Splocitual Peace and Comfort. 2:3 5- lingyouwould be able to do much, and God would ftrengthen you. Cannot yon refill Pride, V rorldli- ncf3 and Senfuality ifyou be Willing ? Cannot you forbear molt ofthe a8ual fins you comrni.t, and per- form time duties that you omit. if you be Willing ? ( tho.igh not fo well as you would perform them ? ) Yea let me fay this much, left I endanger you by fparing you Many a rrmiferable hypocrite Both live in trouble of mind and complaining, and after all pe- rifh for their wilful difobedience. Did not the rich young man go far before he would break offwith Christ? and when he did leave him, he went away forrowful. And what was the caufe of his farrow ? Why the matter was, that he could not be faved without felling all,and giving it to the poor, when he had great Poffeffions. It was not that he could not be rid ofhis fn : but that he could not have Chrift and He ven without forfaking the world. This is the cafe of unfanc`lified perfons that are enlightened to fee the need of Chrift, but. are not weaned from wordîy profits, honours and plcafares ; they are perhaps troubled in 'mind,' ( and I cannot blame them) but it is not that they cannot leave finning,but that they cannot have Heaven without leaving their delights and contentments on earth. Sin as fin they would willingly leave :For no man can love evil as evil. But their flefhly profits, honours and pleafures they will not leave ; and there is the flop : and this is the caufe oftheir farrows and fears, For their_own judgement.cries out againft them, He that loveth the World, the love ofthe Father is riot in Tara Ifye live after thefie/hye{hall die. (jodreî(feth the proud. This is the voice, of their informed underftandings And
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