth; but they have a [elf– deluding confidence, that the work"is .not now to ·do : And becaufe they know themfelves free from that grofs hypocrifie, thflt doth take up Religion merely for a colour to deceive others, and for the coveringof wicked defigns, they are confident of their fincerity, and fufpect not that more clofehy– pocrifie (where the greateft: danger lies) bywhich a man deceivethhisown foul, 3-am. x. 2.6. But man's deceitful heart is fuch a matchlefs cheat, and felf~ delufion; fo reigning, and fo fatal a dife-afe, 1.hat I know not whether be the greater, the difficulty, or , the difp1icency, or the necefiity of the undeceiving work that I am now upon. Alas! For n1y uncon– vertedhearers, they muft be undeceived, or undone. But how !hall this be effeeted? Hie labor, hoc opus elf. Help, 0 AU·{earching Light! and let tby difcerning eye difcover the rotten foundation of the {elf-deceiver; and .lead me, 0 Lord God) M thou didft thy Prophet, into the 'bambers'~f lmagery 3 · and dig tbrgugb :be · w~TI of/inners - · ·· --. -·- -· -- ~-- ·· be~trts,
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