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Comforts
argainft
our
flog
progref
in
fanífification.
Thou
labourefl
much
(will
he
fay)
and toylefl thy
felfe
with
ihtollerable
paines
that
thou
maiefi
become
a
fanólified man,
but
all
in vaine
;
for
though thouhearefl
the
word
often,
and readefl much,
and
praycfl
continually,
and
beatefl
thy
brames
with
daylie care,
to the
end
that thou
mayeft
at..
mine
unto
borne perfeC`li6
in
Chriflianitie;yet,doefl thou not
fee
how little thou
profitefl
by
all
thy
laboures, feeing
thy
knowledge
is
flill
finali,
thy faith weake, thy
charitie
cold,
thy
heart
dull
and
hard, thy good
workes
few and
imper-
fe61,
and
all
thy zealous refolutions
eafilie
hindred,and quite
ouerthrowne with
euery
finali
temptation
?
Why
then doeft
.
thou
flriue
againfl the flreame, and undertake
a
taske which
is
to
thee,
not
onely hard,
but
euen impoffible
?
For do what
thou
canfl,
yet
all
will be
to little
purpofe, feeing this worke
is full
of
great
difficulties,
thy
felfe
difabled
with manifold
corruptions,
and thy enemies which oppofeagainfl thee ex-
ceeding ilrong
and
mightie,
as
thy
felfe
findefl
by lamen.
table
experience, and
thy
much
labouring
and
little
profi-
ting,
doe
clearly
proouc.
Ceafe
therefore thy
bootlefhe
tra-
uaile, and
rather
imbrace
thy
pleafing
delights, then tur-
moyle thy
felfe
with
vaine
labour.
§.Sec7.2.
For
the anfwering
ofwhich
temptation
we
are
to
know,
That
the
dir
that
ifwe
diflike
our owne
dulneffe
and backwardnes
in
pro-
iikeof
ou
dui-
fiting and growing
forward
in
fan6lification;
ifwe
be truely
nawnrdnee
forrowfull
and
bewaile our
great
wants and
imperfeaions,
is
accepted
and
labour
earneflly in
the
vfe
of
the
meanes
whereby wee
of
God.
may
attaine vnto knowledge, faith,
and all
other
fanShify-
ing
graces, and alto be enabled to
bring
forth
the fruites
of
holy obedience;
then
are we accepted
ofGod,
and
fhall
in
the
end
moll
certainely obtaine our
defire,
though
yet wee
can
fee
but
finali
profit
ofall
our
laboures; neither
(hall
all
the
power
of
ourfpirituall
enemies
fo
farre preuaile againfi
vs,
as
vtterly to hinder
vs
in this
worke,
but
that
wee
Thal
vn-
doubtedly goe forward,although
not
fo
fpeedilie
as
wee
de.
fire.
For this holy
defire
of
profiting
in
godlinefle, this
in
deuour and
carefull
vfe
ofthofe
meanes
which
are
ordained
by
God
for this purpofe,
are
not
naturall, but the
worke
of
Gods
fpirit begun in vs; and
we-are
with the
Apoflle
to
beé
perfvadcd