Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 3 3 i that did not before. 6. Yét do I not deny but that our want of Tears and tender affections and heart- meitings; are our fins : For my part I fee exceed- ing caufe to bewail it greatly in my felf, that my foul is not railed to a higher pitthof tender fenlìbility of all fpiritual things then it is : and I doubt not but it fhould be the matter of our daily confeffion and complaint to God, that our hearts are fo dull and little affected with his facred Truths, and our own fins : but this is the fcope of all mySpeech, Why do not you diftinguifh between Matter of Sorrow and Matter of Doubting ? No queftion but you Mould lament your duiners and ftupiidity, and ufe all Gods means for the quickning of your Affedi. ores, and to get the molt lively frame of foul : but mutt it caufe you co doubt of your fincerity when you cannot obtain this ? Then will you never have a felled Peace or Affurance for many days together, for ought I know. I would ask youbut this : Whe- ther you are willing or unwillingof all that hard- nefs infenfiblenefs and dulnefs which you complian of ? If you are willing of it , what makesyou com- plain ofit ? If you are unwilling, it feemsyour Will is fo far found ; and it is theWill that is the feat of theLife of Grace which we mutt try by : And was not `Pails Cafe the fame with yours ? Rom. 7. 19. When he faith , The Good which I Would do, I dry not : and , When I Would do Good , Evil is prefect With me. I know Paul fpeaks not of grofs fins, but ordinary Infirmities : and I have told you before, that theLivelinefs and Senfibilityof the Pafions or Affedions, is a thing that the Will, though fandi- fied, cannot fully command or excite at its pleafure. A fandi-
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