Part ·t.Chap. It. .Af.ftiCled ConfcieNoer. favottr unto us. But now a Cafi:-.away and Alien thus But theotilerdoesnoc; legally terrified, and. under wrath for'£inne, is never wont to ccme to thts earnefindfe of care, eagerneife of refolution, fl:edfafl:neffe ofendeavuur, . willingndlc upon any term_y-s to aband~n utterly all His o_ld waies, and to embrace new, fl:nel: and holy courfes. Thde things appeare unto Him terrible Puritanicall, and int0lerable. He commonly in ft1ch cafes, bath recourfe fereafe & remedy to worldly comforts, and the arme o£ flefh. Hee labours to relieve his he:lvy heart, by a !1:rong and ferious cafl:ing his rninde, and nofl:ling his conceit upon his riches, gold,greatneffe,great friends, credit amongil: Men,& 1uch other tranfitory delights, & f.1ding Howers of Hts fooles Paradife. For He is at a Point, & refolute with a fenfuall impenit~nt obfiinacy ,not to pafs forward thorow the Pangs of the Newbirth bv repentance and fancrification, into the holy Trade of new·obedience : lefl: Hee i11ould,(as out of a foolilli and phrantick bafendfe,He is apt to feare) be engaged and c:nchained,as it were, to too much fl:riCl:- ,. neffe, precifendfe, holinetfe oflife, communion with Gods people, and oppofition to good fellowfhip. • 2. Hee,that is favingly-wounded with Legall ter- , rqur,_is wont in cold bl'?od, & being fomething come ~.It!ove.srbe.Minifiu to Htmfelfe, to entertame the very fame conceit (or who terrified 1r. rather mingled with a great deale more reverence affeCl:ionatendfe and love, as farre as the life ofan im: mortall Soule dorh furpafie in dearene{fe and excellency the cure ofa fraile and earthly body) ofthat Man of God, which by a right managing the edge of his fpirituall fword, bath pierced his heart, fcorched his confcience, and bruifed his fpirit; I fay, the fame in proportion, which a wife and t~ankrull Patient would have ofthat faithfull Surgeon, which ha,th feafonably and th~rowly lan~ed foinedeepe and dangerous Sore, w;luch otherwife would have beene his death. Vpon thefearch and dj!Covery, 'Hee clearely. , Sa · !C~s
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