InjlrucliBns for aright comforting our longing Soulc:s, the fweet and comfortable influences of the Throneofgrace. ItmayfeemethatDa- - vid in the current of his prayer, fa w His old finnes . charge upon Him,and therefore cries out by the way; 3• Speciall afflictions Remember not the (tnnes of my youth. 3. ln the time of fome great afflifl:ion, and remarkeable Cro{fe; when upon a new fearch, and firia: examination of our hearts and lives; we humbling our felves more folemnely again in the fight ofthe Lord, and mourning afre!h over Him, whom we have pierced with our youtbly pollutions, and provok daily with many wofull failings, are wont to feeke Gods pleafed face, and our fOrmer peace ; fanctification of It unto us in the mean time, and the removall ofit from us in due titne, 4, Specialllinnes. in the name of lefu.~ (hriff, 4· After relapfe into f<.1m~ old · fecret lu£1:, or fall into fome new fcandalous fin ne. Davidsremor[e for adultery and murder, brought his r. Speciall bumiliari heart to bleed over his birrh-finne, Pfol. 5 I. 5. Above on. all, upon all thofe mighty Dayes of humiliation by ~ prayer and falling, publike, private, or fecret : whereEft l]N<fdam pmu om~ in Gods people wrallle with God by the omnipotency 111potent1a, Luth. f .J k r. d fi · o prayer, an~:t wor e 10 many won ers rom ume to time. . Some there are alfo, who fetting apart fame fpeciall times to conferre with God in fecret, lay together before Him, the glorious Catalogue of ~he riches of His mercy, reaching from everlatl:ing to .. everlall:ing, all his favours, prefervaticms, deliveran- <;~s, protections, &c. from the firfl: beeing, to that time; and the abhorred Catalogue of all their finnes from A dam to that houre, Originall, both imputeJ, and inherent; actuall both before and Gnce their cal~ ling ; and this they doe wtth hearty de!ire of fuc.h dift;rcnt atf~Cl:ions, as they fe\'erally require. Aknous and fellfible comparing ofwhich two together, makes finne a great deale more loathfome, and the mercies of God more illufrrious; and fo prooves effeCl:u~ll many times, by the helpe of the Holy Ghoft, to
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