552 The soutes effeiluall calling to Chrift. I Cure. derances, wé onely make them fo. Thereforewe will now come to the careofall theft., and thew howwee may take offthefe hinderances ifit bee poflïble, as in truth it is poifible; and not onely to remove thefe hinderances, but all other ofths kinde, quality and condition,ifyouwill attend to the means that shall be propounded, it is pofiible to cure them ; and the cures are thefe, whereby thefoule may bee fortified againft thefe, or paffe by, and leap over all thefe hinderances ; and not- withftandingall, goe toChrift in thepromife. The fitfl cure and helpe that I de fire to pro= pound is this, namelywe muff not looktoo long; the fouledifireffed and troubled fhould not fticke too long, and looke to) much, and dwell unwar- rantably and continually upon the fight and con- Tideration ofhis owne finnes, upon ais weaknef- fes. and diftempers, fo farte as tobee skated, and altogether difcouraged from comming to, and depending upon the riches of Gods free grace. The devil! keeps us in our finnes by poring cone tinnallyupon our finnes, whenwe thinke to have our hearts carried againftour corruptions, we are more intangled in our corruptions, by dwelling continually upon them. This was the courfe that Abraham Cooke, that was the Father of all the fairhfull : Rom. 4. 19. when God had promifed hire a fonne, and notonely a naturali fonne, but a fonne that fhould be a TypeofChrift, where- by heand all the fitithfull should be raved: Now this promife was made unto himwhen hee had a dead body, and Sarah a barren wombe ; he unable ro
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