InftrH£t,ian~ for~ Pight comfOrting - Se~.3 • V(}fy. fit; and: fearctfrill matter, fo.r Satan to worke in hideoul1y ; and to play his pellilent praRkes ofmo!l: grolfe imp0frures, and much helliili cruelty. Hi9-_ ,malicious maine plot again!U"l1ch, or-dinarily is, and :hi~ ~ tJtmofi: . indeavour -; .to drive them to .idfe-de- :!hrQtl:jon, if .it bep..offible, belfore they get underfhncli1:1g in the wayes ofG.od.; or we oan get any corn- • s . lt petent light~and comi·ort into their confciences. •• ome ctreumnances -' . cf'tbe New-birth ~. Some cencurrent .ctrcrunfiances: As, •· Sad cenRitutio'n of :I: The ·· n1.dand1o~ike, and fad confl:itution .of the perfon. the party. 'lhat humour doth mturally g-ive extraordinary entertaine.ment, and edge to terrours and forrowes. 1. T_heeviU difpolition .2 • The crabbedne!fe, and crookedm;ife ofhis naofhls.n:v;uu:. 11 d'i'. c · b' t il. L / . 1 d. · .tura · · lt_P-OIItlOn, w .ten muu tJe-tamcu, an taken · down€: with .more adoe; with much violence, and. r~nting. An hard and knotty bl-ocke, mufl: h<l ve an hard wedge. An angry word, m ftowne,will worke .ll}ore with{ome.difp.ofitions,then. many fore blowes upon a croffe, and fl:urdy fpirit. God is here wont fwegly, a,nd wifely t-o apply Himfelf<::to the feve~ rall patu~es, c-onditions, and difpolitions of his children. ~~ High condition of --~ ~ H~ight of place, an? happineife t? have for .his etlate~ · this ~-tfe, what heart can Wlih. Whereby It comes t-o p?ffe; that men are fo deepely drowned in feriiuality t -e_ri£ntifmel, ~md earthly-mindednd1e .; that for a -~horow change, they baYe need many times to be take&-~owne thorm.dy with a deepe {enfe oflegall terrouFs. · · 4: ~reatexcellency of -4 ExE:ellcncy of naturall, -er acqqired Parts! and. gd'ts. endowments-; as wit~ learning, courage, wifedome; - ~¥c. wretchedly abufed,and long t_nif-imployed,upon v.v-rong-and wicked objeers. Much adoe,many times, -and a great fneafure ofhumi1iation,-will'hardly fright fu~h vain~ OYiirvalewers of them{elves~ and Idolizers,oftliejr ownefufficieHCies, from the1r admired . . fu~
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