fqule-exaltt, humiliation. blood-fbed;all thebldfed promifes in:Godsbook. Ofwhkh:> that we maybee fen fiblean~conceivea– right:> take notice ofthefe two things: 1 AsSatan is infinitely indufl:rious to keepe our · hearts refolutely ll:ubborne and unfiirred againfr the might and piercingofthemofi: powerfull Mini– fterie; and when hee perceives it once to begin to w®rke/upon them, raifes-all poffible oppofitiop· againfr their yeelding, and the Devill is fuch a tl:ir- . rer againfl: true forrow for finnc -wrought by the word, that themof} part know not what it meanes ; for'he well knowes, that ifonce a poore foule brui– fed with the burden of finne and weight ofGods wrath into teares of godly forrow, and penitent foftneffe, flie into thebofome ofChriftJefusblee– ding upon the Croffe~ andas it qught and ishound, in his name to feize u}Jon,with the hand offaith,and to grafpe with all holy greedineffe, as hisowne, all the p-romifes oflife in Gods bleffed book; I fay that then, this very afr ipfo f aHo, as they fay, deprives himofall rig~r and inten~ft unto it for ever. And ' .thereforehe labours might and maine to keep it all, and as long as hee can from mourning for linfle. 'Whence fpring our firfi, finnes ·in .-this fecond . furvey, fee a little before ; at firfl: our lothnelfe t to leave Satans fetvice) &c. Sowhen Gods mer- ' i cifull violence harh once conquered them, .and ·theybegin to melt kindlily, and fincerely to abhor · all finne, foth~tweehaveafeafonabkcalHngtolay · hold upon Chrift ; Oh, thenhe labours tnight and . ma1ne with all refl:lelfetrseltie and malice to keepe our confi:iences continually upon the racke; when godly . 123 . J
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