Spiritual Peace and Comfort. r 2 95 ftill queftioning your Intereft in Gods Love. 6. It will lay fuch a difcouragement on your foul, as will both dcftroy the fweernefs of all Duties to you ( which is a great evil) and thereby make you backward to them, and hearriefs in them : You will have no mind of PrayingiMeditation,or other duties, becaufe all will feem dark toyou and youwill think that every thing makes againft you. 7. You rob all about you of that chearfull encouraging example and perfwafion which they fhould. have from you, and by which you might win many fouls to God And contrarily you are a difcouragement and hinde- rance to then. I could mention many more fin- full aggravations of your denying Gods Graces in you on every fmall infufficient occafion; which me- thinkshould makeyou be very tender of it, ifnot to avoid unneceffary Trouble to your Pelf, yet at leatt to avoid fin a.gainft God: And what 1 have Paid ofEvidences and Affurance, I would have you underftand alfo of your Experien- ces. You mu' _not make Ufe only at the ,prefent of your Experiences, but lay them up for the time to come. Nor mutt you tempt God fo far as toexpect new Experiences upon every new fcruple or doubt of yours, as the Ifrael'te.t expec` ed New Miracles in the Wildernefs,ftill forgeting theOld. i f a iicho- lar fhould in his Studies forget all that he bathRead and Learned, and all the Refolutions of his Doubts which in Rudy hehath attained, and leave his Un- derftandiug ítili as an unwritten Paper, as a Recep- tive of every Mutation and New Apprchenfi.on, and contrary Conceit, as if he had never ftudied the Point before, he will make but a poor proficiency, Y4 and
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