z 6z VireEions forgetting and keepii. Perhaps you may think I Digrefs from the matter in hand But as long as I (peak but for my Lord Chrift, and for Doing Good, I cannot think that I am quite out of my way. But toreturn nearer to thofe for whole fakes I chieflywrite : This is that fum of my advice : Study with all the underltandingyou have, how to do as much Good while you have time as pofsiblyyou can , and you fha)! find that (without any Popish or Pharisaical felt confidence) to be the moft excellent art for obtaining fpiritual Peace,and a large meafure of comfort from ( hrift. To that end ufe ferioufly and daily to bethink your felf, What way ofexpending your Time and Wealth, and all your Talents, will be moft Com- fortable for you to hear of,and review at Judgement? and take that as the way molt comfortable now. Onelyconfult not with flefh and blood : make not your flefh of your ceunfel in this work : but take it for your enemy: expel its violent unwearied oppo- fition But regard not any of its clamours or repin- ings ò But know, as I Paid before, that your tr ueft fpiritual comforts are a Prize that mutt be won upon the conquest of the flefh. I will only add to this the words of bleffed Dr. Sibs ( a man that was no enemy to Free Grace , nor unjuft Patron of mans Works) in his Preface to his Souls C'onf iE : Chris rs first a Ding of Righteoufnefs, and then of Peace ri'he Righreoufnefs that heworks by h Spirit brings a Peace offfn ification : whereby though we are not freedfront fin, yet We are enabled to combat With it, and toget the vit ary over it. Some Degree of C'0?» fart follows every Good e4E1ion, as heat accompanies re, and as beams and influences f fEase from the Sun: p'rich
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