Of the Manner, is all this Time in a Secret, yet real and ftrong League) will :firft wither thy Joy, and at Death deftroy thy Hope. True Grace and the New Man arifeth out of the Death of the Old Man, or Sin. yei iv. 3. Col. i. 13. and ii. 3. Rom. vi. 3. Fiyl put of the Old Man, then put on the New ; while the Heart is in Love with Sin and the World, the News of a Saviour to fave from the Worldcannot be gladly received. Thy Mer- cy in this Cafe would be thy Burden : Sick therefore thou mutt be with the Works, Va- nity, Deceitfulnefs of thy own Heart, and Oppreilion of Sin, and then will the News of a Saviour to deliver from thefe not on- ly be believed, but believed gladly ; for they that are fick need the Phyfician. (2.) If thy whole Soul be come to Chrift, then not on- ly is thy Judgment cleared as to the Truth ofthe Gofpel, but thy Affehions are wrought upon likewife : Many are quench't with Rea- fon, but not with Love, and hence come, but feignedly, not with whole Heart. Hence comes a Man's IJnevennefs and In- conflat cy in his Way, hi , Judgment draws him one Way, and his .Affedions another : Hence come the great and frequent heart- Condemnings (the Preparative of God's E- ternal Condemnation) why ? Confcience leads one Way and Lusts another ; the Man is convinced., but his- Heart is not overcome and 6
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