288 Inftruaions for A ri.ght comforting Setl. ~. WO~ld/J ./Hj!s, And living /Dbe~/y, r.ightcottJZJ, ~nd god/i. ly m thu prefent world, of whtch the grace of Gocf tea- ~hcth every true Convert ~o make Confcience. I fay, 1f upon thy recovery, th1s be thy courfe; Thou art certainly New-created. . Such bleffed behaviour as· this, willinfallibly evidence; thefe prefent terrours to have beenethe Pangs of the New-birth, .and thy bappie tran!1atio~ from de~th to life~ from the vanity and foily ol fin Into the hght and hberty of G o n s Children~ Zech. 13· 1 ' s( dl J'! h' Wh 1 bl f. The {econd advice 2.. eco~ Y, 1ay unto _1m : et? once tlat econccrnii»g th; repen- fed Founta111c of Soule,.favmg bloud IS opened upon ranee~ thy Soule, in theJide of the Sonneof God, by the pAs co~ceming (or- hand of Faith for Jinnc and for uncleanne{[e; . then alfo r~w, feei!l~ the caufes mufl: a Counter-fpring as it were of repentant teares fhll rem:une, namely, b d . h" h 'bl d h- . ' h" h 11. corr~ptioA & . affiilii· e?Pene m.t me urn . e ear!, '"Y _1c mu~~. n~t be on· therefOre this for• dned up untlll thy P dying day. fhts 1s my meamng; ro~ mull continue to (for ev:ery Chrifl:ian bath not teares at command: our!ivesc:nd: Tho in the h~art fometimes may bleed, when the eyes are a dlftcre!lt mann~r : dry;) -Thou muft be content to continue thecurrent now mmgled With f b · b · k · d comfort. whereasrhe o ·thy g"dly forr.ow uponJhat a emma le Sm ean fermer 'before Fairh Sodome ·of all the lulls, vanities and villanies of thy cpuld . have none. darke and damned time; an~ alfo tiJ:>on thofe fi·ailWbereas 011 the other ties, infirmities , . imperfections, defects, relapf:s, ~~fr~ .~~~~[b.r~~~~ ~:! back..,flidings, ~hich may accompany thy re~enerate never found asitisro ftate; even untdl -that body of finne, which thou be fe :ne in ~13ny, who carriefl: about thee, bee. diffolved by the fl:roke of be1ng on~e deeply af- death. As concerning thine "Id finnes, and tho~ that fl~~ted,fiJq g.rca~ hea- are pall:, it is not-enough that now the frelh horrour vmcs for their mifera. f .. 1 . d l .r:, • r1 I a:: • h . c. ble fiJte afterward o t 1em, an t 101e gnue y. anng tmg xormes, commi.n~twrorn com- where~n they have appeared to the eye of thy wouniort, are.grownc:fo fe-_ ded confcience, have wrought ·upon thy heart, by cure. &.fenfeleffe,~hat Gods bleffing, fome foftneife, heart-rifing remorfe, h.avmgno.true gnd:, and-hatred : But thou .mu{l; many and many-a time o.r remoric for their f . . .' · f d daily corruptions> eo- herca tcr, _In the extraord1!1ar:y, ex;e~clies o ~enue unc thcmfelvcs, that repentance;· preffe thy pemtent _fpttit to bleed afr!flh t~e;y were once: .can within thee, _and . _q dr~tw w~r:er ag<Jine out of:the bot- . ' · tome
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