·~ ~bowels 1Pere mo"Petiinme. 1 I in they folace themfelves . j but for inward r communion with him, any firength to holy duties, or againft finne, for to he infirumems for Gods honour and fervice, to doe any good, they are careleffe : For they live hereto ferve their owne turnes, leaving their ftate and in. heritance behind them. The Scripture faith, They have no changes , therefore they ftare not God, and fo they gee downe ro Hell quietly and fecurely. 0 but it is otherwife with . Gods Children , they are tolfed up and downe, God will nor ,fuffer them to profper, or live long in a fecure, drowfie, finfuU ftate, the continuance wherein is a fearefull evi– dence, that fuch an one as yet bath no faving grace, nor that he yet belongs to God, f~eing Chritl: hates fuch an eftate, and will not fuf– fer his to be long therein, but willlhifc and remove them from vdfell to veffell, from con. dition to condition, till hee have wrought in . them that difpofition of foule, that they fhalf regard' and love him more and more' and have nearer and nearer communion with him. THE / -~----·----------
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