comfortable walking withGod. 3" Inch as that, Matth. 12. 43. 2. Pet. 2,20,22. when a man dir- continues, and furceafes from theoutward praftife', perhaps ofall groffe finnes fora time : out ofterrour ; fuddaine fright from fomeSonne ofthunder; or upon triall,whether byhis owne firength, bee bee able to endure, and digeft a divorce from his darling pleafure ; and the holy wayes of thofe who walke towards heaven, without too muchdifcontent- Inuit ( for without too fore a crufh to his carnall heart, he couldbe content to lookeafter a crowne of life, and I wite himnot. ) Or for fome other by-end. But becaufe hisheart was not honefl and good , neither did the Word take an humble roote in it, nor himfelfc refolve upon a fincere, gene- rail and conflant felfe, denial! at firft, bee falls againe upon his former vomit , and againe wallower in the myre ofhis fentiall pleafures, withmore-rage and refolution then before. 5. Nor partial!, where theremay bedan outward reforma- tion in themoil things; but yet there is fill retained a fecret refolved refervation of an impenitent, intire enjoyment of all the delights, and full fweetneffe of the bofome finne: which is utterly incompatible, and cannot poffibly confift with a truely religious and regenerate fate. I fay, my change ( I onely, and infinitely magnifie, admire, and adore the free grace and love ofmyaloft holy , and ever bleffed God for it) was not onelymoral', formal!; mental!, temporarie , or partiall,in the fence I have laid : but uni vcrfall, both in refpec ofthe fubjea and object, as they fay ; without all refervati- ons, exceptions, fenfuall diftindions, Pharifaicall impofture, partialities, hypocrites, felfe-deluton. For my teachers have told nee by the touch-flone of his pure and holy truth : That every true change is of the whole man , from the whole fervice of Satan, to the living God, in fincere obe- dience to his whole Law', in the wholecourfe of our lives : That it is difcernable , and differenced from all partial!, in- fufficient, hollow , halfe-converfions : By I. Integrity of charge : I meane, in all partsand powers of fpirit, foule and body : in the underflanding , judgement, memory, could- ence : in the will, affeaions, defires, thoughts : in theeyes, X 3 earesi4
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