Heywood - Houston-Packer Collection BV4510.A2 H49 1667

HetlftJ1reafiire; ~ _-- ··.pofe to · you thefe Confipera~ions : , • If thy foul be yet without a trueu·ea– -.- ;£ure ,of a gracious Principle, thy condition is ·n1iferable , for ~hou hall: no affurance ·. _of any more me.ancs tO obtain it , nor ' tO live another day, ~to bear,another Sermon, or . ofGrace, to make.themeans effefrual for thy / fouls good : Remember Efa~ ;,haft thou ftood out folong, and dofi: thou now 'pre{umeup– on a--longer day? -.Mull the e~nh be forfaken for thee? and ·fhal God leave his ordinary _road to,do thee good, ·ftep afide to n1~e'c with thee ? God fometimes doth fo , bu~ what ground I1afi thou to expeCl: it, that haft abu· fed Grace {o long i · · 2. Is not ·this ·emptineife ofgoo&adread- .- ful fign of rejeCtion? S~lo.mon -faitb, He ,that - hafh a froward heart findeth nQ good-: nothing Pro.f 1 .::oo; doth him good , Word , nor Rod ; but he - ' faith, the heart Df the prudent getteth /z_nowledge; pro. I f~J~ maynot you fadlr fear judicial hardneif-~, to , ,· punHh wilful negligence I One-would ' have , : . - thought, if any good had been intended for you,· that you fhould have been poJleffed of , it before this: its a bbc~ brand of re'probati-, ._ ., on to live long under melting Ordinances, ., "' .. I I and be fiil hard anddead. . . ' 3•Wilful negletl: is an aa: of'·dif-ingenuicy to God, cruelty to.your own fouls, & the rea.. dyway tobanifhOrdinancesfrorn pofierity : , , What? Muft God alwaies ho1d you rh~ ... + ~andle ~9 ~lay by, wherefor~ uthere" price Pco.x~; I Jn the h4nd ofa fBol, when therlsno ·heart to im· . · . _pr9ve it? Be Cure~ if Satan finde .)'OU idle, he ' , f 3 wil .. , . I '

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