310 Generall diretliosnsr-A s Eor.S.ty.. M,,.t,.ta, 'Tr,InfinCntatio. warming, andwelcome to my heavy heart, then manygal.' denworlds,more delicious thandelight it felfe,Aat. z 1.289' Rev.21.6. Ia1).7. 37. x ) 55.a. and 57.15. z6. Ezeck. 38.áo, 31.32. and 33. z i. So that at fall, Oh bleffedworkeoffaith! flaying my felfe, and reffingmy finking foule upon the Rocie' ofeternitie, and the impregnable truthof there fweeteft pro- :mires, fealedwith theblood ofthe Lord Iefus, and as fare as, God himfelfe, I threwmy felfe into the mercifull and met:- torious armes of my crucified Lord; with this refolution,, and reply toallterrors and temptations to thecontrary ; that if I muff needes be call away, they fhall teare, and rent me from the tender bowels ofGodsdeareff compaflions,upon which I havecaff my felfe: If they would have me to hell, they (hall pull and halemefrom the bleeding wounds of my blefi'ed Redeemer, to which my foule is fled. Whereupon I foundand felt, (and I bielleGod infinitely,and will through alleternitie, that ever k was fo,) conveied, and derived upon me frommy blefl'edjefus thewellfpring of immortalitie and life, a quickening influenceof his mighty Spirit, and heaven-, fly vigour of faving grace, whereby I became a newman,- quite changed, new created. By this vitali moving,and in- cubation, as itwere, oftheSpirit ofChriff upon theface of my foule, all things became new: mine heart, affe&ions; thoughts, words, a&ions,delights,defires, forrowes,fociety; &c. Old things pad away, behold, all things become new., And I am fare mychange is founi, and Paving; for It is not z. A meere morall change fromnotoriouftieffe, to civilitie, and no further. 2. Nora formallchange onely, which addcs tomorall honefty, outward profeffion, and outfideconfer.. -. miry to theordinances, holy exercifes, moll:duties ofReli gion; andno more. 3.. Nor meerely mental : tmeane it thus: ( for I know, true repentance is called change ofminde,in a- nother fenfè) When the underflanding onely is illightened with divine knowledge, guilded over, as it were with the dazeling fplendour ofgenerali graces, not without force fpe- culative fla(hes of fleecing joy, twinning in the, brain in. deçd, but not rooted in the heart. i.. Not temporaryy onely, filch ;.
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