Ver.4. Complaintsfruitleft and heatrlef to be avoided. occations of cooling, deadning, and Rifling Grace ? Do thefe things abound inyou ? Alafs you cannot do tbuc, you are fe w:ak, fo indifpofed , but alasyou will not, you will not part with your safe, you will not Crucifie your lufis, you will not ufe all dili- gence; but muff corne to it, or be contented to fpend all your dayes in darkpep, and to lye down in furrow. Thus do men frequently mifcarry ; Is it any news for per- fons to bewail the Lolly of their nature and wayes in the Morn- ing and Evening, and yet fcarceffand upon their watch any part of the day, or in any occafion of the day ? Is this giving all di- ligence ? Is this working out our Salvation with fear and trem- bling? And may we not fee Profet ors, even indulging to them- f.lves in wayes of Vanity, folly, wrath, envy, !loth and the like, and yet complain at what a lofs they are, how unquiet, how uncertai i. God forbid it thould be otherwife with you ; or that we thould endeavour to fpeak peace untoyou in any fuch a frame. To hear of a perfon, that he walks tlothfully, care- lefly , or indulgeth his corruptions, and to find him complain- ing that he is at lofs whether he have any intern in Pardon or nue, to give or tender Comfort to fuch mourners without a due Admonition of their duty to rife diligence in the ufc of means, for tohelp on their delivery out ofthe condition where- in they are, is to tender poifon unto them. To this then the foul mutt corne that is in depths, if it intend to be delivered. Heart/ell complaints, with excufes to keep it from vigorous 'primal diligence mu(} be laid afide ; ifnot, ordi- narily, Peace, Neff, and (lability will not be obtained. A great Example hereof we have in the Spoufe, Cant. 5. 2) 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, S. She is droufie and indifpotèd unto communion wish Chria, whereunto the is invited, v. 2. this puts her upon making excufes from the unfitnels of the time, and her pre- fent indifpofition and unpreparednefs as to the duty where- unto (he was called, v. 3. Hereupon Chriff withdraws his prefence from her, and leaves her at a lots as to her former comforts, v. 6, what courfe doth (he now take; doth the now lye down again in her former Slumber ? doth the make ufe of her former excufes and pretences, why the could not engage into the duties the was called unto ? :no fuch thing! but now with 313
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=