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Railes
`rtt
fee%ing
*far
Comfort;
and_what
a
gulfe
it
is
that
he
should be fwallowed up unto
if
he should fail;this
very-
looking were enough
to
make him fall,
but let
him
look
right
on
to the
íhore,au
i
go
as
carefully
as
he
can,
and
when
he
is
090E
upon
the fhore,then
he
may look
back
Safely, and
blef
e
God
for his
deliverance
:
So
ir should
be
with
the
heart that
is
aflicied
for fin
:
Thou
art
mourning,
and
lookeft
upon
it
as
a
dreadful'
gulfe
that thou
'act
ready to
be.
swallowed
up
of
;
thou art poreing
upon
that
now
that
may in-
danger thee to be
(wallowed up
of
it;
But
the
truth
is, when
thou art
upon this
brinke,
(
for
the
work
of Repentance it
is
a
-kind
of brink) thou
art to
look on
to
the promife,to
the Grace
of God
in the
GoCpel
that
is
tender'd
unto thee ,
and when
thou
art
got
upon
Chore,
and
art inabled
to
apply
thepromife
of
Grace, then
thou mayeft look back
to that dreadful! gulfe
which thou
waft
ready
to be
fwallowed up
of,
and
then
blefle
Cod
for
ir.
And then
a
third Rule
in
Peeking
after Comfort
is
this, Be
not more
folicitous about
getting Comfort to thy
felfe
,
then
about the
Glory of
God,
even when thou art mourning
for fin,
labour
to get
thy
heart to this
frame
,
to
be.
as
folicitous and
careful! about
the Glory
of
God
as
about
comfort
to
thy felt.;
We
find
this by experience, that
many which
are aftliòted
much for
their
fin,
they
are
altogether
for
Comfort,
o
that
one
Gould
fpeak
Comfort to them,
and
no word
is
acce
stable
un`.o
them,
except
it
bring comfort, and
thatimnediately
to
them.
But
now in
the meane
time,
they
are
little
fencible
of
the dif-
honour
that God
hath
had,
or
bow
God
should
have
honour
:
whereas the heart that
is
rightly wrought upon;when
it
appre-
hends
the
evill of
fin,
it
is as
well taken up thus
,
O
the disho-
nour
that
my
fin
bath brought
toGod,
and how can
that diiho-
nour be made up,
O if
I
should live
any
further to the disho-
nour
of this
blelìed
God,
what should
become of
,me
,
how
much
better
had
it
been
I-
had never been
borne, then
to
live
to
the
dühonour of that
Cod
that
now
I
fee
to
be fobleffed
in
himfelfe, and
fo
infinitely worthy
of
all
honour
from
his
crea-
tures.
I
this
is
good when
the
honour
of God
takes up
thy
heart,
and
thou
art
Colicitous
about that,and becaufe thou
cant
T
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not