Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

fe/fe.,inriching exam~nation. ruptions ,. and more refined and fitted for. GodS glorious fervice here, and the glory of Heaven .hereafter. 2. Or ic may be fuch a man for fome'di\7ine fe– crer, invifible purpofe, may bee as it were repri ~ . ved and refpitcd unto his deaths-bed) from ~ny more fpeciall and markable remorfe and terrour 'for his Gnnes ~ but then hemaybepaid home with pangs of confcience,.and a fierce frefh atfauJt of all his.fins,mufl:er~d &marfhalled together with filch ·new fring1ngs and afionifhmenrs,whichwill breed -in him feares-and doubts, abouc the truth of his former ,eonveruon, . and in refpecl: of which all · 4iirim~Il fufferings for linne before , were but leffer frightings an,d flea .,birings : They may for a fe.tCon fo frrangely l.l!under and confound inhim all hisformer comforts of holine!fe, fincerity, and a good confidence~ his faith in Chrift, hope of Heaven, ,and affuranc~ ofGods favour, that hee feeles himfelfe already·almofi inHell, hedoubt muchofhiselection. He fufpefrs his converfion to ·have beene counterfeit, his former life to have beene hypocrifie, his company with Chrifiians to have beene for bv~refpetts;fo that he is uncom- · parablymore affila:ed in confdence, thep at firft · wh€n he 'vascalled, and liesin unexpreffable Ago– nies, untiH rhat God, '~hofe propertie is ro _ fhew , hismercies then greacefi, whenthey arenearefi to . bedefpairefi of, cloth in the depth ofdifcomfort .·and darkneffe ihine glorim1fly upon his , heart :· . · a~aine with the ligh~ of his favourable c<>unt~- ~nance, and evef}.afring compaffioa - ~ ,And then . . ·,, • Z ~ when.'

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