3Q8: Ger,erall direaïons for 4 Ser.a3.z9.. Hab.3.0. .. doth fouridly comfort theheart ofa man fpiritually wife, a- bout affiyranceof his happie kite to Godward. And there- fore a true Chriftian, when beewould refrefh his fpiriis with theTweet contemplationofhis fpirituall fafety, and comfor- table being in a gracious Efate, caufeth his fincere confcience to anfwer in truth to filch like interrogatories,as thole which I havepropofed for triall in inch a cafe, in my Dffcourfe of arse happineffe, pag.85.&c. Review the place,andponder well upon them. Heordinarilybath recourfe unto, and runs over in his minde with an humble ravifhing commemoration, the heavenly footfieps,and mighty workes of the holy Ghoft in hisconverfion; fpeciall watchfulneffe over his wayes;fincere. heartedneffe, holy ftri&nefl-e, and fan&ified fingularities inhis converfation ; whichas theyarepeculiar toGods people, fo are they myfleriesand firange things to the bell unregenerate span; and that thus, or in the like manner: Bleffeel be God, faithhewithin himfelfe, that ever it was fo, yet fo it was : The holy Minitteryofthe Word fan&ified, and guided particularly for thatpurpofeby the finger ofGod, happilyfeized uponme, while Idid yet. abide in thearmes of darkeneffe, and the Devils fnares, a moil polluted, carnal!, abominable wretch ; and effeaually exercifed its Caving . power upon my foule, both by the workings of the Law, and ofthe Gofpell. It was firff as an hammer tomyheart,and brokeit in peeces. By a terriblecutting piercing power, it firooke a fhakingand trembling into the verycenter of my foule by thisdouble effe&. z. It fluff opened thebooke ofmy confcience, wherein I reade with a moleheavie heart, ready to fall afunder,, even like drops ofwater,for horror ofthe fight- theexecrableabo- minations ofmy youth ; the innumerable fwarmes oflewd and lawleffe thoughts, that all my lifelong had ftaiiìed mine inward parts with ftrangepollutions; the continuati wicked walking of my tongue; the curled prophanation of Gods bleffed Sabbaths, Sacrarnents,"and all the meanes of falvati- on lever medledwith. In a word, all the hells, finkes, and Sodoms of luf}s and finne, ofvanities and villanies I had remorfe-
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