comfortable walkingwithGod. 343 Action, yet it ii exceeding broad. And therefore though Inch as hate to be reformed, efpecially, if theirconfciences be Wk- king andworking, are drawne to a particular and punSuall furvey of themfelves and all their wayes in this pure Criflall, even as a Beare to the flake, a Bankerout to his counting bookc , anElephant to the unmudded water, a foule face to the Looking-glaffe : They are well enough content to heare the Commandements read , reftraining their underflandings onely to the groffe ass , Thou Atilt not kill, &c. and perhaps jailifying themfelves Pharifaically thereabouts; but come to the holy ftrietneffe of Chefs expofition , whofiever looketh on 4 Woman to /aft sifter her, hath committed adultery with her already inhie heart , &c. and it ftrikes full cold to their impure hearts, and caufeth them to cry out againfl the menof God, Whydoe you torment us beforeour times ? I fay, though it bee thus with the unregenerate, by reafonof their guilcie and gauled confciences ; yet let it be thy delight, whoart bleffed with an everlafting impregnable proteftion, by theblood and merit of Iefus Chrifi, from the curie and rigour of the Law, to penile thy felEe punetually by this heavenly Looking-glaffe , for the difcoverie of thy de- fees and aberrations , and to dive with fearching and fed ou s meditation into this adoreddepth of perfeCtion and pu- ritie , to fee how farre thou comeft fhort : and then thou flak finde infinite more caufe to preffe hard towards the marke , then to Tooke upon that which isbehind, or proud- ly to prize any thing that is pail. Onely I advife , when thou fetft thy Idle thus folemnely to ripup thyconfcience,and ran- facke thy heart to thehate , tobring it downeand into the daft , for increafe of humiliation and lowlineffe in thine owne eye : as thouhold& out in theone hand the cleare Criflall of Gods pure Law , to difccwer the crookedneffe of thyvile naturall difpofition , thevillanies and skarlet abo- minations of thine unregenerate time , the daily fpots and flames which light upon thy foule, &c. hold out alfo in the other hand , or rather layhold uponChrill Iefus by theband of faith, hanging, bleeding, anddying upon theCrate, for 2 3 theic
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