Roles rn feen,g fter 'Com fört. and_what a gulfe it is that he fhould be fwallowed up unto if be thould fall;this very looking were enough to mike him fall, but let him look right on co the thore,a* i go as carefully as-he can, and whenhe as got upon the fhore,then be may look back Safely, and bleffe God for his deliverance So i;. should: be with the heart that is affticied for fin : Thou art mourning, and tookefi upon it as a dreadful! gulfe that thou kit ready to b;. (wallowed 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 ofbrink) thou art to look on to the promife,to the Grace of God in the Gofpel that is tender'd unto thee , and when thou art got upon chore, and arc inabled to apply the promife of Grace, then thou mayeft look back to that dreadfull gaffe which thou waft ready to be fsvallowed up of, and thenblefíe Cod for it. And then a third'Rule in feeking 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 carefull about the Glory of God as about comfort to thy felfe We find this by experience, that many which are- aftlitked much for their En, they are altogether for Comfort,) that one would fpeak Comfort to them, and no word is acce' table unto them, except it bring comfort, and that immediately to them. But now in the mean time, they are little fencibte of the dif- honour that God bath had, or how God thouid 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 ditho- nour that my fin hath brought toGod, and how can that disho- nour be made up, O if I should live any further to the ditho- nour of this bleffed God, what fhould become of me , how much better had it been I had never been borne, then to live to the dishonour of that God 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 tip thy heart, and thou felicitous about thar,and becaufe thou cants T 2 fOt
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