4s4 Inftruffion:t for a r~~ht comfortinz Sect:. 3 • _ _:.~----=-=--~~-- --~- Hypocrifie; 'l1is holineffe, onely humour; his forwardneffe,Phantafl:icalneffe; his fanctification, fingulari~y-. An? the~eupot: refolved, ~nd b?ifl:eroufly cGmbmed:agamfrlnn1 Wlth all thelrpohcy,purfes~ and poffibilities, like thofe ungodly ones, Wi[d. 2. Let mlicinwait for the r~~hteou-s: .Becauft Hee u not fur our turne, a;-td hee td c!eane t·ontrary to our doinl!s. hee up6r~ideth m With our offinding the Law, and~b~ ieReth to our infamy, the tr4n./j,reffings of our education,&c. I fay,now God may iutf.:r ii1ch a Man upon his deaths bed, to fall into fome more extraordinary, and markabledi4;omfort and diftreffe of Confcience ~ Ofwhich thofe gracele{le wretches taking notice, may thereby be defperately obftinated, and hardned in the1r lewd and carnall courfes. For feeing Gods hand upon him in that fearefull manner, and. wanting the fpirit ofdifcerning, they doe concludemoft peremptorily, that for his great 1hewes,. JJe was moH certainely but a counterfit. And fo the~nfelves become upon that occafion, many times more,mofl: implacable enemies to grace,and all good men; they are ftronglyer Iockt up in the armes ofthe divell,f<ifrer nailed to formality,or good-fellowi11ip, and which is the perfetl:ion of their madne(le and miiery, Hejfe themfelves in their hearts, faying merrily to their Brethren in iniquity: You fee now What tbefe men are, 'Which mt;k£ the~/elves (o holy, and are (o hot in religion : 7 hefe are ,the fi!lowe.r, Which pretenl .to 6e fo ji:r11pu!ouo and precife: and of that .finlular Jlreine of _(a;-;ftity, that they 'tl•ink§ none foal! 6e [aved -6utthemfe!ves,r§·c. Youfeeinthi.J Man the defjer.-:te endsof.Juch hypocritical/Puritans. · Thus the glory of .Gods J uiJ:ice is juH:ly magnified, by letting them grow frarke blinde, who wilfully frmt their eyes againfr the light ofGrace, by giving them over to a reprobate mtnd, who· fo malicioui1y luted to be li~formed ; And fo too often, they walke on for ever after,
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