90 1 reaions for getting and keeping may be confident ofthe truth ofit. 3. And then if it be thus proved true & faving,you have cause to be confident that it will hold out in adversity alfo, and caufe you to overcome the (hake of tribulation. I thinkmoil men are better in adverfity then in pro. fperity : though I confefs no adverfity is fo (baking, as that which leaves it in a mans choke to come out of it by finning : As for a man in health to be perfe. cuted, and the perfecutor to fay. If thou wilt turn to my fide and way I will give thee thy life and prefer- ment with it : But ficknefs or other fufferings impo fed only byGod, and which only God can take off, are nothing fo thaking. For as the former draws us to please men,that they may deliver us ; fo this draws even the wicked to thinkofpleafing God, that lie may deliver them. i 7.Obferve that when I ask whether thi3 Refolution do already prevaäl,I do not mean any perfeet prevail- ing : nay fin may prevail todraw you to a particular a t ( and how many, I will not undertake to tell you : ) and yet (till Graceand theSpirit do conquer in the main. For youwill fay, that General and Ar- my get the victory whovanquifh the other and win the field, thoughyet perhaps a Troop.. or Regiment maybe routed,andmany slain. I8. When I fpeakofyour overcoming ailgraftfins, as I mean inordinary,not doubting but its too pofii- ble for a believer to commit a gross fin ; fo I confefs that its hard to tell ¡oil which fins are to be cal- led grofs, andwhich infirmities only : or (asLome :fpeak) which is mortal, and which not. And there- fore this Mark bath fome difficulties, as to the right tryingby it (ofwhich more anon.) T;9, Yet
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