,Part t. Chap. '4· fecurity in their old wayes :c_I fay, evenfo it is fome• times alfo, with men in afiliClions of Soule and trou• . bles uf confcience: while the agony and extremity is upon them, they take on, as thoug~ they would become true Converts ·i ·both prom1fe, and purpofe many excellent tlotirigs for the time to come, and a remarkeable change ~ But if once the fi~ bee over, they flart Aji;i~. lik! A brok!n Bow; and fearefully fall away from what they have vowed, with horrible ingratitude, and execrable villany; having beene extraordi~ narily fchooled and fcorched, as it were, in the flames of horrour, and warned to take heed by the very vengeance of Hell. For the former, heare the exper~~ ence of Reverend Divines: MllnJ foeming, faith One, · to re;mt ajfoaionatd) in f/angerous flck.!telfe, 'JJPhen PhiJ · have recovered, have hen r~tther:worfe then !Jefore : I would have tbeitJ:ht my folfe, faith a~other, that many monflrQUJ. Perfon;, whom 1 hAve vijited, . when (jqJs h~nd upon th~m, caufod them to cry oU.t, andpromife b mendment, would have _proved .rare examples to cthen, of tr.H~ &o1JVerjioH H~to GoJ : BHt to m1 great grief~, a11d to tead1 me,e experience, "What hecommethof filch untim~f.J fr#Ji.f.r, ih,ry hAve.turned lutck! ag.cine,; a~ a11 arrow from .a ft.one ,wAO,and_~tt . the dogge to Hi4 tiwn vomit,&c. ' ·· ' · - , gox --·· · ·' ...... For the latter, I could here make it good alf<> by too many exp~iences, were it convenient; But l fotbeare for fome reafons, to report them at this time. I publifh this paint and fpeake thus; Not to trou- z Dam114, ., 1ui hypoeri~ ble any true Converts about the truth of their heatti tica & temparttria fitie in their troubles ofConfcience : z-confcioufi1elfe-un- cre~u;1t, eosfoUz.dum to themfelves of their New-birth already happilio pNtat re;rmedcrrdesu,et n h · · · d . no1z vere c1·e unt. un pau; t e1r pnzt~g,. an clea':mg to the Lord /efsu_ , e11imiUoruin{lat, qJJi unvalewably, unvmctbly; thetr prefent New-obed1-{om'lliant,(c Reges e!fe. ence, new courles, new company, new converfati- cu fim pa'!perrim! : A: on, &c. makes it more than evident that they were mgamfl4z/los~qtll vera f · 1 u·fi d d· 1 · 'fi . fide crcdwnt, rgnarare, avmg y mo 1 c: an· me tc:d m the urnace o_f ~hetr an veremdiit,&falli 3 V fpu~tuall
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