Ver.4. to be improved. 319 alwaies fluctuate up and down in generals and uncertainties ; but drive things unto aparticular tfue,that it may be tryed whe- ther it beof fuflicient efficacy tokeep you in your prefcnt en- tanglements and defpondencies. Search outyour wound, that it may be tryed whether it be curable or no. Now in this cafe we cannot expert that perfons .should fug- gett their owà7 particular concerns, that fo they might be conti- dcred and be brought unto the Rule ; but we muft our felves reduce fuch dittreffes, as may, or do in this matter befall the minds of men, unto fame General heads, and give a Judgement concerning them according to the Word of Troth. Indeed particular cafes as varied by circumttances are end9efs ; nor can they be fpoken unto in this way ofInffrutlíon and Direction, but theymutt be left unto occational confiderations of them, as they are reprcfented unto them who are entrufted to difpenfe the rnyfterics of God. Betides, many have laboured already in thin matter, and their endeavours arc in, and ofgeneral ufe. Although it muff be laid, as was before obferved, that fyecial cafes are fo varied by their Circumfrances, that it is very rare that any Refolutions of them are every way adequate, and fuited unto the Apprehenfions ofthem that are exercifed with them. I thall therefore call things unto fomegeneral beads whereunto moll of the Objetlions that diffre ffed finnerr make againtt their own peace, may be reduced ; and leave the Light ofthem to be applied in particular unto the reliefof the foulsofinen, as God ¡hall be pleafed tomake them effeetual. Second General Headofthe Application of the Truth infi/iedon: Groundsof SpiritualDifquietments confidered. The ffrtf ; Af_ flit2ions. ¡Vales andmeans of the Aggravation of Afffitlions. Rules about them. That which now lyethbefore us, is the recordpart of the fe- cond GerundVfe educed from the Truthmulled on. Our aim . is to lead on fouls towards peace with God, through a gracious perfwafion of their Interelt in that forgivenefs which is with him. And it confitis, as was declared,in a Confideration ofComte Oftholedifquietments which befall the minds ofmen, and keep them offfrom.Ejtabli,T,ment in thismatter, Sf3 And.
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