7'rial of on~·~ State, State 11 f. are new creatures, ye are born a·gain. But ye will fay, Horu.;jha/1 rwe knr-w wl·ether we be b~-rn again, or not E. Anf. Do you alk me, if the fun were rifen, and how you fhould know, whether it were rif-en, or not? I would' bid you look -up to the heavens, and fee it with your eyes. And would ye know if the light be rifen in your heart ? Look in, and fee. Grace is~ light, and .difcO\-ers itfelf. Lo<>k in-to thy mind, fee if it has been illuminate in _the knowledge of God. Haft thou been inwardly taught \\·hat' . God is ?- Were thine eyes ever turn~d inwa ~d to fe e thyM felf, \he finfulnds of thy de_praved Hate, the corruption of thy nature, the Gns of thy heart and Jife? Waft thou ever let into a view of the exceeding finfulnefs of fin ?, f:J;tl·e· thine eyes .feen King J ejuJ in his beauty ; the m'a-nifold wifdom of God in him, his u 'anfcendent excdfer.cy, and abfolute fuln(fs and fofficiency, with th~ vanity and empti– nefs of all things -el f!! r Next, What change is there on· -thy will ? Are the fetters taken o'fr: wherewith it was fomt:• time bound up f rom-moving heaven-wards? And has thy ' wiH got a n-tw fet ? Dofl: thou find ao averfion to fin, and· a pn•oenefs. to good wrought -in thy heart ? Is tfly fod' tumed ~:swa1 ds God as thy chief end ? ls thy will new moulded intO fame meafure of con.formity to the ph:ceptive· and prov,iJt:nti aLwill ofGod ? Art thou.heanily-reconcil-· ed to the coven'lnt of peace, and fixedly difpofed to the receiving of Chri!l, as be is offered in the gofpel ? And as to· . _, a cu<Hl ge on your a:ffeClions, are they r ectified, and place$ on righ t obj ects ? A1e your deiires going out after God ? Are ~hey to his name and remembrance of him ? lfa . x,xvi. S. · Ate your: hopes in him ? ls your lov<; fet upon bi n1 , and. your h:ttred fet againlt !In? Does your offending i good . God affeCt your heart with fono\r,.\ and do you fear fin m01:e th:m tban fuffering ? A-re your affeftions regulated ?· . Are- they, with refpett to created comforls brought ~own, as being too bigb ; ,and with refpeCl: to God in Ch rill, {erew-- ed up, as being too l~w ? Has he the chief feat in your heart ? Arid are all your lawful worldly comforu and en- - joym~nis laid at his feet? ~.as ~hy confci~ncc been er-- . . li ghtened and awakened, refullng a\1 eafe, out fro~) the , application of the bl ood of a ~--e d eemer? Is_<hy memory fant}ified, thy body confecrated to the ferv1ce of God?' ·And.
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