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An
Enquiry
after
a mans
e
ate.
Nay more
Chen
fo;
Manyof
them who
feek
to
get into
a
good
efiate
miffe
of
it and
perifb.
See,
Lug
t
3.
24.
Strive
to
enter
in
at
the
firait
gate:Mark,it's
a
firait gate,and
letteth
but few
in
:for
many
(hall
feek
to
enter
in
and
fhallnot
be
able.
Here
and
there
a
few,
even
where
the confiant miniflery
is,
3.
3.
Confider
that
it
is
a
marvellous hard thing
to
pafie
from
Rate
unto !late, from
a
bad
unto
a
good
eftate. There
is a
ve-
ry
vafl
gulf between the fiate
of
finne
and the fiate
of
grace,
and it
is
marvellous hard
to
paffe
it.
Thefe
things premifed,
the
Ufes
follow,
Ube
r,
r.
This
point
may be
many ways
uleful
:
Firft, for
inftru-
Of
In-
aion.
If
God
had
made it pofïìble
unto
us
to
find
out
what
ítruii-
elate
every
one
of
us
is
in,
then
lure
he
would
have
us
go
a-
on.
bout it
and enquire
after
it.
God
might
have
left
us
to
perifh
It
is
every
in
our natural
blindnefie, never
to
have
known
in
what
cafe we
mans duty
had been,
untill
we
were paft recovery.
Firf,
we
are
all wande-
to
enquire
rers
from
God,
and
from
the
ways
of
peace,
and
therefore
after
his
God
might
jufily have fuffered
us
for
ever
to
have
wandred,
ef}ate.
and
never
to
have
been
able
to
find
out whether
we had
been
right or wrong.
Secondly,
God
hath dealt
fo
with
force
:
He
hath
lhfered
force
to
go on
all
their
days
blindfold
to
hell.
Thus
the Lord
dealt with the
Scribes
and
Pharifees.
Let
them
a-
lone,
faith
he,
they
be
blind
leaders
of
the
blind, and
if
the blind
Match,
x
5.
lead
the blind,
they
Will
both
fall
into the
ditch.
Ye
fee
the
Lord
r.
hath
dealt
fo
with
Tome;
and it
is
his
mercy he
hath
not
dealt
fo
with
us.
Sith
God hath
made
it
poflible
for
us
to
know,
it
is
our duty
to
enquire
after
it
:
And
that
yet further for
thefe
reafons,
Reafons.
r
.Firft,becaufe
the Lord commandeth it
:
Examine your
oWn
z.
Cor
15.
(elves
whether
ye be in the
faith,
prove your
(elves
:
know ye not
your oWn[
elves
hoW
that 7efusChriil
is
in
you,except
ye be
repro-
bates?
Vv
here
you
fee
the
Apoffle
commandeth
the duty
of
felf-
trial;
And confider how
he
preflèth it upon
us
: r
.
Do
ye
not
le
oW
what
efiate you
are in?
then
examine
and enquire,.
2.
Do
ye think. you
are
M
a
good
eft
ate I
look,
ye prove
it,
and
be
Are
you
be
not
in an
errour.
Do
ye
object ye
do
not know,
neither
can