294 , Gererall alireaiorrs för 4 to the end, Phil. 4.6. i Tim 6.9. 2o.Iam.5.1,2,3. ?rov.23.5, VI. Laf}ly, concerning a right and comfortable mana- gingofourfpirituall eflate, a point ofdeep& confideration, and highe& confequence, take noticeof two extremes, two dangerousRockes, uponwhich the foule may run, and fplit it.felfe fpiritually. r. The one is aproudover-pryzing ofour owne graces, with a conceited over-weeping (elfe-admiration. gìfta41/0occii 2. The a other, a deje&ed, difruffull undervaluing of twin animas, at .Godsmercies,the promifës oflife, and.thofe graces which we lefr"a°°' a"t oflefíe ia truth and. holydelre though not in that degree perverfa:fpes. p y , g ..ls gnfi.in roam. wedeliire. Serrná59° I. Before I can feafonably and preparedly fall upon the fir&, to inffruhpun&ually, and arme the Chriffianagain& it, with whom Iprincipally deale in thiswhole difcourfe :give me leave to difcover amy fieryof fpirituall Selfe-deceit ; by whichSatan fits prefumptuoufly in thedarkened mindes, and deluded imaginations ofthofe, whom withhiscunning and malicehehood-winkes, and hardens to their endleffe confu. fion. Many thoufands even under the meanes, and in thisglob rionsmid-day,of the Gofpell, are groundlefly conceited, that they are right, when as in truthand triall,they are rotten at the heart-roote ; that theyare lureofHeaven, when they are as yet moll certainlyof the family of Hell. Neither is this any firange thing : fo deluded were the f olifb Virgins,Mat, 25.:I t.12. and fo are all fuck outfideChrillians: Tbofe, Luke, 33.26, 27. and fo are, all, who &and onely on the worke . wrought,andbare taskeof religiousduties,without the pow er.ofinward holineffe : The young man in the Gofpell, Mat. 19.2o. with that generation, Prov.3o. a2.: And foare all filch civill Jufitiaries : theproudFbarifee, Luke 18.11(.12. whowas foconfident,that beegaveGod thanker for his blefl'edcondi- . tion ; when he wasbut yet a curled unjufified wretch ; and i'o are all of his formall f}raine: Thofee, Ioh.8.39. who held themfelves to be Abrahams children; whereas Chrif tells theán, ,
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