ntCtotio Çait1), 431 thy Love Love in Sincerity ? How loon inay it apply and Peal the Promifes to thy Heart, as if it thould lay to, thee, Thou repenteft indeed, and the Mercy in the Promife is thine ; Thou believeft indeed, and the Salvation in the Pro- Mile is thine; Thou loveft indeed, and thine are the fuperfenfual fuperintelleEtual good things prepared for the lovers of God. And now thou 4naitt fay Much better than Seneca, ualir f mans ? O how fweet is the rea and repofè which the felf- fearching Soul finds in the bofom of Chrift and Grace? He that comes to that fealing Ordinance of the Lords Supper mull prepare himfelf for the Seal by Self -exa- mination, ^oxìkaCgreo 6 IK#co7re- ¢auTÓY, Let a man examine himfelf; faith the Apofile, i Car. it t. 28. Examine as a man would do Gold or Silver by the fire, or by the Touchaone; in like manner snuff he do fo, that he may fit him - felf for the Seal of Affurance, of which the Sa- cramental Elements are Symbols. Again, If that tvouldff be affured, exercif thy Graces and grog, therèin. Ir much conduces td Affurance to render thy Graces as visible as thou cana. Grace, however it always carry a Divine luflre in it, is not fo viable when dor- niant in an habit or principle, as when it is put forth into aft and exercife; neither is it fo via- ble in its Initials in the fìnóking flax or bruited reed, as in its Progreffes and Statures in Chrift. In pòint of Comfort talents not ufed are as npne, Comforts lie dead in Believers as their Graces do ; the holy fire raked up affords no G g 2 light
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