243 The Mulnefle of Sinne. norance, Atheifine,and profanene %,but he bath cal} my lot in a beautiful! place, and given mee a goodly heritage.. and now he requires nothing of me but to doe j ufU san i worke rnghteouii elf., and walke humbly before G o ;ta, and. I requite evil!: for good co the hurt of .mine oWne Soule. Ninthly, the manner,of comricri i g thofe fins is full of life toe. _Peradventure they are lungs, have a court and regiment inr y hearr, at belt they 1,vül beTyrdntsin me, they. havebeene committed with much llrength, power, fcrvrce, attendance,. with obílinacy, frowardneffe, perle- verance, without. fuck fenfe, forrow, or apprehentìon, as things of fo great a guiltinef e did require. Laiily, in good duties whereas grace should bee ever quick and operative, make us conformable to our Head, walke worthy of our high calling, and as becommeth go 3lineflè, as men that have learned and received. Chria how much unptofitableneffe, and unipiritualaefle, dittra. ions,.formality, want of relifli, failings, intermiflions, deadnetfe,uncomtortablenefle do thew themfelves? How much flesh and fpiric, how much wantonneífe with grace, how much of the world with the Word, how much of the weeke in the Sabbath, howmuch of the bag or barne in the Temple ? how much tuperfticion with the worfhip ? How` much ,fecurity with the feare ? How much vaine -glory in the honour of God ? In one word, How much of my f, lfe, and therefore how much of my tìn,in all my Cervices and duties which I performe ? Thele and a world the like aggravations, férve to lay open the life of aetuallfns. Thus have I at large opened the fir!} of the three, things propofed,namely,that the i'pirit by opening the Rule doth convince men that they are in the.ikate.of tin,both origi- nal l and a1uall. The next thing propofed was, to flew whet kjnde of condition or elate the flare of f, ne is And here are two things
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