comfortablewalkingwith-God. woont to thineand Phew it felfe with united vigor and more lightfotneneffewithin ; in the greareft dampeofoutwarddif- comforts, and moft confufions abroad. 10. TheChriftian can give found reafons forhis refolution, in the point ofaffurance ; from his converfion , holy con. verfation,love ofthebrethren,univerfall obedience,&c. thole( meanes I mentioned before proper to the Child ofGod. But put thePharifee to proove in this cafe, and perk not beeable to fay fo much as his formal' deluck. Luk. 8.1 1, 12. Sure Iam, all that hee can produce for tt purpofe, being tryedby the TouchfloneofGods Truth, will groove too light and inconfequent. Revile the falfe medixonz and infufficient grounds difcovered before , and you (hall perceive, that none oftit em canpofftbly infcrrea comforta- ble conclufion. 1. The Laodicean longs farre more for gold,then growth in grace ; thinkes himfelfe already rich enough in Religion, and that hee bath attained that very temper which every wife man fhould reit upon, without any more medling that ifhe fhould ftirre forward, he fhould be tooprecife ; if he fhouldgrow any worfe, hee fhould be too prophane ; and therefore concludes, I have neede ofnothing. But the illighte- ned Chriftian, having truely tailed of the affurance ofGods love , is infinitely greedy of growing in grace, of conque- ring corruptions , of neerer communionwith his thrift, of doing his God all the moft glorious fincere fervice hee can poffibly, beforebee goe downe into the pit-, and be feenc no more. His performances, by the grace ofGod, are many, his endeavours moe, but his&fires endleffe, and ever a unfatif- a scalper tibi dir fled with his degree ofwell-doing, his prefent pitch of grace Visce=deset and meafure ofobedience. i& quod nondum Thu,, having pretnifed a difcovery of fpirituall Idfe-deceit, Wherebymany fo over-value thernfelves , in point of their manfifti. Si eater fpirituall eftate, that they conceive theyarc very right, where- pd'e.Tti,s:,7,1ffi,critat as in truth and triall, they are flarke rotten at the root : Their rodP verhse Apo- cafe herein is like that mans , who ly ing faft afl,epe onia"?' 821c"' the edge of (T a fteepe Rocke, dreamer merrily of Crownes, Z King-
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