2.32. Dire ions for (getting and keeping minds left : and break of your fin and your terrours together. In thefe words I tell you what mutt be done for your cure ; and I warnyou of two fore mi[lakes of many lad Chriftians hereabouts. The cure lieth in breaking offfin, to the utmoft of your power. This is the Achan that difquieteth all. It is Gods great mercy that he difquieteth you in finning, and gives you not over to fo deep a (umber, and peace in fin , as might hinder your repentance and re- formation. Thedangerous miftakes here are thefe two. i. Some do as the Lapwing, cry louden when they are furthelt from the neft : and complainof an aking tooth , when the difeafe is in the head or heart. They cry out,0 I have fuch wandring thoughts inprayer, and sucha badmemory, andfohard a heart that I cannot Weepfor fin ; or fuck doubts and fears, andfo littlefenfe of the Love ofClod, that I doubt I have no trueGrace : When they fhould rather fay, .1 havefo proud a heart, that God is fain by thefe fad means tohumble me : fam fo high in nay own eyes, fo wife in my on conceit,and fo tender of my oWn esteem end credit, that God isfain to make me bafe in my own eyes, and to abhorr my felf. 1 am fo Worldly and in love With earth, that it draws away nsy thoughtsfrom God, drift my love, and (pods all my duties. I amfo fenfual that I venture f ooner to difpleafe my God, then pryflesh; l have fo littlecompufun on the infirmities of neighbours and[avant!, andother brethren, and deal locenforioufly ; churlifhly and unmercifully With them, that God isfain tohide his mercy from nee, Ñnd 'peak tome as in anger, andvex me a6 infore dfplearure. I atm
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