3 24 Coxf'derat;oni tò fopport the. hearts of thole that hunger thou haft but a little thou ihalt not knoI,v,it fo fully,and fo have the.affurance in thy confcience; but it is as lure with God, Thou art as certainly translated from death to life, as if thou hac'l't the greateft degrees of all. Secondly, Where there are true delres, there the Lord looks upon thy ietperfeaions,not as thine,but as fin that dwel- lath in thee ; That's it the Af ofile faith, '7 is no longer 1, when I, eapref e. mighty delres after Grace, and found corruption; wrong, 'It is no longer 1, but lin that dwelleth in me; So I fay ro the foul thatis firong in the delres of it after grace, though there be many impetfe &ions remaining , the Lord doth not now look upon thy imperfe&ions fo much thine, as fin in thee, ,there is a twofold felfe .as it were, there's a fei£ corrupt, and a -felfeGrace ; his not but fin,- the Lord charges not the re- mainers of fin in the foul that hach thefe fühcere delires after the work of his - Grace. Thirdly, Further, So long as thy corruptions are in thee, and be thy fickne(fe (obferve it, for fodoth the foul that is,ii this cafe, find the remaining corruptions that are it it to be its ficknelfe) fo long as thou fndeft the want of this righteoufnefs to be thy ficknefle, know wthat it makes thy foul tobe.an object .ofGods pitty and compallìon,and not an obje& of Gods wrath 'and hatred:Here's the difference between the remaining part of fin that is in the Saints, and the corruptions in,the ungodly: The fin that is in ungodly men and, %yomen makes . their foules to be the obje& pf Gods wrath and hatred, for fo the Scrip- ture faith, The Lord hates :the .workers of iniquity, but the Saints that have any beginnings of Grace, though there be much unrighteoufneffe ílill inthe foule, this unri&hteoufhef e being thy fickneflè, it makes thy foule now not an obje& of Godswrath, but an oble& of his pitty and compaf ion: M your children, when they are lick and weake, do not you love them as well as when they are at the flrongeft and nmoft heal- thy, I appeale to any tender mother, fhe loves the child when it is in health, and can goe iap and dówne,.and fo can play with it,'but when the child is Fick, doth not her Bowels yearne to- wards the child then, whenits.fick and can do nothing for the mother
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