...,.,-·--- --··- --...-·-·· -------.:...... •. . --·----- ·-·---··-·-.---------· ·-~ Part.2.Chaps. ~Jfiifled (onfciences. 45 fl. ·----- -------- ---- ---- --- --·- --- ----- ------ more credit to the.Father of I yes, . then the Lord of Truth.Sith tl,ou fpiHl: all the Cordials, that are tendered unto thee in the Name of C hrifl by His faith-- full Phyfitions, thou art defervedly deftitute ofeom- · fort fhll. Many in iuch Cafes, while Gods Mdlen- . ger,who can rightly declare His wayes unto them, fiands by, opening, and applying the rich treafures ofGods free mercy, in the .myftery of the Gofpell,. and with prefent replyes, repelling Sa tans Cavils,are reafonably well che:-tred,and revived; But when he is- gone,they very weakly and unworthily give way againe to that foule lying Fiend, to caft adifcomfortable mifr oyer'the tender eye of their weake Faith, and to domineere as ~e did before. Tell me true ; Iftholl wert in doubt and difl:reff~ about thy temporall frate, Tenure of thy Lands, fonndneJ:fe of thy evidence; WouldeH: thou ad vifl! . with,and take counfell from a Foele,a Knave,and an enemy; or wouldeft thou make choife ofan honefr, wife_, under11:anding Friend? l doubt not of~thine . anfwer: And wilt thou then fo fardifparage divine truth, gratifie Hell, and hurt thine own heart, as in that weightidl: Point ofthy fpirituallflate'; to con-- fu1t and refolve \ylth the.Divell, a Lier, aMurtherer, and Iworne enemy to Gods glory, .and thy Soules good; _and negled.God Himfelfe, ble!fed for ever, fpeakin~ unto thee out ofHis W ')rd, by that Minifier, which in ft1ch a Cafe dur11: not fa lfifie, or flatter thee for a world ofgold? Shall many thoufands of worldly-wtie men,givecredit very readily,& roundly to 'D4;:v6erJ With inte-mper.ed.-moru r., upon a falfe and rotten foundationrto the moft certaiqe and eter- . nal~ ruine oftheir So:Jlcs; And 1hall not an humblc,an upnght-hearted man, believe the Prophet upon good' ground; that the bones which the heavy burden ofJ in I h 1 .n. , 1, t b' 1 • • ~ ·"' dr b'i 3 s t lt tlOU muu . 'latn roKe,l,may reJovcer '.JO ror lL , · · L 1 · ·a . · .r · vvaw: .t 11 :t t l <m matn ' [: :3. Nay, but filppofe tl1e Party be truely humbled.- have • · very _
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