NEvv CovENANT. neverloved theLord, there is no fuch love he-– tweene theLordand him, as there is betweene the Father and the Childe, bctweenetheHut: b:md and the wife, henever had thefpirit of a - fon,heconnot pray, for hedclightsnotig God. But he doth pray fometirnes 1 o6jetl. Yea,for fomefir,ir may,be in fome extrtmi- .An{w. h . c. 1 B W1cked men tie,hemay cry as aT 1e1c at t 1e· ·arre may cry eo:ne not r 0 to the Iudge,(as he doth fometimcs exceeding Godo1uof hard)nOt becaufehelovestheiudge, butitis a lo~etohlm, t fi · · d. . b . butareforcd cry ttlat comes rom extremme.an 1t1s ut In. by rhdr o vn: extremiric; ,and by that the falfenelfe andhypo:.. extremitie. Hifie ofthem is kn0wn: So an hypocrite may ery in the time ofextremitie,but it is acry, it is . nota prayer, and it is but ~Llthetirne of extre- · miry ,it is not not atall times that he dothit, he isnotabl~todo it;For the Lordis a-firanger to · him,he lookesupon the Lord 1 as upon a terrible · Judge; And therefore if thou WO!lldeft know · whetherthouhaft the fpirit of' the fonne, firfr thou !halt know it by·rhatwhiCh went before;- fecondly, thou thalt kno\V it bythat which goes together with it, theteftimony ofthe ·. Bloud,thetefiimony oftheWater,and,ofthine : owne Spirit. Thirdly, t~ou mayfr knowit by this, by the' · Confequent,tt makes thee able to pray, and in the time of extremity it makes thee able to goe toGod;astoa Father,.whenanotherflye&away . fromhim, as fromeverlafiing burnings. · So much Jhallferve for thistime" . FT N lS..
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