'i, 1' ,. \ , I · · kear~-n~tt/fo.re~ .. ,. ~j] time? yea bave wenot found_ it in Sctiptitre \ and experience that a dead and difcouraged _. entrance upon duty hath increaf~d to' fweec inlargemencs,and ravifllments of fpitit?fearch and fee, u{ually an heart ingagement (lath' en-– ded in an hcart-enfargement,and&cl-enjoy• ment : God wil bring an eogaged heart .!leer I him(elf, Jtr, 30. z 1. Noneever loft their la~ bQur in fitugling witht~eir untoward hearts:·. Oh Cl1rHlians, be fttre you be found in prayer though yo~ come, hardly to it; and hav~' I tnuh ado tokeep at it, and have more hazard– toget fometbing by it .• 1;hongbwith ]flfutiha,i · aud his atrriour·beater you clamber up the Hil doyour hands and knees, and fight vlhen · S'?U triottnt the eo~; yet you lhal g~t .th~ vi~ aory,· ~ng the (polls of fuch a conflt~· wtl be· the m;olf inriching. .: one Pifgah-fight of Chri!f in aptomife wil quit the coft, and hazarda ' . thou{and-fold i the evidence. .and advantage of fuch a performance wil be the befl, and worth all the refi ; yea foJ otigh~ I know though you ttieec ~Jot with God as you de!ire :it that - cim~, ,yec God may own and crown that undertaking as much as the mofi heart• melting exerdCe, becaufe there is mofi of o..; bedience in chat,- and confcienceof duty is a~ ~cceptable a motive·toduty aS fenfe ofpre~ fentrceo~pence. · But witbal,keep\tp acourfe~ of fecret pray.; er, with-draw your fclves ·into a corner. ac• . carding to the~tile, Mt~t. 6•. 6. God is wont to difpenCe bis choicefr blctftngs to {oliraryG ~ '~l ~ouls t. Wh:n I ilflb was l~t ~lone; ~eW~~:~ en.3 =s, 0 '
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