Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

----- perfons,things,and courfes.Chriftians are not fo sE B.. un~ benighted~hen they flee.p, or give~up to fuch a reprobate Judgement, as that they dtfcerne not differencec; : they can difcernethat fuch are ina good way, and fuch are not ; that fucl_1 t?eanes • · are good, and fuch are not : A Chnfitan oft 'times is forced todoe worke out of judgement, in cafe his affcdions are afieep or diftracted, and fttch works are approved of God, as they come from aright judgement and certvi<!tion, though the evill of diem be chaftifed. I But~Uis ndtin the judgement. The childe of .4cb 9i•eof . d 11 h h k' . h '11 L fi gooJrema&- Go a1:~~eep at awor mg mt ewt · ,ct~oo mg .,rbinrhe -gi/J the better part which he will.deave to~,hebath agenerall purpofe t1plt4ft God in 40 thi»gs, and no fetled purpof~ in particular for to fleep thus : anfwerable to his judgement thereforehecho.o~ feth the better part and fide,he ownes God, and his caufe,even in evill times, cleaving in refolution of heart to the betl: wayes, though with weakndfe. - Takr DA'llid in his fleepytime between his re. pentance,and his foule finne: Ifone fhould have aiked him what he thought of the waies ofGod, and of the contrary, he would havegivenyou an anfwer .outoffound judgement thus and thus: Ifyou fhould have asked him wha-t courfe he would have followed in his choice ref<:>rufion~ and pu~pofe, hewoul~have anf~ered f.1vourly. ;. . A~~tn.e, thererematn~thafft'Cbon anfwerabk I 'rhfv ~etai11e . to thetr judgement, whtch theugh they finde, 'Jfcazor.a-.:- d r. 1 · f . . b . h (werable to an 1ee e ltnot or attme, tt emg per aps feat· \rbeirjuJgmtnt.l· . _ H 4 tered, __:__-~-

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