Spiritual Peace and Comfort: 303 in every duty to be minding molt the faults of others :.and you may much difcern fuch in their prayers in that-they will fill their confeffions moft with other mens fins , and you may feel them all thewhile in the bofom of their neighbours, when you may even feel a fincere man fpeaking his own heart, and moft opening hisown bofom to God.But though fell- applying, and felf-fearching be far the better figs, yet muff not any wife Chriftian do it miftakingly ; for that may breed abundance of very fad efetts. For befides the aforefaid embittering of GodsOrdinances to you, and fodifcouraging you from them, dobut confider what agriefanda fnare you may prove to your Minifter. A grief it muff needs be to himwho knows be fhould not make fad the foul of the innocent , to think that he cannot avoid it without avoiding his duty. When God bath put two feveral Meffages in our mouths, Efa, 3. io, i t. Say to the righteous,it fhall bewell withhim: and fay to the Wicked, it 'hall be ill withhim ; He that believeth fhall be laved ; Is-4e that believeth not (hall be damned, and we fpeak both ; will you take thatas fpoken to you, which is fpoken to theunbeliever and the wicked? Alas,how is it poflible then forus tofor- bear troubling you ? If you will put your head un- der every ftroke that we give againft fin and (inners, how can we help it if you fmart ? what a fad cafe arewe in by fuch mifapplications 1 We have but two Meftages to deliver, and both are ufually loft by,mifapplication. The wicked faith, lam the righ- teous, and therefore it 'hall go wellwith me : the Righ- teous faith, I am thewicked, and therefore it fhallgo ill withme : The Unbeliever faith , x am a Believer, and
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