SPISUTUAL PEACE AND CWORT. 419 minionover you. Are you willing to do this? He commandeth you to take him for your.God, andChrist foryour Redeemer, and stick to him for better and worse, and never forsake him. Are you willing to do this? If you have a stiff, rebellious heart, and will not accept of Christ and, grace, and will rather let go Christ than the world, and will not be persuaded from your known iniquities, but are loath to leave them, and love not to be reformed, and will not set upon those duties as you are able, which God requireth, and you are fullyconvinced of, then are you hard -hearted in the Scripture sense. But if you are glad to have Christ with all your heart, upon the terms that he is offered to you in the gospel, and you do walk daily in the way of duty as you can, and are willing to pray, andwilling to hear and wait on God in his ordinances, and willing to have all God's graces formed within you, and willing to let go your most profitable and sweetest sins, and it is your daily desires, O that I could seek God, anddo his will more faithfully, zealously, and pleasingly than I do ! O that I were rid of this body of sin; these carnal, corrupt, and worldly inclinations ! And that I were as holy as the best of God's saints on earth ! And if when it comes to practice, whether you should obey or no, though some unwillingness to duty, and willingness to sin, be in you, you are offended at it, and the greater bent of your will is for God, and it is but the lesser which is towards sin, and therefore the world and flesh do not lead you captive, and you live not willfully in avoidable sins, nor at all in gross sin ; I say, if it be thus withydu, then you have the blessing of a soft heart, a heart of flesh, a new heart ; for it is a willing, obedient, tractable heart, opposed to ob- stinacy in sin, which Scripture calleth a.soft heart. And then for the passionate part, which consisteth in lively feelingsof sin, misery, mercy, &c., and in weeping for sin, I shall say but this : 1. Many an unsanctified person hath very much of it, which yet are desper- ately hard-hearted sinners. It dependeth far more on the temper of the body, than of the grace in the soul. Women usually can weep easily, (and yet not all,) and children, and old men. Some complexions incline to it, and others not. Many can weep at a passion-sermon, or any moving duty, and yet will not be per- suaded to obedience; these are hard-hearted sinners, for all their tears. 2. Many a tender, godly person cannot weep for sin, part- ly through the temper of their minds, which are morejudicious and solid, and less passionate; but mostly from the temper of their bodies, which dispose them not that way. 3. Deepest sorrows seldom cause tears, but deep thoughts of heart ; as greatest joys seldom cause laughter, but inward pleasure. I will tell you how you shall know whose heart is truly sorrowful for sin, and tender; he that would be at the greatest cost or pains to be rid of sin, or
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