Alat Gofel-CanverfRtion. beleeve this, and yet fhall I rather chufe the commifhonof a fin than the bearingofany. afflietion ? Oh this is infinitly unbefee- ming theGofpel ofJefus Chrift : do I beleeve this, and is it re- all upon my foul ? Oh let me then manifeftin my whol courfe and life that I tremble at the very thought ofa fin at the appea- rance ofevil, and am as mach afraidof the lean (park oflufts as ofthe fire of Hell : let me difcover the temptation to fn,that I may endeavor to avoid all temptations to fin, becaufe God bathgiven fuch a teftimony from Heaven againft fin, Oh it is a loud teftimony indeed that God hath given from heaven againft fin in the death ofhis Son, Oh then let my Converfation be fuch as I may make it appear that I am afraid of the beginnings of 1n, of the firlt whifpering and motions to fin, Oh let me not ftand dandling of fin in my thoughts, and rout it as a fweet morfel under my tongue, let me not entertain it in my affecîi- ons in the leaft degree, as to love it, to approve it, to delight in it, but as foon as ever it enters into thy heart call it out prefent- ly, let, it not lodge within thy doors one moment, raife up all the power of thy foul againft it, follow it with Hue and Cry, till thou haft overtaken it, and then do juftice and judgment upon it, what though it may be a Dalilah, yet cut it off; Oh let me take heed of lying in any fin, haveI binovertaken in my fin ? Oh let me be willing rather to flume and condemn my felf, to deny any thing in the world rather than to continue in that fin, the Lord forbid that if I have been once drawn to any fin, that I fhould think to cover it by anotherfin, by adding one fin to another, to think to fhift for my credit or efteem by adding more fin to that already, committed, Oh no, the Lord in his mercie hath made known unto me in the Gofpel ofChrift what fin means, the evil of fin, and therefore I have learned ra- ther to endure any thing than to multiply iniquity; Indeed before I came to underftand Jefus Chrift, I thought fin was an evil thing, and I abflain'd from grofs fins by that dim light of Nature that is within me ; but time I came to underftand the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift, the great myftery of godlinefs in his Son,and the dealingsof theFather with his = Son,the Lord knows now I abhor a fin in fecret (though I were fuse no body in the world fhouldever know it) more than Ido abhor Hell its feif ; N 2 I fuch 3-
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