3aó VireEiions,for getting and keeping snifters preach more rowfingly then they do , and you would be glad for their fakes when you heard that which might awake them& prick them to the heart. Yea,ifyou had tried how hard a work it is to bt ing worldly formal Hypocrites to fee their Hi- pocrifie, or to come over to Chrift from thecre-- ture, and to be in good earneft in the buhnefs of their falvation, you would be glad to have Preachers fearch them to the quick , and ranfack their heartynd help them againft their affe&ed and obftinate felf-delufions. Befides, you fhould confider that their Cafe is far different form yours : Your difeafe is pain and trouble, they are ftark dead : You have Gods fa- vour and doubt of it they are his enemies and ne- ver fufpeet it : You want comfort , and they want pardon and life . if your difeafe fhould never here be cured, it is but going more fadly to Heaven : But if they be not recovered by Regeneration , they mutt lie for ever in Hell : And fbould wenot then pity them more then you ? and Rudy more for them? and preach more for them ? and rather forger you in a Sermon then them ? fhould you not with us fo to 4 do ? fhould we more regard the comfortingofone, then the laving ofan hundred ? Nay more,we fhould not only negletg them but darrgerouflyhurt them, ifwe fhould preach too much to the cafeof troubled fouls : For you are not fo apt to milapply ,pairagcs of terrour., and to take their portion, as they are apt to apply to themfelves fuch pafragesfor comfort, and take your portion to themfeives, I know fóme'will fay. that it is preaching thrift , and fetting forth Gods Love that will win them heft,. and
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