InftruEfionl for ll right comforting Sect3. - --- ----'-----"--- - - - -- - - r Wherrwe cannot do ~hat u enioynedm,godace; ~Ibid. teth ourWill to do,in fle~d ofthe7Jeedit folft. 1 am trouMed ~ith ftare, that my jinnes are not pardoned, faith Careles. They are, anfwered 1 Brad· 'ACls and M0m~ m. in ford : For god hath_given thee apenitent, and be!eevin~; Bradford> letter to heart: that u, an heart, which dejireth to repent, and ~~:e1 les In the 5 fiory of heleeve. For fuchan Orte u ta"kn pfhim (He a~·cepti111r .,...e es,p.:uo • h '"fo h m d . <'> t e Wtu r t e .vee ) for a pemtent and .6elecving The fot·mer true de- _ftres knowne by the(e markes. -l.Its fupernatura ll. . heart. ' CH A p , I X. Bywhatmnrktt true dejire~ af grace in m may he kztowne. . mEforei comet~theufeof this .comfor~ table Point;lefi: any couzen themfehes by any mif. conceits about it; As the notorious Sinner, ' the meere ;Civilt - . Man, and the formall Profeffour, may. ·all doe very eafily;take notice offome Marks of this #. faving'D~jire.It is: . - . ' 1. · Supernaturall..For it foilowes an effcCl:uall convietior> of finne, and co-operatiqn of the fpirit of bondage,with the preaching and power ofthe Law, for a thorow caflin.rt. aMan do'rfne in the fight (Jf th~ Lord, ihewing and-Convincing Him to be a Sinke of "1inne,abomination and curfe; to be quite undone, .Jofr and damned in himfelfe. (Which preparative worke, precedent to the deft re ,I fpeake of, is it felfe above nature.) Wh~reupon the Soule thus illightened,convinced,and terrified,being ·happily 'lead unto, and looking upon the glorious myll:ery of the Gofpell, the excellenc~ and offer oflefus Chrill:, the fweetneffe.and freeneffe ofthe Promifes, the heaven- . ly fplendour and rithes of the pear/Q ofgreat price, . ---~ -- -- .. - . . -· -- - .- - - &c.
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