Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 3o, finner comes before God every day I Shall we let fuch go away as they came. without ever a blow to awaken them and Dir their hearts ! when alas, all that ever we can do is too little ! when we preach you into tears and trembling,we preach them afleep! Could we fpeak fwords, it would fcarce make them feel, when you throughmif-application have gone home with anguifh & fears;how few ofall thefe have been pricked at the heart, and faid, What fhal1 we do to be f ived ? Have you no Pity now on filch lupid fouls as thefe ? I fear this one diflemper of yours , that you cannot bear this rowfing preaching, cloth bewray another and greater fin; look to it , I be- leech you ; for I chink I have fpy'dout the caufe of your trouble : Are you not your felf too great a &anger to poor flupid (inners? and come not among them ? or pity themnot as you fhould? and do not yourduty for the laving of their fouls ? but think it belongs not to you but toothers?Do youufe to deal with fervants and neighbours about you , and tell themoffin andmifery, and the remedy, and leek to draw their hearts to Chrift, and bring them to du- ty ? t doubt you do little in this. ( And that is fad untuercifulnefs : ) for if you did, truly you could not choofe but find filch miferable ignorance, finch fenflefnefs and blockifhnefs, fuch hating reproof 2 nd unwillingnefs to be reformed,fuch love of this world, and flavery to the flefb and fo little favour of Chrift, Grace, Heaven and the things of the fpirir, and efpecially fuch an unteachablenefs, intra&able- nefs ( as thorns and briers) and fo great a difficulty of moving them an inch from what they are, that you would have been willing ever after to have Minifitrs
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=