A Choice Bed of Spices. 69 raife our hopes and our hearts to know that God is favoura- -ble, and that fin is pardonable, and that mercy is attainable, and Oat Hell is avoidable., is no fmall comfort to a poor doubting trembling Cnrillian.And as there is a great deal of grace aid mercy in Scripture peradventures ; fo there is a great deal of grace and favour in Scripture may-be's, as you may fee by comparing thefe Scriptures in the Margent to- sam, /4 e. 2.. gerlier. Now if Scripture-peradventures, and Scripture 2 Sam. i6. 12 2 Kings 19.4 may-be 's afford fo much fupporr, relief and comfort to Ila.37 4. your fouls as indeed they do, then doubtlefs probabilities of Ezck. 14 I,. grace, of an interefl in of going to Heaven, and of. Amos 1 5'. zeph.2 3. being caved, ought very much to fuppoit, relieve, chw, and lDan. 4- 27. comfort the hearts of all thofe that have fuch probabilities. A gracious foul may fay when he is lovvell and weakefl, Well) though I dare not (ay that I have Grace, yet I have a peradventure for it ;- and though I dare not ' I cannot fay I have an intereg in Cirift, yet if 1 have a may -be for it, I ought to bear op bravely and comfortably ag,ginfi all fears .and doubts ; yea and to take the com- fortiand the fweet of all theft' titled probabilities of grace, of an interefl in C krill., and of being faxed, and of 411 the peradventures and may-be'S that are fcattered up and down in the Bookof God,and with Hannah, to walkup and down without a fad countenance) Sarn.,i. The Twelfth Maxim or Confideration. Tweifthiy, Confider that tis a Chrif'cians greatea. 1 2, dom and highefi concernment, to take the molt com- modious time for the calling up of his fpirithal accounts : If I would know what I am worth for another World, and what I have to thew for the inheritance of the Saints!in light)) then I am to take my heart when xis at bell, and when am moll divinely prepared ant for this great fervice, then to enter Upon it Tis no wifclom for a man to go'to --fee. his, face in troubled waters, or talook for a Pearl-1n a puddle.- There
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