5 66 The Soules diduallea/lint toChrift. you, you (hail have this at the handof theLord; you (hall lie downe in forrow, and then you Thall repent you happily, and fling away your tinder box, and your carnali reafonings and imaginati- ons : this is the fecond cure. The thirdcure is this, be marvellous wary and 3 Cure. exceeding watchful] that you enter not intocon- tention withSatan upon there termes, whereup- on you cannot determine a controverfie: I can- not tell how to expreffe my felfe better. Enter not, l fay,into the liftsofdifpute with Satan,con- cerning thofe things which belongnot untoyou: as for example, IfI bee e1e ded, then I (hall bee faxed ; out I am not eleded, I have injoyed Gods ordinances, and lived under the precious means ofgrace and falvation, and they havenot wrought uponmy heart ; I perceive that God in- tends todoe no good untomy fotule,thereforeall my labor is in vain, when I have done;what I can, I (hall perifh. Sometimes aga&ne the foule faith, the day is pail, and the time is gone : Oh, the times ofgrace, and day es of mercy that I have feene, the Lordcame kindly tomy foule,and was pleafed gratioufly to reveale my fìnnes to my foule : but then hard hearted I, and ftubborne wretch I, I fhut the dooreagainft the Lord Jells Chrift, and nowmercy is gone, the day is over, the time is pail, and the funne is fer, there is now no hopeofinercy. Ifthedevil] catcha manupon theflifts, there isno determination ofthepoint, for upon this ground a man (hall never gaine an- fwer tohitnfelfe, hee (hall never gaine cafe to his con-
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