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…

And to begin with the first cries of a Christian in the pangs of his New birth.

And to begin with the first cryes of a Christian in the pangs of his New birth.

I. A poor soul having wallowed long in vanity of villainies and vanities; of lust and licentiousness; is now by divine blessing at this or •e other Sermon struck through by the Sword of the Spirit with penitent remorse; and his heart broken into pieces, by the hammer of the Law. In this depth of heaviest distress, and bleeding case; he casts his eyes upon Jesus Christ lifted up in the Ministry as an Antitype •o the brazen Serpent, for his comfortable binding •p, and everlasting cure. Those Messengers of God, who are able to declare unto Man his uprightness, ¹assure him in the Word of life and truth, and charge him in ⟨p. 385⟩His name who was anointed by the Lord for that purpose, and appointed by the Father of mercies to comfort all Mourners ²in Zion; that now being truly cast down under Gods mighty hand, thirsting for the blood of Christ, and sincerely resolving upon a new course for the time to come; He would turn his legal terrors, into Evangelical weeping, joy; put on beauty for ashes, the garment of praise, for the spirit of heaviness; That he might be called a Tree of righteousness, ³the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. Oh no, says he, out of the deep sense of his bottomless vileness, The news is too good to be true, to wit, that now the blessed Son of God, and all the precious, rich purchases of his unvaluable passion should belong unto me, the sinfullest wretch that the earth bears, who have desperately spent my days and strength so long in the furious service of Satan, and mine own sensual lusts, &c. whereupon he refuses comfort, and chooses rather to sink again and languish under the horrors of guiltiness and fear. Whereas he should incomparably more honour and please the God of all comfort, by trusting his mercy, sealing to his truth; then by unseasonable suspecting his justice and power.