Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

These things being so, and most sure; let every truehearted Nathanael be heartily entreated, nay, justly charged in the name of Jesus Christ, by the blessed Spirit, the fountain of all comfort; as he will answer it at the glorious Throne of Mercy, erected in heaven upon purpose to make him everlastingly merry, that he henceforth most resolutely and for ever cast out of his conscience, sprinkled with the Blood of the Lamb, and out of the Kingdom of Christ, overflowing with Peace and Joy, now comfortably established ⟨p. 379⟩in his soul, those intruding usurpers Tyrants; only natural Lords over natural men: I mean, horrors of guiltiness, false fears, slavish terrors, damps and droppings; all uncomfortable pensiveness, dejections, and fear. And leaving such Harpies as these, and heart-eaters, only to the grumbling and guilty consciences of all those that hate to be reformed, and Satan's slaves, as their proper furies; let him with an holy violence against the devils cruel assaults and contradictions of his own distrustful heart, and with a cheerful spirit, lay hold upon his just inheritance and everlasting portion, purchased for him by the bitter and painful sufferings of the Son of God; even floods and fresh successions of sweetest joys, shed and showered down continually from the Throne of Grace upon his upright heart, in great abundance; if he will but only vouchsafe to open the door by the hand of faith, that the blessed beams of such lightsomeness and comfort, shining from the face of Christ, may come in. Let his soul, full fairly arrayed with its heavenly robes, to which, the beauty of the morning, brightness of the Moon, and glory of the Sun are but a shadow; and listening sweetly to that melodious Song, composed all of Peace and Joy, Pleasures and Pardon of sin, which the mercy of God makes in the ear of its faith; fall to, and fill it self at the Wedding Feast of the Kings Son, with those ever-springing rivers of spiritual refreshing, out of the bottomless depth of Gods free love revealed in the mystery of Christ, by the ministry of the Word and Sacramental grace; as with marrow and fatness: Let it suck abundantly, and be satisfied with the breasts of everlasting consolations.

These things being so, and most sure; let euery truehearted Nathaneel be heartily intreated, nay, iustly charged in the name of Iesus Christ, by the blessed Spirit, the fountaine of all comfort; as hee will answer it at the glorious Throne of Mercy, erected in heauen vpon purpose to make him euerlastingly merry, that hee henceforth most resolutely and for euer cast out of his conscience, sprinkled with the Blood of the Lambe, and out of the Kingdome of Christ, ouerflowing with Peace and Ioy, now comfortably established