·~-·-~--·--------- - -- ---------------"'--- !61 InftruUigns for a right &omforting SeCl:. ~· ---·-···------ ---- --· --·- ·--- ------ . H~ cloth it with all His heart : whereas alas ! Poore heart, as yet, His underfranding is as darke, as darkene!lc i-t felfe, in refpect of any, I fay not onely, faving knowledge,but almoft of any knowledo-e at-ldl;, and his heart in re{ped: of any tru~ remorfu, as har\,i as a Rocke of flint. Now t-hofe unskilfull Phyfttions of the Souk, who in this and the like cafes, will needs without any rnord adoe, without any further illightning or labour, threape mercy and comfort upon u ln his Expo{; upo~ them, are like thofefoolifo foepheard.t, as u cMarhury Pfa!. p.pag-r. calls them, wh(J when they want skj_ll to h~lpe theirpoore foeepe out of thrt d1tch~ are driven to pia] themiferable C(Jmfortm·, and tot-a~ fame other,indire"tf C!lurfe (as ma• ny ufe to doe in fuch cafcs). to:cut the fheepes throat in ttme, to mak$ him ManNneate, left itfoould he [~id, He died in a [)itch. They are Defolat()rs, not Confolatorr, as Aujfin fometimes calls rherrr : Not found Comfor· ters, but true ('ut-throates. . _ Befides that wh1ch I have faid before, of the pre- ·· cedencyofthe working of the Law, and oftbe fpirit_ of bondage,. to make way for Chrifr; let mefurthe~ teU you upon this occafl on., that it ma:v,appeare, that · much more is to bee d·one herein, thea' is ordtriarily imagined, before comfort may upon good ground~ ·and- feafonabl y be applied to the Confcience awake~, what an excellent Divine;·both for depth of learnjng, and height of holinefle, del~vered fomewhere in this Point to" this purpofe. ,; · 4:Rea!On. No man muft think.._th;s flrange, that God dealeth with God terrifi'Js men, men after this ftran'le manner: as it were to k.!P them, hefor-e He mRk! them alive; to let them p~tj[e through, or hy; as it''Wfre, the gatu of Hell, to HeAven; to fuffir ti!Je fpirit of bondage-<to put them.int• afeare, into afbs-- ~ng, andtremhling, &c. For He filjfers th".(e thfSt ~tre . lih, to· be terrified with this foare: I . Y.nref~Cl"~bisown 1. Firft,,in reJPttf of His owne !f.lory; . For tvt mttg• glory tu magmfie. nifJing botli of His jHjfke, ami of Hit rmrCJ: · - - · · z,He
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