204 Pauls Conver iou. hold our : and therefore we fee in many,that there are bubbles of grace ; as if they would retaine Chrift, and continue with him , they doe fome- thing,bur they doe not perfevere to the end , like thofein Hebr. 6. S. that have rafted, that is, pro - fefl'ed,but fall away : and this was the fault of the three grounds , they received the Gofpel! , but they continued not; Chri( entred not into them deepe enough. Now the difference of the foure grounds, was humiliation; every ground was plowed, but none plowed to purpofe, but the fourth ground : when there is but an outward (how of holinefl'e in a man, it will not keepe his colour alwayes,it may gli(ler and carry a thew of the right (lampe , but when it comes to triall it is but counterfeit, but when the fanäifying Spirit comes, and toucheth the heart of a Chriftian, and hee is thorowly humbled, hee will never look his beauty; bee is Gold, try him how you will. 3. Thirdly , to receive the Gofpell , is to take Chritt,and to part with all things for Chri (l, ma- king him hischiefefl joy, prizing him fo, that hee will loofe any thing for him , like that wife Mar_ chant in the Gofpell ; which when hee had found the Iewell , went and fold all that hee had, and bought it: there mutt be a prizing ofChrifi above a mans felfe , hee mull part with all things in the world , with husband and wife, with father and mother,with brother and fifter,with friends, with honour, and riches, pleafure, and all things elfe, and
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