Spiritual Peace andComfort, 263 0hich is fo true, that very Heathens upon the dif charge of a goodConfcience, havefoundComfort and Peace anfii,erable : this is a Reward before our Reward. Again, fn watchfulnefs and diligence we ¡Goner meet WithComfort, then in idle Complaining. Again, Pag. 44,45. An unemployed life is a burthen to it/elf. god apure all : always Working; always 'Doing: and the nearer our foul comes to god, the more it is in aCli- on, and thefreer from di/quiet. Menexperimentally feel that Comfort in Doing that which belongs unto them, which before they longedfor and Went Without. And in his Preface to the Bruifcd Reed; There is no more Comfort to be expeaedfromChrifl then there is Care to Pleafe him. OtherWife to make him anAbet- ter ofa laWlefs and a loofe life, is to transform him in- to a thanfy; nay into the likenefi of himWhofe. Works he came to deflror, which is the moll deteflable Idolatry ofall. One Way Whereby the Spirit of Chrifl prevailetb inhi_, is to preferve themfromfetch thoughts 2et we fee, People Willframe a Divinity to themfelves, plea f . ing to the flefh , finable to their own ends, which be- ing vain in the fubflance , will prove likeWife vain in the fruit, and a building upon the fands. So far Dr. Sibs. It feems there were Libertines and Anti- nomians then : andwill be as long as there are any carnal unfanaified Profeffors. E1 4 I1.!.,
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