S a c r'i IX. ofConmerfçn; ár Turning unti, Gxt. 49á Pink, Itfuppofetbgrief and trouble in the heart: The partsof a mans flefh can- not be rent or torn afunder, but it muff he with great forrow And thus it is with the heart of a trueconvert, be findes much fpiritual trouble and grief up- on hisfoul ; his foul is rentand torn intomany fad dividing thoughts, between hope fear, between faith and defpair, between joy and grief; asyou may fee in Davids Pfalms, fuck contraryaffeétions working on him, that his heart feemethtobe like thefea, when contrary winds blow upon ir : Oh then this argueth, that manymenhave never been in thefefpiritual deeps, and to feel the wondrous works of Godupon them ; they havenever faid to their fins,as Pan/ to his weeping friends, why doye breakjny heart ? They have never raid, O how is myheart torn in pieces 1 There have been bodily punifhmentsfor hainous crimes, when the Malefaftors have been torn in pieces,,limb by limb, by wilde horfes; this mutt needs beexquifit,e torment, yet this bath been born ; But WoundedfpirirWho can bear? Thefe tearings and divifions of heart, when fin in all the guilt and aggravations of it, is laid upon the confcience, who could in, dure,did not Godfupport in thefe agonies ? Secondly, It implyeth, violenceoffered to the kart : Evenas a garment rent, or our flefh rent, it is even by a violent motion ; and fo it is here, in converfion there is an holy and mightyviolence offered unto our unregenerate part:To take that off from the finful objeets, it bath been fixed upon, is like keeping the greedydog off from the fweet blood be bath begun to fuck : Thus theScri- pture exprefleththework ofgodlinefs ,byfuch words as implyeth great violence and pain offered to thecarnal part in a man: Hence its called Crucif,ing the jlefh,Gal,4.24 Rom. 8.13.Gal, 3.5. There wasgreat violence and lingering mife- ry thepartycrucified was put unto ; and to we are called to-mortifiethe (infol lulls of the foul; fo that although there were no external tribulations in the way toheaven, though therewere no perfecutions, no troubles, yet that which is done upon thy heart, uponthy finful lofts, will make the way to heaven e ftraightandparrowway. Thereis a foul-Martyrdom, as well asa body-Martyr- . dour ; andwhich is more terrible for flefh and blood to undergo, is hard to tell. Nowonder then, if you fee men flick fo at converfion; O its an hell, its a torment to them ; Why ? the reafon is' plain , converfion is a real Purgatory ; they go through fire and water to be made clean ; they give themfelves to be . facrificed by grace : Gracewill not fpare any one dear fin or lull they have beep accuftomed unto. Its alfo no wonder if Gods childrenfinde it fo difficult, fo contrary to nature, to do anything gracioufly; for how can it be but painful tohang crucifiedupon the trots, as it were ? for thus; as Chrift dyed for fin, fó they dye to fin. Thirdly, Inrenting, there ìá a feparation anddubssiies of the heart, fram that to which it was once united : And herein lieth the very formal natureof rending,to make a violentdivilion of one part fromanother, fo that the nearunion is per- feedy difpolred ; efpecially this isfeen incontinuous bodies : And thus it is alto in fpiritual confederation; herein lieth the very proper and real notion ofa godly rending of heart, when ies wholly divided from thofe fins it did once cleaveunto ; This is true,that love cloth make the party loving; and the objeft, loved all one. Hence it is, that thebeliever joyned to Chrift, isfaid to bemade one fpirit, becaufe he cleavesas glue to the Lord : Thus chore thatconftantly follow fins, they are made one with fin and the Devil; when therefore they are truly converted, thencomes thisglorious feparation anddifunion; theyare no longer one, but:twain, now fin and they have no more unionor communion, as it were : And howbleffed is it to feparate thofe, whom notGod, but theDe- vil bath joyned together. fourthly, This implyeth impatient, offpirit, as orar being able to hear, fee, or 4. bear fin : It fuppcfeth an extraordinary and raifed apprehénfion of tome dread- ful evil beforeus: Thus the High Prieft did, when bethought Chrift fpake ttrr a hlafphemy
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