Iaellwr F 170 The-Sincere Convert. Mans per- lec,and got water in his bucket, he may boldly diaoCelfn y o ' f fa fo-long as thefe Taft, I íha11 not faitifh ; fo mayett Ch íl, C n the r pertformanc of any duty ; So (long as Chrifts life,lat eth, I (hall live ; as long I as he haEh any wifdome or power fo long (hail sign I be directed _ and enabled in well -doing. when our Fifthly, if thy ,duties make thee fin more duties boldly, thou doll then refs in duties ; for rnakeus thefe duties which cary a man out of him- r more Pelf unto Chrift ever fetch power a ainft boldly. p g . i fin ; but duties that a man reps ,in, arm him and fence him in his fin, I/aiah I. 14. A Cart that hath no wheels to rell on can hardly be drawn into t& dirt , but one that bath wheels , corneal loaded through it; .fo a child of God that bath no wheels, no duties to reft upon, cannot willingly be drawn into fin: but another man, though be be loaden with fin ( even fometimesagainft his confcience , ) yet having duties to bear him up goeth merily on in a finfull courfe and makes no bonesof fin. When we fee a bate man revile agreat Prince and dtrike him , we fay Surely , he durft not do it unlefs he bad fome body to bear him out in it , that he relts and trufts'' unto: fo when we fee men fin againft the To Grp, great God we conceive, certainly, they and ask durlt not do it, if they had not fome du- God for- ties to bear them out' in it and to encou- givenefs is but rage them in their way, that they trufl unto. mean fa -. For take a profane man, what makes him tista&ion, drink, fwear, coufen,game, whore ? Is there no
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