326 Direaio,zs forgetting and keeping DOUBT IV. a Vt my great fear is,that the life ofgrace is not yet within me, becaufé I am fo void of fpiritual fenfe and feeling : Methinks I am in fpiritual things as Dead as ablock, and my heart as hard ae a Roch or the nether r'LlillBone : grace ù a principle of new Life, and Life is a principle offenle and motion : it calif- etb vigour andeA ivity ; fuch Ihould J have in Duty if 1" had the Life of Grace. Rut Ifèel thegreat curie ofa deadheart Within me: god feems to Withdraw his quickeningSpirit,and tofortke me ; and togive me up to the hardnefs of my heart. If I Were in Covenant with him, I Aould feel the blef nts of the Covenant within me ; The hard heart wouldbe taken out ofmy body, anda heart of fefh, afofe heart Would begiven to me : But I cannot weep one tearfor my fns. I can think on the blood ofChrift, and of my bloody fins that caufed it, and all will not wring one tear frommine eyes : And therefore Ifear that my foul is yet deftitute of the Life ofGrace. ANSWER. r, Soft heart conflleth in two things. i. That the Will be perfwadable,traefable andyield- ing toGod, and pliable tohis will. a. That the Aí- fedions or Paffionsbe fomewhat moved herewithal about fpiritual things. Some degree more or lets of the latter, doth concur with the former; but I have told you that it is the former wherein the heart and life
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