24 Thatle may beable toRand are acceffary may be feparated from the other, as the raging of the fee, which is caufed by the winde from the lea, when the winde is down. From this diftmdion take two Conclu- lions. L. Fel, one may fall fhort of an hypocrite in the terrours that fometimes accompany forrow, and yet have the truth of this grace, which the other with all his terrours wants. Chriflians run into many miftakes, by judging rasher according to that which is acceffary, then that which is effenrial to the nature of duties and graces. Sometimes thou hearefi one pray with a mo- ving expreffion (while thou canft hardly get out a few broken words in duty, and thou art ready to accufe thy felt and to ad- mire him ; as if the gilt of the Key made it open the door the better; thou feta another abound with joy which thou wanteft, andart ready to conclude his grace more and thine leffe, whereas thoumayeft have more real grace, only thou wanteft a light to thew thee where it lies. Take heed of judging by acceffaries, perhaps thou haft not heard fo much of the ratting of the chains ofhell, nor in thy will-time the out-cries of the damned, to make thy fiefh tremble, but haft thou not lien that in a bleeding Chrift which frith made thy heart melt and mourn; yea, loath and hate thy tufts more then the devil himfelf? Truly (Chrifli- an) ltrange, to hear a Patient complain of his Phyfician, (when he findes his Phyfick, work effectually, to the evacuating of his diftemperecl humours, and the reftoringhis health) meer- ly becaufe he was not fo fidt as fome others with the workingof it; fiite, thou haft more reafon to be blefling God that the convictions of his Spirit wrought fo kindly on thee, to effed that in thee, without thofe terrours which have coft others fo dear. Secondly,this-h. fo weak an argument,that contrariwirethe more the terrours are,the leffe the farrow is for fin while they remains Thefe are indeed preparatory fometimes to forrow, they, go be. fore this grace, as auftere johnbefore meek 74-w. But as phis went down whenChrift wentup, his inc,eafe wasJohns decreafe; fo as true godly forrowgoes up, thefe terroursgoclown. As the winde gathers theclouds, but thole clouds feldom melt into a let rain, until the winde falls that gathered them : ±o thefe ter- rours,raife the clouds of our fins in Wir corkicnces, but;when there
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