Polhill - Houston-Packer Collection BT770 .P7 1675

get ouo aft!: the Congruity which is in Moral Virtues to it fell; there is nothing of Grace or Chrift in them : But thefe in the Believer come from the reconciled face of God fhining upon the Heart in a Mediator. Thofe in the Moralift exceed not their own fphere of Reafon ; but there in. the Believer pafs all under/landing, Phil. 4. 7. and are full of glory, t Pet.' . 8. Heaven comes down in them, and puts a -pure ferenity on the Heart: The Believer now dwells in ParadiCe ; the light of Gods Countenance fhining as a clear Sun ; Chrift as a Tree of Life dropping down Pardons and Graces ; the holy Spirit be= ing as a perpetual fpring of Virtues and Corn - forts ; the fragrant Promifes breathing out the odors of Love and Mercy ; the fweet voice of Peace and Joy uttered from Heaven, ecchoing and making melody in Confcience : Nothing here but green paftures and Rill wa- ters, and placid Heavens ; not a cloud from the Law to darken the light, not an ach iri Confcience to break the rest, not a fpot of.un- remitted fin to. ftain the ferenity. Oh what manner of Peace and joy is here ! A Stran- ger, a Pagan Philofopher intermeddles not with them. Thefe are to be found in the Raptures of a Cyprian, or in the Confolations of an Anilin or Bernard. In fuch a Rate as this,what fhould the Believer do ? May he not break out in the proper Idiom of Faith, 3 Lord and My God? May he not Purely conclude, My fin.0 are forgiven me ?- Nay, Ought he not to do fo, and with David, call upon all that is within him, F f 2 to 4'E9,

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