1 54 The Soule,:effedmetacallingtoChritt. thou adamned loft foule?goe to thepromife,there is falvation toCave thee. Art thou a pollutedfoule? goe to the promife, there is grace to purge thee. Doe yonfee your finnes, and feele theburthenof tlym ? Oh away to the promife, there is abun- danceofcomfort in theLordJefus Chrift: there. fore let de firebe going and feeking upanddown, and never retornetill it bring the. Lord Jefus to me to the foule. Motive 2, Secondly, as there is a fitneffe in that promife foCurable to all amans wants, and this fitneffe in that promife marvelloufly flints up delire after it : So thebeautyand excellencyofthat fitneffe gives full fatisfaCtionto the delire 5 asit is witha man that bath an old cankered wound, which puts him to dayly trouble and vexation 5 if this man fbould heare of Come fpeciall falve that would forthwith take awayhis pain,andcafe him5 and withall would take out the dead flefh, and healehimperfeetly, how would this man delire that falve? nay nothing would content himbut that. So it is with the freenes ofGods grace,erai- er the Word, Conference are verygood, and thou hall had an old cankered foule, and amayward peevilh fpirit, and thefe finfull loth fticke up on thee, and are frill vexing of thee, and there are not quite purged out : Oh, faith the foule, thefe old recourfes of bate corruptions are ever doggingof me. Now ifany bid this poore foule pray, and heare andufe themeans; yes, faith he, thefeare andgood; but I may pray, and Learel and receive theSacraments, and yet goe done
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