13Q Ob,., Ant:. GoJpel Remfsion. fit down in this way , but know that molt defperate pride may be under it, and Rand with fuch difcouragements. We know the molt proud fpirits may be the molt difcouraged fpirits , as the Devil, the Scripture fets him forth to be as proud as Lucifer, yet none fo proud as fpirits under fuch dif- couragements : there may be much pride in difcouragements , therefore take heed left there be any fecret, pleating of your felves this way, though you be in fame trouble, yet, if you feel there is a fecret pleafure in that fmart that falls upon you and fome kind of contentedhefs in going your own way, as many men though they meet with abundance cf Croff:s, yet if they go their own way, it pleafes them much ; take heed, there may be defperate pride at the bottom of all this. If this be todijhonour the pardoninggrace of God?tivhat would you have rzs to do ? (We would not (peak it, were it not fo, to what end is it for us to Rudy, and pray to God for light and help to open the grace of God, ifa little difcouragement of heart and fullennefs of Spirit, íhall turn ,all afide, and make all that we fay to be of none effe& : therefore great reafon there isthat we íhould tell you this is a great dithonouring of the pardoning grace of Ged :) but what, would you have us todoubt no more, Eut go on and perfwade our hearts our fins are pardoned and there's an end ? No,ifIfhouldfayyou could do this, it wouldbe in vain for me to by all this, for it is not in your power to cafe off all fears of Gods anger, and prefently perfwade your felves your fins are pardoned ; this is not in your power to do : and therefore this is not the thing I put you upon, it muff be the mighty work of God ; in the 2. of Ez.ech._ when the Prophet lad done in the end of the r. Chap. the next verfe of the 2. Chap. he fays, Son ofManfiandcapon thy feet, but that was not enough to raife the Prophet, no not for God himfelf to faySonofMan landupon thyfeet, but together with the voice of God, verfe the 2._ there enters into him the Spirit of God, and fets him on his feet ; fo it is with the Minifters of The Word, we fpeak to fouls that are cart down under the burden of their fins, to fair up therrrfelves that they may riot. always,
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