2.$6 Inftrutfiensfor aright comforting SeCl:.z. thy bofome; Thou art certainely bleffi:d. If that forrowfull foule of thine doth renounce from the very heart.root, with fpeciall difi:afie and detefl:ation all manner of finne; infatiably thirfr nfter rightcoufnef[e; unfainedly refolve~ for the lhort remainder ofa few and evill dayes, to bend it felfe towards heaven in all New-obedience; I fay, if this be fincerely, the holy difpofition and -refolution of thine heavy heart, notwithftanding all thy prefent terrour and trouble ofmind,Thou art truly and everlafl:ingly happy. One:. · ly take notice ( lefl: my minifrring of mercy bee mi· fiaken, ·or thy conceiving of comfort mif-carry) that the heart of m1111 u dectitfu!l above all things. A bot• tomleffe depth it i..s of faHhoods, diffemblings, hypo- (;rifies, , an endle{fe Maze of windings; turnings, _ and hidden paffiges. No eyQ can fearch and fee its center a,n<~ fecrets, but that All feeing One alone, which is ten thoufand times brighter than the Sunne·; to whi(;h the darkefi Nooke of Hell is as the Nooneday. A.nd therefore not I,nor any man alive,can pro-_ mife pa!-}don,. or apply the pr<Qmifes, but conditionally, upon fuppofition: If thefe things /m fo, and fo, tU thou haft Jaid, And the fincerity of thy heart, and t-ruth o~ thefe hopefqH protdhltions, which we now h~ur~ ·from , thete in this extremity; (and I mull tell thee by the way, fuch like may bee enEm:;ed by the flavi fh fling of prefent terronr, not fairely and ir.egly flow from a true touch of confcience for _finne; I fay, _this may bee, though I hope better tbmgs of Thee) . The truth, as I faid, both of thy heart, and there affdl:ionate promifes, will appeare, when the fl:orme is over, and this difmall tempefi,which bath . over-call and lhaken thy fpirit with extraordii1ary feare, and a{hmi!hm~nt, is over-blowne. Thy courfe of life to come, will prove a true Touch-llone, to try, whether this be~ the kindly travaile of the New# bi~th ; or one~y a temporary taking-on dudng ~he fb1t, . Y.
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