inePool ano famíipZorrli 45 S. Eat if I do find it bad, Iprayyou tell me now what Imuff do tobe pardonedandfaved. Iwill now only tell you thefe Generals, r. Thar you mutt well confider how bad and fad an uncon- verted mans Condition is, that you may not delay to feek for mercy, and to come out of fuch a miferable State. z. That yet you need not Defpair or be Difcou- raged ; For Chrift is a fufficient Saviour and Remedy. And for the firíf, Believe it, Till you Repent and are Converted, you are void of the holy Image of God, and have the Image of the Devil in Ignorance, unbelief, and averfenefs or Enmity to God and Holi- nefs, in Pride, fenfuality, worldlinefs, difobedience, and carnal felfifhnefs : Your heart is againft the holy Laws and wayes of God : You have a flefhly Will and concupifceuce of your own, which is your Idol, and the great Rebel againft God, whichwill Rill be firiving againft his Will, and will drawyou to be ftill pleating it, though it difpleafe God : You will be a flave to the Devil,by your flavery to this fleíhly mind and appe- tite ; and you will fpend your little time in the world, in pleating that (a) fefh, if God convert you not. Youwill never truly Love God and Heaven, nor make Him your end,nor take him for your God ; and fo you will live in Enmity and Rebellion againft him : You are yet unreconciled, unpardoned, unjuftified, un- fandified : All your fins that ever you committed are yet uponyou in their guilt. And, in a word (pardon my plain dealing,) ifyou die as you are, you will be certainly damned ; and as youhave departed from Gods (a) fal.5.2Iy22.Rozn.8.5,6,7,8,9.Eph.2.I?2,3, &c. fS31wr.4.I 2. Grace,
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