40 ICOe pow ano facní[p 'Zook. bled me, how to judge of your Condition. Ifall this be fo as you have anfwered, I muff needs tell you, that I think that you are yet unconverted and unjuftified, and under the guilt and power of your fins, even in the gall ofbitternefs and bond of iniquity : And that if you should die as you are, without Converfion, you are left for ever : You mull be Made a new Creature, or you are undone. I know this judgement may poßïbly Teem harfh and be difpleafing to you : But it is foolifh to flatter our friends or our felves, when we ftand fo near theworldof light. But withal I tell you i. That your cafe is not re- tnedilefs : And that you may be faved from it, when- ever you are truly willing. 2. And that you are not fo far from Grace and Recovery as many hardened fin- nets are. For I perceive that you deal openly, and are not fodefperately fet againfl Conviction and Converfion as too many are. S. I rhank,youfor dealingplainly withme :But what mallesyou judge fo hardlyofmy cafe ? P. Out ofyour own mouth I pafs my judgement ; for you confefs that it is not yet with you, as it is with all that have the fpirit of Chrift, And ifany man have not the fpirit of Chrift,he is none of his, Rom,8.9. And I will here take the boldnefs to add force ob- fervations of my own, which have lore made me fear, that yet you hive not the fpirit of Chrift, nor true Repentance unto life. For t. I have never perceived that you did ferioufly mind the cafe of your foul. One might be often inyour Company, and hear nothing but of Common worldly things (which may be talk'd of in due time and tneafure : ) not a word of Heaven, nor that favoured of any careof your falvation. And Pure 154e ç:nrtot truly believe and mind and regard fo, great a toattel
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