' I !• I I I. 86 --. TbeSain·ts , have great penfivenelfe and terrour after fomehor~ i rible f.lfr, for feare of ihame, law, .punifhmenr~. , hellfire, &c. as had Iuda.r, Caine, saut, Efau, A.hab, I and fuch lik~, and yet come fhort of falvation. Hee may goe farre in outward fhewof anholy. andupright life; bee may bee a juildealer; an ordinary goer to Church ; a good pay-mafter; · a releever of the poore; ahountifullhoufe-kee– per; and yet at la~l: be turned into hell• ..Why then beloved brethren, .. itvery deeply and neerely · fl:ands ·every man ripon, to inquire and trywhe- · I ther his converfation bee counterfeit or currant·; 1 whether his ~onv~rfa.tion bee but formaH .. and· I faire ill fuew only, or finc_ere and truly Chrifiiari. At1d never fuffer hiseyes ..to :fleepe, .nor his eye– lids to fiumber ; never to reft alll.d be at qu~er, or - to pleafe himfelfe in anygra,ce or fervkes ; umtill c-omparing them ~th thofe attainable by the re– . probate, hee finde himfelfeto goe beyond them, · a1d to afcencl to the pitch of trudu,. and finceri– ty in a11 his way.es, whioh nm ,ca£l:--away can.pof.. . blyro.mpTehend ~ · or ev~r ~lltd.iue .unto. :Elfe :un– doubtedly in rhe.day of ~our v~fication _, when our c~nfciences iliaH fl.and upon ftrifr ·tearmes wioht .usJwhether we have beene formal! prtOfef– fors, or tnae Chrifrians ; we ihall fhrinke in rhe wetting.. And then when -it is-toolare, clifiourage-1 rnents :and 'feares wiU.ceafe·upon us in-an unfeafo– na:ble time,; and oar fme foam:datiGHl w.~bee _to laywhen theraine.faililet!h,:andth.eiflouds:come;ancl che ·winds blpw!) -M4t;tb. 7--,.6~ ·'~7~ A .gn~at many .men whe~1 they .faH down~upontheir becl of.laft , tkknelfel.
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