Spiritual Peace and Comfort. i t9 in their thoughts ? how bold are they in finning ? and how little tendernefs of Confcience and care of obeying have they ? how frequently do they wound confcience, provoke God; and obfcure their Evidence ces ? and how mutable are their Apprehenfons ? and how loon do they lofe that e, flit ante which they once attain ? and uponevery occafion quite lofe the fight of evidences ` yea and Remit their auai Refolutions, and fo lofe much of the Evidence it felf? Is not this the common cafe ofGodly people? O that we could truly deny it : Let their lives be witnefs , let their vifible negleds; worldlinels,pride,impatien cy ofplainReproof, remilnefs of zeal, dulnefs and cuftosnarinefs in duty, firangenefs to God, uowil- lingnels to fecrec Prayer andMeditation, unacquain- tednefs with the Spirits operations and joyes, their unpeaceablenefs one with another, and their too fre- quent blemifhing the glory of their holy Profefiion by the unevennefs of their walking, let all thefe wie- ners, whether the fchool of thrift have not moft children in it : and how fewofthem ever go to the Vnmcrfityofriper knowledge? and how few ofthofe are fit tobegin here the works oftheir Priefily Of- fice, which theymuff live in for ever ? in the high . and joyful! Praifes of God and of the Lamb, who bath Redeemed them by his Blood, and made them Kings and Priefis to God, that they may Reign with him for ever ? I am content to hand to theJudge- ment of all humble feltknowing Chriaians, whether this be not trueofmoiI of themfelves ? and for thofe that deny it, I will fund to the Judgement of their Godlyneighbours, who perhaps know them better then they know thcmfclves. L4 And
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