Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 16: will lofe nothing by the cure, and you will get no- thing. If he can turn a poor doubting troubled Chriftian, to be a fecure Antinomian, he bath cured the fmart ofa cur finger by cafting them into a Le- thargy ; or ftupefadion by his opium. To go to Antinomian receipts to cure a troubled foul, is as going to a Witch to cure the body. 3. I would have you fenfibieof Gods goodnefs toyou in thefe very troubles that you have fo long lain under.. Your bleffed Phyfician knew your difeafe, and the temperature ofyour foul. ` Perhaps he faw that ' you were in fome danger ofbeing carriedawaywith ' the Honours, Profits or Pleafures of this world ; ' and would have been entangled in either cove, toufnefs, pride , voluptuoufnefs or force fuch deg. fperate fin : And nowby thefe confiant and extra- ` ordinary apprehenfions of your danger, thefe fins ` have been much kept under, temptations weak- ' ned, and your danger prevented. If you have foundno fuch inclinations in your felf,yet Godmight find them. Had it not been far worfe for you to have lain fo manyyears in pride, fenfuality and for- getfulhefs of God, and utter neglect of the ftate of your foul,then to have lain fo longas youhave done in apprehenfions of your danger ? O love and ad- mire your wife Physician I Little do you know now what he bath been doing for you : Nor shall you ever fully know it in this life : but hereaf- ter you fhall know it , when your fandification, and confolation , and his praifes fhall be per- feced together. 4. If you fhould for the time to come expec`f or defire that God should fet you outof all apprehenfion of danger, you know not
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