Baxter - BT785 B39 1657

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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