438 p:do a fait!). Gods Countenance. In fuch a' growth as this as in a clear gl afs thou maift difcover that thy Graces are vital and true feeds of Immortality: Statues and Pidures,' fuch as Hypocrites are, grow not, 'Effentials and Vitals are Vitra peni- cilium: Sincerity and Divine Vitality cannot be painted. Confider therefore with thy felf how it path been with thee, there was but a little dawn in thy Heart and now a pure morning. Thy Grace was but a little grain of Muftard- feed, and now it is become a Tree. Thou waft but a little Ernbrio, a babe in Chrifi, and now a man of.firength and fpiritual ftature , And what Both this argue but Life in thee ? Con- fider again, thou haft an ocean of Corruption in thy Heart, and yet thy little (park of Grace bath grown., thou haft flood in the midfi of Satans winds and withering blafis, and yet thou gro weft, thou haft had many a (harp froft from the World to nip thy fruit in the bud,and yet ihdu groweft : And what loth this fpeak but a feed and life of God in thee,fuch as will fpring np into, Life Eternal ? Take this as an Earneft from God, that maugre Satan and all the power of Darknefs, thou (halt grow and grow on, till thou art tranfplanted into the Heavenly Paradife. Again,If thou would![ have 4ffurance,be much in mortifying of Sin. This is the great troubler. Ìf thou indulg it, a cloud will come over thy Confcience & darken thyEvidences;thy Graces will all droop,and like a Candle in the focket,be Teadyto die;theLaw will arm it fèlfagainfi thee, and 1
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