2 94 Vireftions forgetting and keeping Dy l hoff : When you have thefe therefore, make ufe of them and fix your wavering foul, and take your Qeïïion and Doubt as Refolved, and do not tempt God,by calling him to newAnfvvers again and again, as is he had given you no anfwer before. You will mevet want fore occafion of jealoufie and fears as long as you have Corruption in your heart, and fin in your life,and a Tempter to be troublingyou : But if you will f<ffer any fuch wind to fhcke your Peace and Comforts, you will be alwaies fhaking, and flu&eating as a wave of the Sea. And you muff la- bour to apprehend not only the Uncomfortablenefs, but the Sinfulnefs all() of this courfe. For though the queffioning your own fincerity on every fmall occafion be not near fo great a fin, as the queffion- ingof Gods Mercifu Nature, or the truth of his Promífe, or his Readinefs to ffhew Mercy to thePe- nitent foul, or the Freenefs and fulnefs of the Cove- nant of Grace : yet even this is no contemptible fin. For i . You are doing Satans work, in denyingGods Graces, and accufingyour fellfalfly; and fo pleating the Devil in Ditguieting your feil. 2, You flander Gods Spirit as well as your own foul, in faying, He bath not Renewed. ,and fandified you,whenhe bath. 3 . This will nef:efiitate you to further Unthankful- nefs : for who can In Thankful' for a Mercy that thinks he never received it ? 4. This will (hut your Mouth againi all thofe Praifes ofGod, & that Hea- venly, o'',full Commemoration ofhis great unfpeak- able hove to your which fhould be the bleffed work ofyour life. 5' .This will much abateyour Love to God, & your feníe of the Love ofChrift in dying for yon,nd all the red} ofyour Graces,whileyou are ffill
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