choice Bed of Spices. this affasrance is not from any great meafure of grace ; but though t be little in quantity, it may be great in affurance and fecurity. As we value an cornett, not for the worth that is in it felt, but becaufe it affures Pis of a great bargain ; we have an eye more to the confummation of the bargain, than to the quantity of the earneft ; fo it is here, grace is but an cornett : yet notwithlianding, though it be little, as an earned is, yet it is great in affurance and vali- dity, anfwerable to the relation of that it hath to .fure *J. Thoiigh grace he little, yet as little as it is,Peing it is an earneft, and the firti fruits (as the .lip file faith) which were but little in regard of the whole harvelt, yet it is of the nature of the whole, and there- upon it comes to fecure. A fpark of fire it but little, yet it is fire as well as the whole element of fire ; and a drop of water is but little, yet it is water as well as the whole Ocean. when a man is in a dark place, put the cafe it be in a dungeon, if he have but a 'ittle light fhining into him from a little crevice, that little light difcovers that the day is broke, that the Sun is rifen. Put the cafe here be but one grape on a Vine, it thews that it is a Vine, and that the Vine is not dead ; So put the cafe that there be but the ap- pearance of a little grace in a Chriflian, perhaps the Spirit of God appears but in one grace in him at that time, yet that one grace eiheweth that we are Vines, and not thifiles, or thorns or bate plants, and it fhews that there is life in the root. Thus you fee how fully this Reverend Doaor fpeaks to the cafe. That friend that writes the life and death of Mr. john Marc-oil once Preacher of the Gofpel at Dublin, faith, That in preparation for the Sup- per-Ordinance, he would bring himfelf unto the Tell, and to fay the truth, was very clear in the difcovering and making out his own condition, being well acquainted with the way of Gods dealin with the foul, and with the way of the fouls doling with Chri , In- fiance, April. 3. 1653. &pow fearch 1 find, a . My felf an undone creature. t. That the Lord ?efus Afficiently fats's/led au Mediator, the Law for fin. 3, That he is freely offered in the ofpel 4. So far as I know, my own heart, I do through Mercy heartily content, that he only mall be my Saviour, not my works' or7 duties, which I do only in obedience to him. S. If I ,know- my heart, I would be ruled by bis word and Spirit. Behold, in diem words (faith he that writes his life and death) the funs and rub- D 2, (lance See his TredciCel pnblifhed by Mr: IVinter,Mr.Chion be', Mr. Loon, Mr, Carry!, and Mr.2v/antort,pa.. i3 6)37.
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