314 Job Ijo16, 'FbeSaints this unrcg:nerati~n; and that his zeale maynow be as hot m the ca_ufcs of G?d ~ as formerly his\ : fury was headlong m the ferv1ces of Satan. .· · 2. Secondly, If the Chrifl:ian by the violence· . of temptation, and the powerfull infinuations of hisowne flefb, be entangled againe, and re-infe-· cted with fome former fenfeall pleafure of his un;. · regener2tion ; or by reafon of the remiffion of his care, and watchfulneife over his wayes, be fudden- . lyfurprized with fome new·nororious finne ; then ·mayGod jufl:ly, hefidestheparticularfiing of the prefent, write even many moe bittet thi~tgnJgii'ttft · .him,aedmak,ghimpojfejfethe iNitj11itietofhityoutb. So. that thofe finnes, which in the dayes of his inw3rd peace he looked in the face without feare, refrinie their former ugly vifages , and fright him with· . fl:unge amazements, and new perplexities. And to this end dorh God fo deale withhis dearefr chil- · dren, that hee may more 'and more weane them from the world , weaken in them the power of finn~,and winne themnearer andnearer~ unto him– felfe, and the pleafures of-Heaven. DavidJ a man uncomparably exercifeff~ and excellent in fpiriru– all experiments, and all the lacred paffages of the great myftery of godlinelfe, .was full well acquain– tedwith this,point ofrevifirationwith terrours of confCience;,as appeareth, Pfal. ;t.&: z;. & 38.& 40. verf. n. Hee having committed that high of .. fence, and fallen into the grievous finne of aaul- . teryJ at the found and feafonable reproofeof Na– thtt?J, was fl:rockebythe hand of GOd withfpeciall r€morfe and terrour : .Whereupon, ·befides the · parriculat .
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