porience~ heartie(t praier$~. moO: piercing perf\vafi- . ons, prefi ·out ofthe word ror that purp0fc, wiJely to r. The ume ef app ly- worke, a.nd watchfully to obfcrve the fea{un when mg h b ' · · , e may, warranta ly and upon good ground, apply unfo the wounded A: foule of his fpirit;ually-(Icke Patient, affured cc;>r.!)fort in the prernifes of life, and that foveraigno blood, which was fpilt for broke~t hearts ; and aifur:e him in the Word oftruth,that all t.hofe ricb compaffions, which lie within the compat1e of ~h<Jt great C<:>venant of cverlafl:ing mercy.. !!Fld love_, fcakd with the painefull fuffi:rings ofthe: Sonne of Goq, b~long unto Him, Which is then, when his troubled he"rt is foundly humbled under Gods ~ighty hand J and brought at length to, firH:, a truly p~11i~~J1t fight, fen~, and hatred of all finne: {ecoJigly, ~ fyneare and tiof;ltiable thirfi after Ielus Chri.(t, and righteoufi1elfe both imputed; and inhi:- r~nt : thirdly, a.n unfained and un-referved refolutioh of {ln l!niverfall New-obedience for the time to _t::ome, &c. Here I had purpoled to have beene large·; but I am prevented by that which bath been laid already: and therefore to avoide repetition, I mufr remit you to the conGderation of thofe Legall and Evangelicall preparations for the entertainement of Chrifi and true co~nfort" w,bich I handled before, which may give fome good diredion and fatisfadion in the Potnt, See Pag. 131. 1. B· to· the end of p~g.I~6. . , ·2-.F.i:ttin> forth at tin)C Yet take notice, that in the mea ne time before fuch => . -fitneff: {;le full,y eff.=Cl:uat~d, I woqid have the Man of 'God ply his Patient \Vith his bell: per(wafions .an~ Proofes, feafonably 'mingled wi~h motives to huf!l~ liation, of the paroon;1b~en.e{fe .ofhis finnes,poJTibtll- - ty of pardon, d a mnablend1~ ·of defpaire, danger of cafe by outward 1nit:tl1 .&c. f\.nd to hold out to tbe eye of the troubfed CO:-Jfd.~pce, as a prize and Lure,3s it, were, th~ fremeff~ of God·s immeafurable. mercy, the
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