lnflrutUonl fir A rit,ht romftrting .alas! he winnes by it wofully. All the while he plies with gr~at ad vantage,a!1~ much fLibt~lty, ~is hideous temptatlon~ to felfe-klllmg, defp~u~ of mercy, re~ turning agame tofolly,&c. And 1t IS tobefeared which is amoll grievous thing ; that fometimes by this cruell filence, He conquers,and cafis fome pdore foules,upon the bloody, and moO: abhorred villany of felfe-perifhing. Let fuch an .one then be ever f.Ure moU: refolutely to treake .thorow the Divels accur: fe~ fnare 'in this kiri.de .; and to poure out his foules fecrets betime, into fome faithfull holy bofome. I have l1eard many, after they l1ave dcaped, tell what ftrange tricks, and vadety ofdevifes he praClifed, to difcourage,divert, and difable them to difcover their m~ndes"- as they purpofed; even when they were . ..come, with much adoe, into the prefenceof the fpirituall Phyfition. ~· Then confider the . 3. The ends towhiehGod prepares, and fits fome en 1 d 1 s for whh~ch 1 God by their fore travaile in the New..:birth, and lono-er c:a smenvv IClOcca· la 'fL" d H" ·1· · 1 i" h" k" 0 c t' r ·rovv 1 · 0 mZUlmlng Ull er IS Vl 1tlng 1,al1l lH t IS md.God uon grc:a er 10r · ..., . • . • . fome vvho are may purpofe fometlmes m fuch cafes. -- ~ x. To be ch:mpioos I. To g imploy them, as Chrifl:s moll: -refolute, for 'Gods ca~fe. and undaunted C.hampions,in more worthy fervices·. 'G~ds Clu!d-ren 1re In managing w~ereof,_rem.cmbranceoftheir. having bhm.tfed Ree~s beforde beene once,as it were,in -the mGutlwfi-lell,and fcort e1r convemon, an h. . l B f - r · · often-times after.: Be- c ed Wlt 1 amcs o terrour, .~erves as a contmuall fore Co~verfion, ~11, fpurre, andincentiv:e unto t~ep1, to_doe t;obly,and to (except 1uch as bcmg filpply them,from t11n~ to time, With m1ghtmdfe of bred up in th~Churcb, courage, height ofrd0lution~and emif1ency ofzeale, God h~th dehght~d to in thofe glorious wayes. As we may fee i·n thofe refhew h1mfdf gr~CIOUS • f . · h unto fromtheirChild. nowned pillars o the Church, Aujhn, Lut er.&c. hood) yet in ililterenc Tbe hi.gber andgreAter the building i.s, tk tleepermuft,:_ -degrees, as God feeth tbefoundation be !aidin thr:eartb. · meet; and as ddte- . rence is,in regard of temper, pans, and mumer o( life : fo Gods int~ndment of im- ' _ploymcnt for the time to come i For u 'UJlly bee empties [t,ch of themfelves, anJ rnakes th<'m·nothing, before He; vv.li ufe them iri any ~re at fuv1-ces. 'l.JtJllor Sibbes, /!Tuiftll R.'eJ,pag. ,.., . ~.To
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