Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

There is a man of an ill-favoured countenance, who hath too high a conceit of his beauty; and wanting the benefit of a glass, he still stands in his own conceit; at last a Limner is sent unto him, who draweth his ill-favoured face to the life: now looking thereon, he begins to be convinced that he is not half so handsome, as he thought he was. Coming sinner, thy Temptations are these painters, they have drawn out thy ill-favoured heart to the life, and have set it before thine eyes, and now thou seest how ill favoured thou art.

There is a man of an ill-favoured countenance, who hath too high a conceit of his beauty; and wanting the benefit of a glass, he still stands in his own conceit; at last a Limner is sent unto him, who draweth his ill-favoured face to the life: now looking thereon, he begins to be convinc't that he is not half so handsome, as he thought he was. Coming sinner, thy Temptations are these painters, they have drawn out thy ill-favoured heart to the life, and have set it before thine eyes, and now thou seest how ill favoured thou art.

Hezekiah was a good man, yet when he lay sick (for ought I know) he had some what too good an opinion of his heart; and for ought I know also, the Lord might, upon his recovery, leave him to a Temptation, that he might better know All that was in his heart. ⟨p. 232⟩Compare, Isa. 38. 1, 2, 3. with 2 Chron. 32. 31.

Alas! we are sinful out of measure, but see it not to the full, until an hour of Temptation comes: But when it comes, it doth as the Painter doth, it draweth out our heart to the life: Yet the sight of what we are, should not keep us from coming to Jesus Christ.