Nature and Can es Pfa1.13o. entrance of your pail-age unto it. Weigh well, and attend un. to what the Law (peaksof your fin and its defers, or youwill never make a due application to God for forgivenefl. As ever you would have yourfouls juftified by Grace, take care to have your finsjudged by the Law. Secondly,There is a refpe6 in it to the Love of God. And this breaks the heart of the poor returning [inner. Sorrow from the Law, (huts it (elf up in the foul, and itrangleth it. Sor- row from the thoughts of the Love of God opens it, and caul eth it to flow forth. Thoughts offinning againfl the Love of God, managed by the HolyGhost ; what shall I say ? their cf- fears in the heart are not to beexpretred. This made Ezra cry out, Omy God Iblufh and am afhamed to lift up myface to thee, Chap. 9. 6. and v. t o. What fhall we fay after this ? After what ? why all the fruits of love and kindnefs they had been made partakers of. Thoughts of love and fin laid together, make the foul bluf, mourn, be afhamed and confounded in its fell. So Ezek. 36. 3 a. Then (hall you remember your own evil wayes, and your doings that were not good ; When shall they do fo ? when thoughts and apprehenfions of love (hall be brought home to them ; and faith he, then (hail you loatbyour felves in your own fight. The foul now calls to mind, what Love, what kindnefs, what mercy, what grace, what patience bath been exercifed towards ir, and whereof it hath been made partaker. The thoughts of all thefe now come in upon him as streams of water. Such Mercy, fuch Communion , fetch Priviledges, fuch hopes of Glory, tìtch talles of Heaven, fuch Peace, fuck Consolation, fetch Joy, fuch Communications of the Spirit, all to a poor, wretched, curled, loll, forlorn firmer ; and all this defpifed, négleó ed, the God of them all provoked, forfaken. Ah faith the foul, Whither (hall I caufe my f crew to go ? This fills him with fhame and confufion of face makes him mourn in fecret, and fgh to the breakingof the loyns ; and then, Thirdly, The blood andCroft of Chriff is all) brought to re- membrance by the Holy Ghott.Ah,faith the foul,have I thus re- quited the wonderful aflonifhingLove ofmy Redeemer?Is this the return, the requital, I have made unto him ? Are not Heaven and
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