449 3. et ono gaít!), or hide it Pelf under thy Lawful things, have one holy Truth or other as a Nail ready to fallen it, that it move no further in thee. Pierce it, let out its vital blood, I mean the love and joy and delight of it. Surrender up (hy Affe ±ions to God and Chrift, and hea- venly things, Chat it may give up the ghoft ; bury it out of thy fight ; never give it a look or glance more; converfe no more with it, than thou wouldit do with the dead ; raffe it not up again into any frefh embraces ; no, not fo much as the pi6ure of it in a finful thought or fancy. After this manner mortifie fin., and above all thy darling only one , which thy Heart hash been tender of, and cculd with that it were no fin ; fpare it nor, but caufe it to dye, as a lure Pledg that all other fins fball do fo. Believe it, This is c=f)rl n1x the path of life, or of thofe two lines of Holinefs and Comfort. If ye mortifie the deeds of the body, ye Jhall live, faith the Apof;le, Rom. 8. 13 ; an eternal life in Heaven, and a comfortable one in the way thither. Who knows, but that whilft thou art mortifying thy fin, God may come and fpeak to thee, much as he did to Abraham when he was offering up his Ifaac; Now I know that thou repenteft indeed, and believeft indeed, feting thou haft not withheld thy Sin, thy Darling Sin from the work of Mortification : Surely, ble f ng I will blef thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee; Thy Com- forts &all be as the Stars, and as the Sand. When thou haft been a flaying thy Lulls, Te- fus
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