Exceeding Sinfidne; aSin. That good a gracious heart bath fomnctmes by affli8ions may incourag . him tube nwre iilit g togo into aflidionagain when God calls him to it, but ifa gracious heart fhould t p4.oa- tonallyby fm, yet this good cannot incourage him to fall into tin again, this were a defperate wickednefs if he fhould. Fifthly, A gracious heart maydefire ofCòd that he would not takeaway Affliction till it be fanaified, and that he would continue it till it be fan ified 5 but no man mayor ought to pray thus, Lord, continuemein this fin till lam hum- bled : thereforeyou fee there is abundance of difference betweenafflictionand fin, one hath a great deal of good annexed to it, andtheother hathnone at all. 5. Sin it is fo evil that it is not capable of any goodat all; theair though it be dark, vet it is capableof light; that were a difmal darknefs that were not capable of light to come to it : and that which is bitter, thoughnever fo bitter, yet it is capable of receiving that which will fweeten it : thatwhich is never fo venemous, yet is capable of filch things as will make it whol forn ; but fin is fodark that it is uncapable of light; fobitter, as there is noway tonake it fweet; fovenemous as it is no way capable ofany wholfomnefs : now for the clearingof this, confider there threeThings : s. Put all the good inheaven and earth, and in all the Creatures in heaven and earth toge- ther : Suppofe thequintifcence of all the good of all theCreatures of heaven and earth were -.77.11111
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