Times of deferti- on and temptati- on, are rather times and feafons for mourning, watching, rettlin,,, and feeking of God,than for jud- gitg and deter- mining of our conditions. Pfal. 40. T. Pfaj. 77. Pfal. 88. Job 23.8, 9. Job 3.1.6. Dam g. Vacs g) Theff. 1. 7a it, t)10. A Box ofprecioss Ointment : Or, There are fame particular times and fealons in which tis no way fafe nor convenient for a Chriflian to enter upon the tryal ofhis Spiritual dive. As firft,when the body is great- ly difiempered. 2. When the Soul is greatly tempted by Satan, or fadlydeferted by God. 3. When the Confcience is fo deeply wounded by Lome great falls, as that the Soul is filled with exceeding great fear, terror and horror ; it is- with many poor Chriftians in this cafe, as it hath been with fame who have been fo Bruck with the fear and horror of death before the Judg, that though they were good Schollars and able to read any thing, yet fear and horror hath fo fur- prifed that'll, that when their lives have been at flake, and the Book hath been given them to read, 'they have 'not been able to read oneline, one word. So many of the precious fer- vants of ChFia, when tiley have been under wounds of Con- fcience, Atkd when they have been filled with fears, terrors and horn .04 they have not been able to look up to Heaven, n re heir evidences, nor turn to the brealls of the Pro- r call to mind their former experiences, nor be- hold th eaft glimpfe of Heavens glories, No man in his wits, if he were to weigh gold, would weigh it in the mida of high winds, great storms and .horrible rempeas, which would fo hurry the ballance up and down, this way and that, that it would be impoilible for him to weigh his gold exaolly. Now the tryalf our fpiritual eaates is like the weighing of gold, for we are all to weigh our feives by the ballance of the San.iary. CIO Vinfelf wig one claY Weighus by that . 'ballance,'-and if-We hold weight when he conies to weigh us, we are fafe and happy for ever : But when he comes to weigh us in the ballance of the Sanoluary, if we than then be found too light, it had been good for us we had never been born ; when Bet/h4z.,z,4r faw the hand-writing upon the wall, his countenance was changed, and higthoughts troubled, and the joynts of his loyns were loafed, an4his knees fmote one a.n ainft another ; but what was all this to an everlafting fe- paration from God, and to thole endlefs, eaflefs, and reme-- chiefs torments that fuch mull endure, who when they are weighed in the ballance, be found too light ? A man that
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