The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and…

1. No wonder, if when Christ was suffering for Sin, he would even then permit the Power and odiousness of sin to break forth, that it might be known he suffered not in vain. No wonder, if he permitted his Followers to […] him, and to show the latent […] and Selfishness, and unthankfulness tha• remained in them, that so they might know, that the death of Christ was as necessary for them as for others; and the universality of the Disease might show the need that the Remedy should be Universal. And it is none of Christs intent to make his Servants to seem better than they are, to themselves or others, or to honour himself by the hiding of their Faults, but to magnify his pardoning ⟨p. 8⟩and healing grace, by the means or occasion of the sins which he pardoneth and healeth.

1. No wonder, if when Christ was suffering for Sin, he would even then permit the Power and odiousness of sin to break forth, that it might be known he suffered not in vain. No wonder, if he permitted his Followers to 〈…〉 him, and to shew the latent 〈…〉 and Selfishness, and unthankfulness tha• remained in them, that so they might know, that the death of Christ was as necessary for them as for others; and the universality of the Disease might shew the need that the Remedy should be Vniversal. And it is none of Christs intent to make his Servants to seem better than they are, to themselves or others, or to honour himself by the hiding of their Faults, but to magnifie his pardoning ⟨p. 8⟩and healing grace, by the means or occasion of the sins which he pardoneth and healeth.

2. Hereby he will bring his Followers to the fuller knowledge of themselves, and show them that which all their days should keep them humble, and watchful, and save them from p assumption and trusting in themselves: When we have made any full Confession of Christ, or done him any considerable service, we are apt to say with the Disciples,