14.0 'Mansper- f u a vile wretch as I am,and have been I And dition Is of himfelf fo joys exceedingly, like a man half way wrapt _,.-N3 up into Heaven. Fourthly ,hereupon the foul being comforted after it was wounded, now calleth God, my Cod ; and Chriít my fu;eet faviour ; and now it.doubts not but it inail be fa.ved ; why ? be- caufe I have received much comfort, after much farrow. and doubting, Hof;8.2.3. and yet remains a deluded miserable creature (till. But here mark the difference between the wit- Me fflfe nets of each fpirit. The falfe irit makes a fpirit per- man beleeve he is,in the flare of grace,and than (wades a min to be i be raved. becaufe he bath tatted of Chrift, The Sincere Convert in a good ditate, when he is not. and fo bath been comforted, and that abun- dantly : But the true fpirit perfw=grades a man his eftate is good and face, becaufe he bath not only tatted, but bought thisChrill, as the wife Merchant in the GoTel, thatrejoyced he had found the 'Pearl, but yet 'mays not here, but fells away all , and buyes the Pearl. Like two Chapmen that come, to buy Wine, the One tails it, and goeth away in_a drunken ht and foconcludes it is his : So a man doth,that bath the falfe fpirit : 1 ut the true fpirited man cloth not only tafte, but buyes the Wine, although he doth not it all down when he cometh to tatle it ; yet he having been incited by tail- to buy it, >ron, he calls it his own :. So a childof God tailing little ofGod,anda littleofChrift, and a little of the Promifes at his firft conver Pion, although he tarts not all the rweetnefs, that is in God, yet he forfakes all for God, for Chrift , and fo takes them lawfully as his. own, Again, i
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