so8 Jnftruaion.r for 11 right comforting intquitie.r,.trun[grejfroH.t t~nd jiHne.t, which had turned his face and favour from him ; in that fearefull man~ ner, as though he was ameere ftrange, or rather, a profeil: enemy unto his Majdl:y. And he prefently apprehends the burden and bitternetf;: ofthe iniqui<4 ties ofhuyouth; Thowwrite.ft, faith he, 6itrer thing.r againft me, andmak§ft me poffeJTe the iniquitie.r of my 1outh. At allfuch times, whenGod thus hides His face from us, and leaves us to the darkenetfe of our h P'~~a caufa,cur Je pec · ~wne fpirirs ; the finnes of our youth are wont to catu [u.e pueriti.e lrJ· he moft hea~y upon o~r he~rts,and exa.:t at our_hands quatur,eft,quod in iUa a more fpecmll renewmg, mcreafe and perfecbng of 12tate • v_e.hemenriores penitent forrow: For, 11 they are act~d with the very .fin~ '~ftdeta_tel ;propte- il:rength ofcorruptior1,in the heat of fenfuality, an cl r;_:i~=~u;i:~e~f:d!~/. h~ight of rebellion~ Hence it was that even 'David cens via mfuam?Si cu- htmfelfe cryes out, Rememher not the Jin.r of my youth; flocliat verbum tuum. and fo doth many moe, many times with much bit4 Cur rJe ju'fJe'llib:J,5 pori us terneffe offpirit. . ;..; ; qudrA de alijr .fit men- Is it fo then,that God may deale thus in mercy, e- '. \~ · ~=:n:=:~~!fea~~~;; ve? with his deareft fervan_ts; e~pecial~y, if penite~t . · '1Jitio(4 (f)' prava~tunc gnefe and trou~le ofconfctence m the1r converfaumaxime ebu/JitJ &c.. on, were not m fome good meafure anfwerable to Cal.Conc. s &;In Jeb, their former abominable life and finfull provocations, ~ p(al.~s·7· if they have beene extraordinary finners, and but ordinary forrowe~s for finne; ifthey were formerly fuM rious in the fervice ofSatan, and now but fomething faint-hearted in ftanding on Gods Gde ; I fheretofore they marched impetuouOy like Iehu; in the purfute ofearthly pleafures, and now creepe but £lowly forward in the wayes ofGod, or if they begin to looke back again with fome unconrroled glances after dif.. avowed delights,and abandoned company,&c.I fay, in fuch Cafes, the Lord may with-drawhimielfe in difpleafure, leave them for a time .to the terrenrs of their owne hearts;all their old finnes may returne to the eye oftheir confciences,as unremitted,&c. That fo their regeneration may be,as it were,regenerated, · their
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