Part. r. Chap. ro, .Afjli£led Confciences. - ' If Dawbers in this kinde did rightly underfbmd 3: ·~y Scripture. and acknowledge, or had ever bad any experimen~ · tall feeling in thc.ir owtJe Soul~s of {hrijil Rule, and the H(JIJ Gbofts method, which is firft, To convince of jinne; to dej~Cl: and humble in the fight of the. Lord with apprehenl.ion, and fenfe of a moll: abomti"iable and cuded fiate, before: there follow a convitl:ion of the righter;ufneffe of (hrifl to raife up; See lohu r6. 8. or of the neccffity of the worke of the JPirit of hon._ dage, to fit and prepare for {bri.ff and comfort; I fJy then, they would not deale fo ignorantly and overly . in a matter of.fo deare and everlafl:ing importance•. They' would not fo haftily hand over..head, .without . all warrant and wifedome, without any further. fearch, difco~ery or dejeaion, ofter mercy, .pardon, , and all the promifes t0·a man formerly wicked; onlv for fome faipt and enforced confeffion of l.innes, or becati'fe no~r:'geing overtaken by theevillday, H~e how!es upo1{ hu betf, not for any true hatred of finne, but for prefentfinart, ,<lnd expetl:ed horror, de. But would labour .to let the fRirit of bondage have it•s full wqr~e, anti: lay Hi'm open more at large in the true eO, lour o( his skarlet finnes; and not ~tlely c~u[e a bare confeffion of thetn , but' fuch a conviehon which may flop his mouth, that He bath not aword to fpeake, but trembles to fee fuch a finke, Sodom and Hell of fin and abomination in Himfelfe, d-e. Q how oft have I heard many a· poore ignorant foulo in the Day of forrow, being moved to humhle Himfelfo in the fight of the Lord, thllt He might lift Him up; firfi, to get His ·heart broken with the abhorred burden of all His finnes; apd then to bring it thus bleeding to the Thro';le of Grace, that .(hrift might bindeit, up.; 1 fay, bemg thus intreated: To anfwer,'Yes,yes, wtth ·all my heart ; I ;t.m forry for my finncs with all my heart.; I trull: in Iefus Chrifr with all my heart; and thus whatfocver you can ~.ounfell or adv'ife, · · - - He
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