----------------------~--~--~----- 470 InflruEiion.r for 1t right comforting Sea-. 3 • --~------------ ----- an indignity ;and difparagement off.::red unto to glo.o rious a \Vorkeman,a nd bleffed a worke, to alfent and fubfcribe unto the DiYell, aknown Lier,that there is no fuch thing -~ ,.4.Mafci:s him guihy of 4· ~ o double and aggrayate upon the Chtifiian, ,infi4dity. the gnevous finne ofunbellefe: Not to beleeve the rromifes,as they lie in his Booke) is an unworthy, and wicked wrong unto the truth of God: But for ·aman to dttaw backeand deny, when they are all made good upon his Soule, makes him worfe then Thom.u the Apofile: For when bee had thr~Jfl 'hu , hand into ChriftJ ftde, bee believed: But in the pre- . fent cafe, aman is ready: to renounc-e and.difclaime; Though bee have already grafpt .Ln the; armes of his Faith, the -:crucified bleeding .body of 'his blelfed Redeemer; the facred and .favmg vertue whereof hath infpired into the whole man a new; fpiritual~ £ItochfYing life; and a fenfible, undeniable change from what it was. ·s'G~ilty ofingratitude 5. To difcontinue or detaine the heart lock"t up., as it were, in a_perpetuall barrenneffe from giving of thankes; which is one-ofthe nobld1:, and mofi: acceptable Sacrifice and ·fervice, that is otrered unto God. Nowwhat amifchiefe is this, that an upright heart fhouid be laced up, and his tongue tyed by the - dhrels temptation;from magnifYing lieartily the glory of (jods ftee grace, for fuch aworke? I meane the new Creation ; at which Heaven and Earth,Angels and men,and a11 Creaturesmay ftand everlafi:ingly amazed. So fweet it is and admirable,andmakes an immortall Soule for ever. - 'C:utfc:s of this perfvva.. -But to ·keepe my felfe t(;> the Point. Thofe wbo tion. · complaine,as I have faid ~ That becaufe thepangs of their new-birth were not in that proportion they defire, anfwerable to the hainoufneffeoftheir former peftilent courfes, and abominableneffe of their , ~~aftly lif~ ~~f.~re~ many tim~s fu~~ t~emfelvesd, . . . m
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