A choke Bed of Spices. '129 riages. Certainly particular finnings are compatible with a gracious frame, though none are with a glorious eondition. Though no darknefs, no clouds can be mixt with the Sun in Heaven, <yet both may be in the Ayre which is enlightned below. Our belt cave on earth is mixt, and not abfolute. Glory annihilates all finful practices, gut Grace only weak- ens them ; the moR fincere-Chritlian is but an imperfeat Chrittian, and hath daily caufe to mourn over his infirmities, as well as he has caufe to blefs God for his Graces and mer- cies. Well Sirs ! Look as every particular Rain doth not blemifh the univerfal finenefs of the Cloth, fo neither cloth this or that particular fa6t difprove and deny the general bent of the heart ; particulars may not decide the eltate either way, 'cis true, a man by a particular-finning is denominated Guilty, busby no one particular can a mans Efate be chal- lenged, either for good or bad. He that (hall judg of a Chrittians eftate by particular a&s, though notorious bad, will certainly condemn the Generation of the Righteous. We mutt alwayes dittinguith betwixt fome fingle good acti- ons, and .a ferias of good actions. It is not this or that par- conitncoutic r titular good aCtion, but a continued courfe of holy Actions conclude (either that denominates us holy, certainly, as there is no man fo, holy, but fometimes he tails into this or that particular fin pocrite may do So there is no man fo wicked, bat fometimes he falls in with this or that particular duty) witnefs = Pharaoh, who in a fit,de' p3vdcon may dO and an upright fires 1141-es and .Aaron to pray for him and witnefs B aldans) me finful aa. who in a good mood defires to dye the 'death of the Righte- A eunitt fog, ous ; and witnefs Sam!, who under a pang condemns himfelf, or againit-himfelf and juttifies David. And fo witnefs Ahabs-humbling of him- according as the fell; and Nineveh't repenting, and F celir his trembling, and and temper of his habitual purpofe Herod' s hearing of jam Bap: gladly. Now look as every hcanitudsocca fin which a godly.man falls into (throughinfirrnity) cloth not prefently denominate him ungodly, fo neither will a few: aood actions done by a wicked man proVe him godly. 'Tis what the courfe and tenour of the life is, that mutt be motl 1. dili,gently and wifely obferved, for every man is as his courfe is; if his courfe be holyrthe Man is fo ; if his cdlifferbe wit ed, the man is wicked. Thefe is a Maxim in LogiCk;' aria that
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