~~--------~----~-------- Part.I.Cap.IO. eAJfiiEled C()nftien(CJ. aRd extremities of tl;e Soule. At fuch times, and in fuch cafes as thefo: In · . 1. The firugglings ofthe New..birth. ~ . S pirituall Defertions. 3. Strong temptations. · 4. Extraordinary troubles upon our laf!: Bed. 1. For the firfi. \IV hen thou art once come fo farre Strugiings at t h ~ as I intimated before: To wit, that after a thorow New. bin h. conviCl:ion of finne, and found hum~liation under Cods mighty hand,upon a timely and feafonable re- \ elation ofthe glorions ~~yfiery ofChrift,}Iis excellencies, invitations, His truth, tender heartedneffe, &c. (For the defire, I fpeake of: is an etf.;;tl: and <JffeCl:ion wrought ever immediately by the Gofpell a- . lone; ) I fly, \vhen in this Cafe thine heart 1s filled wi rh vehelnent longings 2fter tb! Lord of life : · If tl~ou be able to £1y with David, My [oulr; thirfteth af- Pfai. I4 ; .6, ter th~e,M a thirfly Land: ·· If thou feele in thy felfe an hearty hunger and thirfi after the favourofGod, that r ountaine opened. for finne and for uncleanneife, and fellow01ip with Chrift; Af1i1rediy then the Well of lifo is already opened unto thee, by the hand of thy 6ithfull Redeemer,and in due time thoul11alt drinke thy fill. He that is Alpha and Omct,a, the Beginning · and the End;the eternall and unchangeable God bath promifed it. And am1dl1 the forrowes ofthy trem" bling beart, and longings ·ofthy thirfiy foule, thou, maifi even ehalienee it at his hands with an humble, •.fober, and zealous confidence. As did that f s cotti}h •t See t~1C preface \".'fitPenitent, a little before his Execution:He freely con- ten by G . Abbot, Dofijfed hu fault, to the foame, as Hedaid, of himftlfo., af or ofhDtEvmity; bed h fo ,.r 1 ay· 1 :.L 1· f d ore t c xammauan tot e amc o 1 tfJe .v~veU, out to we fl ory o Go ! ons and convtt!ion of Hee acknowledged it to be fo hainousand horri- Ge;rge sprot, Notary ble, thv~t had he a thou(and lives, and could he die ten in Ayemomhlp~ g.z. 3~ thou(and deaths, hee could not mafet (atufailion, Notwithflandinl,, faid bee, Lord, thou haft left mee thi& comftrt in thy Word, that thou haft [aid; come unto me en d" all
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