comfortable walking with God. feCion, yet it it exceeding broad. And tFerefore though Inch as hate to bereformed,efpeciaily, if their confciencesbe wa- king andworking, are draw ne to a particular andpunauall Purveyof themfelves andall their wayes in thispure Crillall, even as a Beare to the flake, a Bankerout to his counting booke,anEIepharnt ro the unmudded water, a foule face to the Looking-glafíe : They are well enoughcontent toheare theCommandementsread, refiraining theirunderfiandings onely to the groWea&s, Thou(halt not kill, &c. and perhaps ¡unifying themfelves Pharifaically thereabouts; butcome to theholy ilri&nefïe of Chrifis expofition, Whofoezer looketh on a Woman to luff after her, bath committed adulterie with her already in hit heart, &c. and it (hikes full cold to their impure hearts, and caufeth them to cry out againfl the menof God, Why doe you torment us before our times ? I fay, though it be thus with the unregenerate, by reafon of their guiltyand gauled confciences; yet let it be thy delight, ptai r. z> whoarcble(Ted with an everlafiing impregnable prose&ion, by the blood and merit of Iefus Chrifi, from the curie and rigourof theLaw, to perufe thy felfe pun&ually by this heavenly Looking-glaffe, for the difcoverie of thy de- fefis and aberrations, and to dive with fearchingand feri- ous meditation, into this adored depth of perfe&ion and puritie, to fee how farre thoucornett (bort : and then thou fhalt finde infinite more caufe to prefí'e hard towards the marke, thento looke upon that which is behinde, orproud- ly toprize any thing that is pall. Onely, I advife,when thou Petsthy felfthus folemnely toripup thyconfcience,andran- 4facke thy heart to theroute, to bring it downe and into the duff, for increafe of humiliation and lowlinefl'e in thine owne eyes : as thou holden out in the one hand the cleare Çriftall ofGods pure Law, to difcover the crookedneffe ofthy vile naturali difpofition,thevillanies and skarlet abo- minations ofthineunregenerate time, the dayly fpotsand fames which light upon thy foule, &c. hold out altoin the other hand, or rather layhold uponChrifl Iefusby thehand offaith, hangings bleeding, anddying upon the Crofíe, for Z 3 rha
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