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Kule.r

in

feelZing

afar

Comfort.

I4I

f

ould

put them

upon thofe things

;

together

with the

free

Grace

of

the Gofpel,

he

will

prefent

Chriff,

as

whin-

to

rule

in the heart

,

as:well

as a

Ptteft

to

offer facri

ice;

and

this

will

breed goodblood,

therefore

be

folicitous about

the

)10-

ry of

God,

how

thou

fhouldeft

live

to

his

praife,

as

how

thou

fhouldeft

cone

to get

comfort

to

thy

fèlfe

;

For

o

herwitc,the

greedy

feeking of

comfort to

thy

[die

may

come

to

be

thy

undoing.

Fourthly

,

And then

farther, thou

mull

feek.for

Comfort

in

order unto Grace, rather

then

Grace

in

order

unto

Comfort

:

you

(hall

have thofe

that

vanith

and

come

to

nothing, in

their

feeking

for:

Gr

ace

,

they

only

feeke for

Grace that

they

may

have

Cordon-,

and

have

no

love

Grace

any

otherwaiesbut

becaufe

it

may

bring them

comfort

and eafe

to

their

Gonfci--

"ences

r

But

now

a

godly foúle

it

rather

Peeks

for

Comfort

for

the

furtherance of

Grace,

then

Grace

for

the

furtherance

of

Comfort

;

why,

why

woulde(t thou

have

Comfort,

why

by

that

meanes

I

hope

my

heart

will be more

inlarged for

God And

the more peace

I

give

to

my

ioule

,

the greater furtherance

will

this

be

to

the

Grace that

is

in my

foule,° and

the efóre

would

I

have

Comfort

;

But

an

hypocrite he

would have

C

race

becaufe he

can have

no

Comfort without'

it,;

That

the other

would

have

comfort,

becaufe elfe

Grace

would not

io

much

thrive

in

him;

*Fifthly

,

And

then

the

lift-rule

that I

would

give.

to

moan-

nets

is

this

;

If

thou

canitnotbe

able

to

exercife.

a Faith of,Af-

furance

,

try

what

thou

canft

doe

to

exercife

a

Faith

of Adhe-

rence,

and

that

thou mayeft

doe

at

any

time,

that

every

one

hath liberty

to

doe

:

you

will

fay

it's

onely Believ

.rs:

can

doe

this

But

thou

doeft

not

now

whether

there

be.fume

leede.of

Faith

that

is

begotten

in

thy

heart

already

.yea

'or

no;

And

therefore

let

thy Condition be the faddeff

that polibly

can

be

conceived. Thou

fayeft

that

thou

haft

been

euch

and

fuch, a

wretched

firmer,

well;

we

will

grant

it,

yeti

fay,

this

very

in-

Rant when-

thou lookeft.

upon

-thy

f

lfe as

fueh°a

vifd

fanner,

there's

nothing

to

the

contrarybutthat there

nay

be

a

putting

forth

ofthe Faith'of

Adherence

;

that

is,

the

_cafling

of thy

fettle:.