InflruCiio"' for a rig~t comforting CHAP.VIL The third c...:na!adt'c of.ctJHfcience. The danger of it. 'Thecaufosoftt. Two thmgspropojed,for cure of it. 3· Cafe of not feeling 3 • •em-~ forrow anfwerable to Hirdly, Many there are, who much complaine ·ofthe great difproportion betweene tHe notorious wickedneffe of their former life, thei~ !innes. -and their lamentable weakneffe -· of an anfwerable bewailing it : Betweene ·the number of their finnes, aHd fewne1fe ef their teares; the hamoufneffe of their re~ hellions, and little meafure·of their humiliation. J Many are ftill que- And theretipon, becaufe they did not finde, and ft~oningoftheir begin. feele thofe terrors, and. extraordinary troubles of mngs;and though they · minde in their turning unto God ; thofe violent· came- to Farth &: com- patlions -ana pat'lgs -ii1 their new-birth which f~>rt by thefe £leps1 y~t h '. r. · h d £ ' arc fiill fearing, that !hey a\ie 1eene 3 ear , or read o '- .or knowne chey have not begun in m others, perhaps farre leffe !inners then themCfuth, or tlm they are f~lyes_;. they aremuch troubled with difl:raC\:ions and ll'Qt in the right vvay, doubts about the truth, .and f6undneffe oftheir conor tooke cof"rr, ere it verfion. 4 Whereby they receive-a great deale of b1;1lo.1"ed unto them h d t ·' d · h · fi · · 11 fl F S r___::_·J>..- ---"\ urt an )ltl erance m t . e1r p1ntua nate. or . at:m The d:tger of this per- gaines ve~y much by fuch a fuggefiion, and groun...{s fwafi<m,byic the dive! .many tim~s aman fold mifchiefe upon it. F·or by ~nd thi;:t"e~aufethe1r keeping t_his te~pt~tion on foot: :tliefe d~ubts and corrupttons bee fo trouble~ m the.tr mlndes, .whether they beetruely ftrong, and that they cannot doe as they would. But corruptions fd~, hated, and firiv en againO:, arc no markes thatvve are net the Lords; but the contrary. It is the fubtilty ofSatan,tO keepc them ever at the beginning, that they m:ty never get forward, T t ue.,it is good to he very carcfull tn laying the foundat ion of our houfe;Bnt if we be ever pulling up,after it is laid, we fh1llnever fipilh th$! building. M1. ~ogers of'Dedbam.'-DoClr.of,Faith cap z. pag 177. For :t tnir Chrifha:t.t() deny the worke ot:Gods grace in himfdfe· --- doth q~ · good to him; But interrupts Ius prayers, hmdcrs his humiliat ion, eihange th himfrom God,and turnerh godly forrovv for h1s Gnne,into defp~;rate forNW tor the puni£hment of finne.M~ Wharely God; Hu:b<Jrulry ,cap. 1 z. ~.enverted
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