310 DireRiórts forgetting and keeping DIRECTION XXIX. 29. Depre you forget not to diitinguifb betveen Caufes of Doubting ofyoúrfins cerity, and caujes of meer Iumiliation, Repentance and iimendment : And do not mile Doubtings and Fears , where God calleth you but to Humiliation Aniendment,and`frefh reEour"fe to c1rft. THis Rule is of fogreat moment toyour peace, that you will have dailyufe for it, and can ne- ver maintain any true fetled peace without the pra- vice ofit. What more common then for poor Chri- ians topour . out a multitude ofcomplaints of their weakneffes, and wants, and rrii(carriages; and never confider all the while that there may be caufeof for- row in there, when yet there is nocaufe ofdoubting of their fincerity. I have (hewed before, that in grofs falls and great backflidings Doubtings will arife. and fametime our fears and jealoufies may not be without caufe; But it is not ordinary infirmities, nor every fin which might have been avoided , that is ¡di caufe of Doubting, Nay, your very humi- liation niuf no further be endeavored then it tends to your Recovery, and to the honouring of mercy for
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