confinable walking.with GOd. 34Y a finke, a Sodorne, a very hell of all filth and impuritie ; of all corruptionand crookedneffe,even a little Divell for darke- mfr.: and damnation : that thouwofully loft and rnif-fpentft many yeeres, perhaps the beft of thy time, ftrengthofyouth, flowre ofthy age in Satans fervice , and upon thy owne abo- minable lofts : That now upon thy converfion , the meere workeof Gods free grace, thoubeinghonouredwith part in Chrifts Paffion, with the prefence ofthe bleffed Spirit dwel- ling in thee, with the higheft advancement of being Gods Favourite, the dearely belovedof his foisle ; yet the bell Sab- z bath that thou paffeft over, the holieft dutie that thouper, formeft , is diflained and diftempered with fo many, imper- feaions,diftraftions, frailties, and failings : That while thou yet inhabiteft a houfe of fiefh , thou haft inherent in thy bowels , fecret feeds, and inbred inclinations to all finne, (Bleffe the fan6lifyingSpirit for thy priviledge and preferva- tion ) even to Atheifme, felfe-murder, Sodomy, defpairing ofGods mercy, familiaritiewith wicked fpirits,finneagainft theholy Ghoft , &c. That whereas thoufands about thee goe on in their finnes, andperifh eevrlaftingly , thy felfe, it may bee before thy Change, worfe thenmoft of them ; yet now being fanetified , thou mayeft bee allured, thy name was writ in Heaven , from all eternitie ; and therefore from everlafting thou layeft in the bofome of Gods love, and from the fame everlafting hadft theLord refna, fet apart to flied his blood in the fulneffe of time , for the falvation of thy foule ; and have patience but a little and everldling re- frain shall come from the prefence of the Lord : thou (halt thine as the brightneffe of the firmament for ever and ever. And in all this who made thee to differ ? Thou waft framedof the fame mould , made , as it were , of the fame cloth, onely the fheares going betweene, with thofe that perifh : It was onely Gods free grace , the good pleafitre of hid will. Thefe and the like confiderations laide together, should infinitely rather moove thee with all humble re- verence to adore the bottomleffc depth of Gods free Love unto thee A then conceitedly to magnifie thy felfe Z 4 above
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