i8 VireE1ionsforgetting and keeping from your known iniquities but are loth to leave them, and love not to be reformed, and will not let upon thoae duties as you are ablc,whi.ch God requir- ed] and you are fully convinced of then are you Hari-hearted in the Scripture fente. But if you are glad to have (hrift with all your heart upon the terms that he is offered to you in the Gofpel, and you dowalk daily in the way of duty as you can, and are willing to Pray,and willing to hear and wait on God in his Ordinances,and willing to have all Gods Gra- ces formed within you , and willing to let go your profitablelt and fweetelt fins, and it is your daily de- fires, O that I could feek God, and do his will more faithfully. zealouflyand plea(ingly then I do ! O that I were rid of this body of fin ! thefecarnal, corrupt and worldly inclinations, and that I were as holy as the belt of Gods Saincs on earth ! And if when it comes to practice, whether you fhould obey or no though fume unwillingnefs to duty and willingnefs to fin be inyou, you are offended at it , and the greater bent of your Will is for God, and it is but the leffer which is towards fin , and therefore the world and flefh do not lead you captive and you live not wil- fully in avoidable fins, nor at all in grofs fin : I fay, if it be thus with you, then you have the Bleßing of a fofc heart, a heart offlefh, a newheart for it is a Willing obedient tra table heart, oppofed to-obfti- nacy in fin, which Scripture calleth a loft heart. And then for the Pafionate part, which confifleth in live- ly feelings offin, n-iifery, mercy,&c. and in weeping for fin, I (hall fay but this ; i. Many an unfandified perfon bath very muchofir,whichyet are defperately Hard-hearted finners. It depezdeth far more on the temper
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