074.....ld, 302 Genera11 direc?ionsfor a on, they are fate enough for falvation ; though, alas 1 they bee meere {hangers , nay , too many times oppofites to the powerand praftife thereof. o. The benefit of a better nature, and a conflitution not foprecipitant and prone to fome corruptions. For inflance : A man hereby may fee others lye remorflefly in the molt a- bominablebeaaly finneof drunkenneffe ; when his heart ri- feth againft fuch fwinifh filth : others tranfportedwith furi- ousand fiery paffions, when as his milder temper knowes no filch rage : others hunting after high roomes , with the haz- zard of their foules, and certaine fhipwracke ofa good con- fcience ; when as his folitary difpofition affects retiredneffe and home. Thus when it is many times the infirmity, impo- tency , or deformity of nature, or at bell, but the naturall moderationofa better complexion, that dif-inclines and dif- ables him from the Agingoffome groffer evils; hee fondly conceives, that it is the power and foveraigntieof grace, whichmakes thedifference betwixt himfelfe and other Eons of Belial, who by natures impetuoufneffe , are more prone and provoked thereunto. x I. The heartleffe effeets of flavifh feare, which force- times will curbe fome kind of men from committing fome notorious finnes , and fpurre them forward to the outward performance of fomeholyduties; yet they, not marking the motives, manner, or end ; not taking to heart atall thegroffe exorbitancy of any of them, but onely eying in the worke wrought ; may cauflefly be too well conceited of themfelves and focoozen their owne foules. But let no true-hearted 2Vd- thaneel heel.* miflake : I know fome ofGods dearth Chil- dren who make confcience of all finne , and to pleafeGod in allthings, yet in darkeneffeoftheir melancholy , or heate oftemptation, may feare all is nought with them; becaufe they feare they doeall for flavifh feare. But their feare, iea- loufies, hearty complaints , and holy defires to the contrary, mayminifter comfort enough, if they will be counfelled, un- till they come out oftemptation. 12. Even thebleffedWordofGod, rnifunderilocd, -and wretchedly
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