C. XVl.Counfell
of
the
H.G, to
Believers
confluent
with
the D.
of
S.P.
384 ready often
to thinke
that
your
way
is
paffed
over
form me, and your
Judg-
ment
hidden from your God
:
And in this Condition, I know
the
Aflàults,
Temptations,
and Oppofitions
of
Sathan
that
you
are expofed
to,
how he
goes up
and downe like a roaring
Lion feeking
to
deftroy you,
his
wayes,Me-
thods
,
wiles
and
baits
(that
he
layes for
you,
and
whereby he
feekes
to
de-
{troy
you) are
many, he
a&s
againít you
as
a
Serpent fubtilly and
wifely;
as
a
Lyon dreadfully
and
fearefully,
and
with fnares
not ofyou,
by
your
felves
to
be
refilled: you have Principallityes,
and
Powers
to
wreftle withal!, and
the
darts
of
the
wicked one
to
defend your
felves
againft, Wherefore beware
of
him,
be not ignorant
of
his
devices, Rand fait
in
the
Faith,
take
to
you
the
whole armour
of
God,
refift
him, overcome
him, call
him
out
by prayer, and
the
blood
of
the
Lambe,
watch night and
day
that
you be
not
furprifed
nor
feduced
(as
Eve
was)by
him,that
he
turne
you not out
of
the
way
into pathes
leading
to
deftru
&ion,
and
thruft
you headlong into
fuch
Gnnes as
will
be
difbonour to me,
a
griefe
to
my Spirit
a
fcaudall
to
the Church, and bitter-
neffe
to
your
owne
foules5
And
as
for
me, who know your
difabiliry
of
your
felves
to
do
any
ofthefe
things, and
fo
to
hold
to
the
end, becaufe
it
pleated
me
to
love you, & fet
my
heart
upon you,having
chofen
you
before the
Foun-
dation
of
the world, that
you fbouldbe holy and unblameable before
me in
Love,&
having given
my only Sonne
unto you,who
is
your
peace
& through
whom you have received the
Attanement,
with whom
I will not deny
you
or
withhold from you
any
thing that
may fafeguard
your
abiding
with
me
unto
Salvation,
I
will
through the
riches
of
my
Grace, worke
all
your
workes
for
you, fulfillingin you all the good pleafure ofmyGoodneffe &
the
worke
of
Faith with power,
.I
will
tread
down Sathan,
this cruel!,
proud,
Malicious,
bloudy enemy
of
your Souks,
under your
feet, and though
at
any
time
he foile you
yet
ye
fhall
not
be call down, for I
will
take
you
up,
and
will certainly preferve you
by
my
power,
to
the
end
ofyoür
hope, the Salva-
tion
of
your
foules
; whatever betide you, or befall you,
I will
never leave
you, nor
forfake you, the mountaines may depart and
the
hills
beremoved,
but
my kindneffe (hall never
be removed
from you,
comfort
ye,
be
of
good
courage,
and runne withjoy the race
that
is
let
before you.
This
(I
fay)
is
the language
which
according
to
the tenour
of
the
Do-
¿trine whole maintenance
we
are ingaged in, God
fpeakes
to
his
Saints
and
Believers,
and
iftherebe
folly and inconfiftency found
therein,
let
the
Scrip-
tures vindicateand
plead for themfelves.
Secondly, For
the
clofe
of
this Difcourfe
of
our Author,
charging this
courfe
of
proceedure with
folly;
viz.
To
give admonition
to the
ufe
of
meanes,when
the
end
is
certainely
determined to
iffue
upon the
ufe
of
thofe
meanes,he muff
firft
evince
it
as
to
the
application
of
it
to
the
bufineffe
in
hand,before I
can clofe with him in
the
managing thereof.
for
the prefent
I
ra-
ther
thinkthe
folly
of
this
charge,
as
far
as
it
lookes
towards the
Doarine un-
der
confederation
to
arife
from
other
things.
As
Firft,
An Impertinent
comparifon
inflituted between God and
man
in
their
Admonitions and dealings with men;
as.
though
nothing
might
befeeme him
in
Spirituali
things
of
eternali
concernement
,
but
what
is
fquared to
the
rules
ofour
proceedings one
towards
another,
in things
Natural!
or
Ci-
vil!. And
Secondly,
A
falle
fuppoftall
that
the
end
is
promifed and
affured
to
any,
without
or
betides
the
ufe
of
:wanes,
or
walking according
to
the rules, pre-
cepts,and inflru
&ions
given for
that
purpofe,or
for
Attainement
of
the
end
fo
promifed. Now what folly there
is
to
charge men
to
ufe
means for the attai-
ning
of
an end,whenthey
are,although Exhorted,alfo
Mitred,
that
in
their
fo
doing