The Life ofFaith. 407 the.chcaoct food and rayment which is fufficicnt to our law- ful ends ; and ufe not our appetites,and fenf, and fantafie to loch delight and fatisfaâion as either increafeth lull, or cor rupteth the mind, and hindereth it from fpiritual duties and delights, byhurtful dele6 ation or diverlion : nor b:flow that upon our fclves, which the poor about us need to fupply their great necefl-ides. This is to be poor infirit ; and this is the life of abtlinence and mortification, which theft fenfual pro- fc(i'ors will not learn. Nay, rather than their throats thall not be pleafed, ifthey be children in their Parents Families, or Servants, they will ¡leal for it, and take that which their Parents and Maecrs (theyknow) do not content to,nor allow them : And they are worfe thieve: than they that flea' far hunger and meet neceifity ; bccau(e they (teal to f atistie their of- mites and carnal luf s ; that they may fare better than their fuperiours would have them. And yet perhaps be really contcientious and religious in many other points, and never humbled for their flcfh!y minds,,their gluttony and thievery cfpecially ifthey fee others fare better than they : and they quiet their confcicnces, as the moll ungodly do, with putting a hanfome name upon theirfin, and calling it, taking, and not ffealing, and eating, and drinking, and not fulnefs of bread, or carnal gulafity. Abundance of filch inftances of mens partia- lity in avoiding fin, I muff omit, bccaufe it is fo boil a work. 6. Yea in the inward exercife ofGraces, there are few-that ufe them cornpleatly, entirely, and in order ; but they neglec`,f one, while they let themfelvcs wholly about the exercife of another ; or perhaps ufe one again(] ano:her. Commonly they let themfelves a great while upon nothing fo much as la- bouring. to affeettheir hearts with forrow for fin, and meld :g- by to weep in their confeffions (with tome endeavours of a new life.) But the Love of God, and the thankful Cede of the mercy of Redemption, and the rejoycing. hopes of endlefs Glory, arc things which they take but little care about : and when they are convincedof the errour of this partiality, they next turn to fome Antinomian whimfic, under the pretence ofvaluing Free Grace; and begin to give over penitent eonfef- fionr, and the care and watchfulne s again#' fin, and diligence its
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