ofchrifi inall Beleevers. afles and throw upon the paper. Will ye do thus for your letters that ye write ? and will ye not do thus for your Duties and Performances ?When you have Prayed, and performed Duty, Go, goand look it over, and there you will find many Defeas ; many things to be blotted out, andmany things to be put in ; and when you have found theDefe&s inyour Dutie, throw dull upon it; and hum- ble your (elves before the Lord. Secondly, Ifyou would deny your felves in fpiritual things : Obferve much the In-comes of the Spirit of the Lord upon your foul. The way and manner of it, how Suddenly, how Unexpeecedly, how Freely the Lord by his Spirit breathes upon your foul. When your heart is Dead, when your heart is Hard, when you fay, God is now gone, and will never return again : Oh ! what free- dom once I had in Prayer ! but now my heart is hard, and I (hall never be able to Pray again : Then comes the Spirit ofGod, and breathes upon your foul, and gives you Prayer again. Now if I would but obferve the breathings of the Spirit ofthe Lord, how it comes uponme thus, when I am dead, when My heart is hard, when I fay I than ne- ver have prayer again ; if I could but obferve the Freenefs of the Spirits breathingover my foul, and railing up my heart to Duty again ; fhould I be proud of Duty, think you?fhould I not rather fay, Shall I be proud ? I was dead, my heart hard, and had not the Spirit come and breathed upon my foul, I had never been able to pray again, but had been lock'dup for ever : and fhall I be proud ? Cbferve the In-comes ofthe Spirit ; the way and manner of it ; be much in this, and you will be able to deny your felves in fpiritual things. Lilly, Lookmuch into the Gofpel : fludy much the Gofpel, and the way of the Gofpel. The more you fee an Humble Chrifi , the more you will 'cam Humility : Wherenull you fee an humble Chriii, but in the Gorpell ? The more you fee a Self-denying Chriti, the moreyou will learn Self,denial : And where flail you reade of a Self- de- nying 71 2. 3-
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