ß. f Faith,: Duty to fub:nit thereunto, the Soul fears and lays the Suppoíition as David. --- If the Lord have no Pleafure in me, jet here am I. He puts the Cafe (tho' it was a Secret to him what the Lord fhould do with him) th_ at God /bould have no Pleafure in him ; and he in that Cafe fubmits, Let the Lord do as feefneth good, to him: So Both the Soul 'here. Mr. Firmin flares the (Lteflion unfavour- ably ; 'for he {lazes it thus, Whether quiet con tentednefs under thefe, 'noughts, that Clad will ne- ver give or manfef Grace, be a'Condition requi- t te to the Right Preparation of a Sinner, of the awakened Sinner for Chrift ?' For Mr. Pirrrtin fo {laces it, and maintains the Negative ; and fo, for ought I know, d°oth his Adverfary. The., Qieflion, if rightly Bared, w uld b this,Whether ân awakned Sinner plying fo le- times at Duties for Salvation, and finding irQ Help therefrom through, (ride, quarrelling with the Lord as unjuf[, for denying him Mercy, is not,io to be. isnnbled (and that ne- ceilarily, in Order to receiving$and finding o Mercy, u.nder Conviaion of God's Equity) fo as to fuhfcribe to the Lord's SeYtence, and under the Senfe thereof, fearing the VJoríf, quietly to ly at God's Feet without murmu-: ring, or taxing the :Lord with injuflice, iii cafe he fhould never ,fnew Mercy. Whether, .I fay, this Meafure of .Humiliation,. and this Sort of it be necefary in fueh a Cafe, in Or- der
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