;- ftlfe--inricb~ng txamination. 1 . ~IJ J)(lvidbegins thus,Pfe~/. I 30 Out afth~deepep!~~~ ~ have Jc~lledHMtothee)OLord. Hecries out asthough t ·fome gapingof theeuth, or gulfe Qf the Seahad·l .fwilllowed him upquicke, (for fo the word figni· ; .fie.s in theo.rigin:all!-w~ere there were no fcaping-j' but by amtrade. So cnes he, and calsout of the depthsofunexprefiable farrow unto his God, in .thehighefl: Heavens, ttlat hee ~ouJd lend him ·his mercifull hand; to ·pull himup out of the mouth of Hell, l~ft he utterly and irrecoverably finke il'l· to the pit of ddhufrion. . ThisFevifitAtionwith terrours of confdencein theChdfHan; is. c~mmoaly-iu rhefe cafes: I ·. •· Ifthe pa!lg.sof a ma.ns.coo~ie~ce in his new } btrth, be· npt •nfome.good propont<man(werable · · :t-o the hai"noufnc:tfeQf his f0rmcr tr~nfgreffions and ' rebellions; If he hathbin 3.n~xtraordinary ftnner; .I andblltaa ordin:ny fon:ower for Gnne; If hehat:h beeneverynot: in Sa.tranafc.rvit:e befor~ hiscaiJing, . andnot.-veryzealous foFGQdsgloryafeer it ; If he ! marched furioufly ir.t rhe,purfuir of earthly plea– .f1ires in the,dayesofhis votnity, and creepsburon– ward flowly in the. wayes ofgodlineffe after his converfton, why then God out of his 1ufl:ice and wifdome, upon occafion, may charge upon him -, greater terrour~ than atfirfi, and ·doubledhorrou-r ·to that he fufraiped befure, thatr thereby hee may 1 bethrougly hmnbleet that,as·itwere, by this fe- . condrravell, Chri£1; may-moreperfectly he formeJl i•hi~t~.; that hiS heart: maybee forev.er:after·more O:ro.nglypo£feifed with loathinganddetefiationof . mis formerha.tefnU life, and 'the. abominations of his ~
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