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Cí7totime!
is
perfzvaadev.r
to b
&fien
our
repentance.
397
that
God
will at
that
time
fupplie
all
our
wants and giue
vnto
vs
all
his fpirituall
armour
whereby
wee may
bee de-
fended
and
Satan repalfed,
wee
are
to know that
God
v-
feth
not
to
giue
his heauenlie
and fpirituall graces
at the
houre
of
death
to thole,
who
haue contemned
them
all
their
life
;
or
if
hee
doe beflow them
vpon
any,
it
is
ordinarilie
by meanes
which
hee
bath ordained for
this purpofe,
as
the hearing
ofthe
word,
harkie
prayer,
holie conferences,
and
fuch
Pike
fpirituall
exercifes
:
now let
it be granted
that
we may haue
at
fuch
times
of
our tnortall fickneffes,Gods
Minifers,and
all
other outward
helpes
to
further
vs,
in
per
-
forming
of
thefe
duties(which yet
a
iotwithftanding
no man
can promife
to
himfelfe)yet
how
unfit
is
any man in
this cafe
for
the
effe6tuall
doing
of
thefe holy
exercifes,
when
as
his
body
is
full
ofpaine,and
his
mind
full
ofanguifh,partly fea-
f
ug
Gods
judgements and eternall damnation,partly
being
grieued
withthe
loffe
ofall
his
delights,
andbecaufe hee
is
to
part
with
his friends,partly
being troubled
and
diffra6led
with
difpofing
of
his
worldly
efiate
and
fetting
all
things in
order;
and when
to
all
thefe incumbrances
there
is
added
Satans
dangerous
temptations, who
then
mof}
violently
of
faultetb, and molt
fubtilely vndermineth
vs
that
hee
may
worke
our
finall
deflruelion
?
And therefore feeing our
con
-
uerfion
in
the time
of
our
fickneffe
is
fo
hard and
difficult,
(I
had
altnofl
faid
defperate,)
let
vs
whilelt the Lord
giueth
vs
the outward
meanes
ofour
conuerfion,and
withal'
the
vfe
of
our
fenfes,
vnderflandings,
and memories,(all
which
when
wee
are
grieuouflie
ficke,
are alwaies exceedinglie
weak
tied, and
fometim
quite ouerthrowne) let
vs
(I
fay)
vnfai-
nedly
turne vnto
the
Lord
by vnfained repentance
in
the
time
ofour
health,and
irength,and
not by
our delaies,
ha-
7a:rd
and
defperately
indanger
the
eternall faluation
ofour
foules for
the inioying
ofthe
tranfitorie
trifles
and
-vaine
de-
lights
of
this miferable world...