lnflr•Biot~s for a right comforting s~a:. ~. children to p~t{fe thro~tgh the fire, in the ·VAfley cf the (on of Hinnom: Al{o He ob(erved times, andu(ed incha 11t .. "'ents, ~tnd u(ea .,itch-crll[t, avd dealt with a familiar Jfirit, 4,d mth f>J~ards. He wrought much evilt in the fight of the Lard, to provok.! him to An[tr, &c. And· yet_ this great !inner hnmbling h...mfolfe great.. Jy llefore the God -f. hu Fa~hers, was re~eived to mercw. - 2.,For 6nnc ar~er o~r Suppofe, which yet were a horrible thing, that afconycrfJOn, r- b d · · 1 f · ter convemon, y extraor mary v1o ence o temptation, ftrong inft1arement of fome fudden knfuall of.. fer and opportunity, treacherous infinuation of thy owne falfe heart, and furious re-alfault of thy former bofome-tin, ." Thou .ihoulde~ bee overtaken grofiely with fome grievous finne and fcandalous fall ; and then upon illumi'lation, remorfe, and med~tation of returne, reafon thus within thy felfe; Alas !. what {hall I doe now? I have undone all :_I have wofully . againe defiled my foule, fo fairely waf11ed in my Saviours blood, with that dif-avow~d fi.nne of my unreg.enerate time ; I have thamed my profeffi0n, difgraced religion for e\'er; I have broke my v'owes, lofl: my peace, and my wonted blelfed ·cmnmunion with my God, &c. And ther~fqre, what hope can ~ have, · of ·any acceptatioh agait1e at the Throne of grace? · I fay in .this- cafe, to keepe th~e from finking, 1 .A•ron authDrhorren-caH: thine eye; upon Y• ~aron, David, 1 Pettl' : who J,e Iclt1lolatri.e no• ahij- returning with found and hearty repentance, were '-it111,n~c ab(orbetur ~b mercifully enterta~ried ·into as great favour, as they Jrad•vm& MoJ1er. m were bef~. But God forbid, that any profdi0ur of Pfal.n. religi~n f1]._ould ever fall fo fewly, efpecially in this glorious mid-day ofEvangelicalllight ! . 3~Fordekttion. Art thou languifhing under the heavy defolations ;0f a fj:>irituall dcC:rtior,, and deprived of thy.fo:·mer c0rnf<Drt~ble feelings · of Gods favourable countenance?· Loof,e upon David, Pf;rl. 77· _I rememlr. d. G~, ~tnd w.u tro~bled, J compl~tined, ;rnd my jpirit P?_IU
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