386 General! directionsfor a and frees him from everlaSing flames. If any bTcome his Favourite through Chralls mediation, He will make him a King, givehim a Nradtfe, and fet a Crowne oF eternity up- on his head. EarthlyPrinces at their pleafurcs ennoble thofe they love, with Dukedomes, Ma quefdomes,- Earledotnes. What then, doe you thinke, than bee done unto theman, whomthe Kingof Fleauend,:fires, anddelights to honour ? Let us then, I fay, in filch cafes, confider net fo much what is fit for us filly wormer to receive, as for fo great a God to beftow. If weecan oncebt Lag hearts bruifed and broken with the burden of our fins, bleeding and weeping, unto his Mercy-fiate; H. will thinke all the meritorious fufferings of his Sonne ; all the promifes in his Booke ; all thecomforts of his Spirit ; all thepleafures inhis Kingdome little enough for us. If weTooke upon our (elves , finfull wretches, wee might jayRare the extremeft torments,fiercefi fiames,and loweft dungeon inhell, infinitely ratherthanexpea a King- dome. But He loves us freely, Hof:14.4, It is his pleafure to give as a Kingdome Fearenot, littlepeke, faith Chrift ; for st isyour Fathers goodpleafure togive yore the Kingdorne, bk. 12.32. If it be the good pleafure of theKing of Kings, to beftow a Kingdome upon a truely humbled foule, which he makes in the meane timehis Royall Throne hereupon Earth, Ifai.57.15. What can Man or Devill, or any d;ftruftFull heart fay againft it ? And why fhouldect thou, being full an one, be fo unmannerly andunthankefull,nay,fo unnectifarily cruel! to thine owne heavy heart, as not to open the everlafting doore of thy foule by the Key of Faith, to let the King of glory knockingwithhis handofmercy,come in,and crowne it withg9ceand glory, withcomfort and everlailingpeace ? I I. But alas, fayes he, my finnes are more then any mans. Nowwhen I am fearching into the finke of them, I can findeneither banke nor bottome. Vnnumbred fwarmes of geofie impieties and iniquites thorow my whole life ; of abominable impurities andpollutions, which havecontinu- ally defiled my minde, heart and affedions,arrned with feve- rall
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