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Meister
to
pert
vade
vs
to
hall
en
our
repentance.
40
t
when
as
we
are
fure
that
we
are
now
friends
before
we
were
enemies and
children
of
God,
and
heires
ofhis
euerla-
fling
kingdome
ofglory,who
in
time part were children
of
wrath,and
fire-
brands ofhelI?
What
comfort
in
the
world
can bee
imagined like vnto the confolation
of
Gods
fpirir,
which
is
able
to
make
all
affii
&ions
light,
and
euen
death
it
felfe
fweet and pleafant vnto
vs?
but
this ioy,peace,and
com-
fort do
all accompanie
our true
conuerfion
vnto
God,
and
therefore who would
deferre
it
for
one
day, feeing
it
brin-
geth
fuch
ineflimable benefits and
fuch
furpaflìng pleafures,
as
none
fufficiently
vnderftand
them, but theywho
fede
and
inioythem
?Whereas on
the other fide,
ifwe
deferre our
con-
uerfion, in the meane while wee
are
continuallie
fubiea to
the
checks
and
terrors-of
art
euill confcience, in
feare
of
Gods
iudgetñents,
and eternall
damnation
:
and
though in
outward
Thew
wee
may be exceeding
merrie
and pleafant,
yet our mirth
is
full
of
forrow, and our
ioy
of
bitterneffe,
and
of
f
uch
laughter
wee
may
fay,thou
art
madde,
and
o
f
this
ioy,
tvhat
is
that
Which
thou
doeft
?
is
the Wife
man
fpeaketh,
Ec-
def..2.2.
for
it
is
but
Sardonicru
rifiu,
laughter
from the
teeth
Ecclerz.;
outWard,which
is
ftraight cótrolled with
fome
inward pang
órchecke
of
confcience.
Fourthly, the
fooner wee turne
vn-
to
the
Lord
,
the
longer
time wee íhall
fpend
in
his feruice,
which
in
truth
isperfea
libertie
:
now
what
can 'bee
more
delightful) vnto any Chriflian heart,then
to
ferue
our
Crea..
tour
from
the
.daies
of
our
youth, and to
Thew
our
thank
-
fulneffe
to God our
redeemer for
all
the ineflimable bene-
fits
which he
hath bellowed
upon vs,
by
caufing
our
lights
to
fhinebefore men,and by
glorifying
his name in our
god
-
lie
and Chriflian
liues?what can
be
more pleafing
to
a
thank
-
full
mind,then to take
all occafions
ofexpref
ing
thankful
-
neffe
to
hiin,vnto
whom wee
are
fo
much
bounden
?
Lail-
ly,
as
by our fpeedie conuerfion
vnto
God
we liue in
fweet
comfortandioyfull
peace,fo alto wee fecurelie expe&
death,
and
giue
it
entertainement when
it
commeth with
cheere-
full
countenance:
for
being
-
concerted
vntoGod,we
are
at
,:peace
with
him and his loue
and fauour, wee are
affured
that
the
çurfe
ofth:e law
is
hailed
to
Chrifls
croffe,
that
hee
D.:d
was