ANIEWNIWIENNIC 228 Of the SubjeT never found any Thing of this thou cana not come to Chrift, thou art not yet takes off thy felf, off thine own Bottom, nor emp- tied of thine own Excellency.: Oh: There- fore labour, not only to know thy atual Sins, but to know thy woful, miferableState, that thou art a condemned Man, not on- ly finfull, but dead in l'refpajes and Sins, and canf not move one Step, but lyes bound in thy Chains, led as a miferable Captive at the Devils Pleafure. 5thly, Such as were never dead to the Law, I fuppofe, are neither fit for, nor can be married with Chrifl. Rom. vii. i. A Wo- man that is married cannot be married to another, till her Husband be dead ; fo whiles married to the Law, and till we be dead to the Law, and the Law to mss, we cannot be married to Chrif : For every Man is na- turally dead in Sins and Trefpages, and nei- ther fees, nor is fenfible of his Cafe. Now the Lord tryfis him with a powerful Mi niiry, and he is awakned to fee to his Cafe, and look about him : He therefore labours to mourn for his Sins,and leave' thetn,and to make Amends tó God forBygones,and this,he hopes, God will accept at his Hand : Hence, if he fails, he is difcouraged, but when he gets any Thing done, then he hopes. Now the Lord again difcovers to him, and expe- rimentally convinces him of his utter Ina- bility
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