+------ Z1er4. Waiting ssece, Bail to obtain Peace. 293 r, to dye for Chrtft. Death unto men who taw not one ttcp beyond it, was efleemed ofall things moft terrible. The way and means of its approach add unto its terrour. But this is nothing in comparifon of what it is unto them who look through it as a paffage into enfuing Eternity. For a man then tocbuf death rather than life, in the moti terrible manger of its approach, expe6fing an Eternity to cnfue, it argues a comfort- able perfwafy n of a Good State and Condition after death. Now I ampet [waded that there are bundreds,who uponGofpcl facing accounts would embrace a "fake for the TeJfimony of jefus, who yet know not at all that they have the Affiùrance we f peakof,and yet nothing elfe would enable them thereunto. Eut thefe things being betides the main of my Intendment , 1< fhail purfue them no further, only the Kyle is of ufe. Let the foul be Care to be well acquainted with the nature of that which it fèeks after, and conftffeth a fenfe of the want of. R ULE III. Continuance in waiting necefrary unto Peace and Confclation.. The fourth Remove the Hinderances of Believing by a fearching out offin. Ru1r's and Directions for that Duty. Whatever your Condition be, and your Apprehenfion of it yet Waiting continue waiting for a better iffue, andgive not over through twea neceiLry rinefl or impatience. This Rule contains the fumm of the Great to obtain Ex,amplr given us in this .Palm. Forgivenefs in God being dif- Peace. covered, though no fenfe ofa particular intereff therein as yet obtained ; that which the foul applies it Elf unto, is diligent, careful], conffant, perfevering waiting., which is varioufly ex-. preffed in the 5, and 6, verfs. The Holy Ghoíi tells us, that light if fown for the right eoiØ,andgladne fsfor the upright in heart, Pfal. 97. r r. Light and Gladnets are the things now enquired -after. Deliverance from darknefs, miifapprehenfions of God, hard and rnifgiving thoughts of his own condition, is that which a foul in its depths reacheth towards. Now, faith the Holy Ghofl, Thefe things are fangfor the Righteous. Doth the Husbandman after he catis his feed into the Earth, immediately pp 2 the tt:
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=