The Soules effeUualdiallinn to Chrift. barren wretched hearts , but attend upon Gods promif , andyou fhafl findeGods Spirit wítnefii unto you the acceptanceof your pe rfons before God. Butyou will fay, maynot a man confider ofobNetf. bis fins,and attend to the corruptions ofcur owne hearts. I anfwer, a manmay, nay muff, in a fit time; 4nfw4', after a right rnanner,to a good end, for he thatne- verTeeth his fins, cannever behumbled for them, but this confideration only fits us for mercie, and cannever get affurance ofany interefl inmercie. The confideration ofour fins, will give us no- tice of there three particulars : i. It gives us no- I riceof our owne vileneffe and baèneffe, the lay- ing thefe upon the foule, it is a maine meanes to breake the heart, and bruife a filthy fiubborne foule. It gives us notice of the emptineffe and infir- 2 mity of all outward parts, and gifts, and mcanesy and helpes todoeus anygood. It will make usfee the abfolute neceflity of a 3 Saviour, and of thegreat worke of redempt:on; which Chriff Lath wrought for us ; nay, it will driveus out of our felves, and force us to fall at the foot-ftoole of Gods mercy, that fo wee may gaine Gods favour tous : but it is impoflibl . that the confiderationofmy fins, fhould certifeme e of- my intereít in Gods mercy. Labour to 'bee informed, andtouncles-fiend 'a- 3.Me.rner. right the language of. the Spirit. Looke as it is with a.poore.man in the Court, a wife witneffe 0, 3 comes Ios
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