1- \ Part.2.Chap.12. ~Jflilled C'Onftiencn. His owne free .Q1ercy and goodneffa,m1ght be crow- · ned with the glpry ofit. · · - - let !!very (lrri{tiari hy the way, take noticeof,at1d treafure_up this point, it may_-fieed him in fome fpirituCJ ll extremity ~ereafter: Go4mi$j ~met~me.s withdraw and delay hu comfort, to drdW hu cht!dren thorow all tf;e meane.r : Which,W/xn they have paffid 'Without ;refllailing ; he~ after 4nd immediately, When ke plea{e,puts to bi& helping hand, that they may not attr:it'Ute it to themeanes, tho~tgh never [o excellent ; 6ut to 1he mercies of qo,.d, the one!y Wc/1-f}ring,!JotiJ ofthe firft plantation,continuanu,andeverlaftingneffe ofa/! Ipiritu- . all grtJccs,and true comforts in a(l thofo happy ones, W.bich /hall be .faved. - Why cloth the lord let us ufe all the meanes; and. yet not find him in them ? . 1 hat we may know, hee onely commerh when bee will;nothing moving him, but his owne good pledure. · 5 .Fiftbly,The worldfometimes,that mighty ene- ~The punHhiog them my to the Kingdome ofChrifr, aided under hand by for _n,?t pri z ing t~c the covetous corruption.ofour &lfe hearts, and the fruttlo ofJefus Chri.ll Divels craft, (Forordinarily in all Affaults,andoverthrowes, Satan is the :Bellowes; .the World, the Wild-fire;our corruptions the Tinder,and the precious Soules ofmen, thofe goodly Frames, which are fearefully fet on fire, and blowne up) doth wraftle fo dofperately, even wi~h fame of Chri.fts Champions; that.furprizing theirwatch; cooling the fervour of their firll: love,and frealing away, by little and little, their fpirituall frrength; it fupplants them at lengtb, and throwes them upon the earth,Wheron it labouri might and maine, to keepe them downe,and doting, that fa they may root in the mud and ~ire thereQf, with immoderation & carking,to the great difgrace of divine pleafures, their high and excellent Cal .. ling,& fa railing the ipirit of railing in unregenerate ~ k 4 men~ ·
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