Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity showing the ground from whence they…Christian behaviour, or, The fruits of true Christianity shewing the ground from whence they…

2. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent.] These are words well put together; for a solid considering of what I have lost in my declining, will provoke in my heart a sorrow and godly heaviness, whereby I shall be forced to bemoan my condition, and say, I will go and return to my first Husband, for then it was better with me than now, Hos. 2. 7.

And believe it, the reason of God's standing off from giving thee comfortable communion with himself, it is, that thou mightest first see the difference between sticking close to God, and forsaking of him; and next, that thou mightest indeed acknowledge thy offence, and seek his face, Hos. 5. 15. he taketh no pleasure in thy forlorn condition; he ⟨p. 136⟩had rather thou shouldst have Him in thy bosom, only he will have it i• his own Way: He looketh down upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which is right, and i• profiteth me not, then he will deliver his soul from going down into the Pit, and his life shall see the Light, Job 33. 27, 28.

And beleive it, the reason of God's standing off from giving thee comfortable communion with himself, it is, that thou mightest first see the difference between sticking close to God, and forsaking of him; and next, that thou mightest indeed acknowledge thy offence, and seek his face, Hos. 5. 15. he taketh no pleasure in thy forlorn condition; he ⟨p. 136⟩had rather thou shouldst have Him in thy bosome, only he will have it i his own Way: He looketh down upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which is right, and i profiteth me not, then he will deliver his soul from going down into the Pit, and his life shall see the Light,