...,.---:--:-----~_--.-.,...~................ ~.~,_.,.,.., __ -=·.,.. ._ -="'··= ·· '""""' -' *',....·""' -e"""a::.,., ~>x""'x_,.,,.., __,..,. _ - ~-_ ....,......,......,,......,__.,._, 138 The Saints - . -- willaffordus (had wee time to unfold thein) mofr arnple ma-~ter ofhumiliation above all the rdt Now in the review ofour relapfes, and falls, and frailties,let u_~ firft confider the multitudes ofchem, and then theaggravation ' of rhem. I The m~lritudes ofthemwill appear-: by thefe and fuch li~confide:rations: 1 It will beneedfull to confider wbat fins efpcciallywe havebeenemofi inclinedunto fince onr calling (as there are frill in the beftofGods children fuch finfuU.·indinations) weemay eaftlyca:ll to.minde howour profitable or pleaGng fi-n in formen times hath broken ·in uf;0n us in tatter:times. ~ Weemayconfider what our conf}itutions have naturally.led naro, whether or no fome inordinate ~tfeetion or difternpered paffi – o~, as carnall.forrowes, carnall feares, earnall joyes, ra.fh and unadvifedanger~&c.ifwe fhall'obferve the .dayly frirrin'gs ofthefe, it will addegreatly to the heapofthematterofour humiliati<!>n,as our Saviour warne.d.his Difcip!es, 1 oh. I 3.1 o.he that.iswafh~d(i. · jufrifiedandregenerate) needeth nor; fave towafll his.feet., but iscleaneevery whit, implying piain· ly, that-the fcet:ofour ·atfecHonsand·_paffiom after converfion, hadmoitneedto heewafhed. 3 Wee · are to remember ourmanifold confeffionsand dai– lyprayersand'protnifes made in them; how ofren we have.confetfedthe·fame finnes eoGod, prayed ag~inft them'; that argues·many relapfes and back.. ..llidin~s. · . l 4 Wemay recountthe .wandrings anchhe dHlra.. Clic:mS: o£<>urthe.trtsinhalyduties,tbecolanefTh.an~ deadneffeofour prayers, uoprofitablenefie under . . . ~~ •
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