162 -i .thnon 3. yob's example, and from the Church's example, La- rrzent, 3. A fecond general Dire &ion is, That whether God cha- fife for fin or not, yet we would take a look of our own carriage, that we may fee what fin or fins we can find out, that might have been ground for him thus to quar- rel with us ; that fo we may repent of them, obtain his peace, and recover his favour and friendfhip, in refe- rence to thefe fins This lure cannot be any bad fruit, vhatfoever be the caufe from which it proceeds ; be- caufe, tho' God take not fuch narrow notice of our fin, yet it. well becomes us' to take filch notice of it. Ye fee, yob doth this, when he Pays to the Lord, Thou make rue to }pofefs the lint of my youth. We would look well to this, and let ourfelves ferioufly to have our peace made up again with God, and to come by the intimation of the pardon of thefe particular fins, that, if fo be our dark - nefs continue, we may have fome quietnefs of Confci- ence ; and this may alto be the way for winning to the other. It is lure very fuitable, that, when a perfon is in the dark as to Tome one particular duty, foberly to confider how often Confcience fpoke, and I took but little notice of it ; how little Confcience I made to pra- ¿ife clear duties ; and therefore I am juffly bemiffed, and in the dark, as to this ; this helps to humble. There are thefe three things we would have you to look back on, when we call you to refleE in inch a cafe on your ways ; t , Look back, and fee if there was not fomething amifs before that darknefs carne on, that might have pro- cured it, and drawn on this, as a chafifement of that: And here you would go back, if it were not only fome few years, but feven years, and mo too, and fee what fins, and fins againff light in particular, . ye have fallen in ; and how, when Confcience did challenge for the fame, ye took h it little notice of it : If, I fay, it were after (even years, yea thrice (even (as {ofepb's brethren were made to do) ye would call thefe fins, or that fin, again to mind. eddy, Look well if ye have been ferious in fearching out the mind of Confcience, and if ye have taken pains to ufe all means to get light. Ye want light, and it may be ye have not ftudied to be well acquainted with
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