380 GdPi direaions for a Mount Zion, inexpugnable, and unfhaken with the mofl fit- rious incurfions of the floods and tempefts of all worldly troubles, preffures, and perfecutions. Let all thole monftrous and moll abhorred injeftions, filthy temptations, and fiery darts, pointed with the very malice ofhell, ordinarily dice. red to the imagination ofthe belt, bee refolutely repelled by the fhield of faith , and retortedas dung vpon the Tempters face. Let all ungodly oppofitions fromman or devill,or feare_ full diftrufl bee but as fo many proud and fwelling waves, &Ching againD a mighty Rocke ; which the more boifte- roufly they beate upon it, the moreare they broken and tut- ) nedintoa vaine foame and froth. But to defcend with thee more puntlually to fomeparti- culars : tell me truely, thou which haft given thy name to Chrifi in truth; what is it that troubles thee ? what is it that ftilldetaines thine heavy heart, in the chaines and fetters of horrour and fadneffe ; and lockes it up fo long from the en- trance andentertainement of f piritualllightfomeneffe and joy? And if I beenot able to confrontand confound it, by fome well- grounded counter-comfort and Antidote, out of the Oracle oftruth ; if I bee not able to dilcover it tobee a felfe- created erotic : and to diffolve it into an imaginary and groundleffe fancy, by the light ofthe Word ; then walkehea- vily Dill. Onely beleeve the Prophets, and thou (halt prof- per. Thou mull then bee contented to bee counfelled by the faithful! Phyficians of thy foule ; who can Phew unto man hi, uprightnere, and are infirteRed unto the Ktngdomeof hea- ven ; eipecially fetching all their prefcriptions, receits, and counter-poyfons, out ofthe rich Teafurie of the Booke of Life: Thou mull learne ; I. To put a difference betweene nullity of grace, and imperfeCtion ofgrace. Many good foules defire fincerely that their hearts werebroken in pieces , and bledat theroot, for their many and hainous finnes ; grieving much , that they cangrieve nomore : they hungerand thirft for Chas righ-
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