no How fhol'ald a Chriflian behave himfelf Zlfe 2, dire. 1, s/íreit. 2. -area. 3. ,iirct't, 4 a Cor.ii.31. Dj rt& 5. Senn. 1 5, jufl; and becaufe jufl, angry ; and becaufe angry ever angry, unlefs Chrifl be thy Peace upon Faith, and a through change. 4. The Blood of Chrifl? though it be an ocean, yet not a drop of it can do thee good, unlefs it turn thee from all thine iniquity Aar 3. z r . all this is but Phyfick in thy pocket. s . The Promifes of the Gofpel ? they are fweet, but poifon to the impenitent ? as bread to a dying man. 6. Upon thy Faith in all this ? whilefl impenitent, all's but notional and imaginary, and fo thy peace and happinefs is but a notion. 2. Therefore be Exhorted to get thy fin off. I (hall heredo two things, r. C;ive you forne direelions bow to put you in the way to efcape this doom. 2. To awaken my feif and you to the feriousufe of them by fome Motives. I. Then if you ask how, [ Anfwer. I. Attend to and comply with the Word and Spirit therein in fummoning thy feif to Gods and thine own Bar of Confcicnce ; fuffer thy feif to be f opr, as a loofe, and fculking malefactor feize and fe- quefler thy feif to hearken to the call and treaty of the Word about thy condition ; the Hue and Cry of the Word is after thee to appre- bend thee. 2. Let Inquifition and diligent fearch be made into the matters be- tween God and thy Soul ; this is the way , Lam. 3. 2o. Let au fearch our mays and turn, etc. this the mifcarriage. per. 8 6. No man confs- dered, and faid what have I done; the first act) to peace with God , is Enquiry, Ef. z t .12. If ye will enquire, Engraire, Return, Come. 3. Declare againíl thy felf, turn Gods faithful Pleader againil thy own Soul ; accuse thy felt in free and particular confetlion whereof thou art guilty, with all the killing Circumftances thou canfl find out. This will prevent the Accufer of the Brethren. 4. Condemn thy fell, charge thy fell with fault, guilt,punithment; Lev. 26.41. So (halt then prevat the Condemnation of the Lord,t hough thou can't not fatisfie the juftice of God in the leafl,yet thou mull glo- rifle it to the utmoll thou cant". 5. Be thorot, and to purpofe , and conflant herein for if thy fenfc of thy condition be not real, thy cure will not be real; there will bend more reality in the application of the Word for the one, than th *re is for the other ; to no more purpofe wilt thou apply the Word to thy feif, than thou applieft thy feif to the Word ; therefore give thy feif to it to dwell upon thy Cafe , hold the object clófe to the fa- glty till 44* fQme iippr,çf op, and thy heart yield. 6, Fly
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