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

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.

Alas! we are sinfull out of measure, but see it not to the full, untill 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.

There are two ways, by which God lets a man into a sight of the Naughtiness of his heart: One is, by the light of the Word, and spirit of God; and the other is, by the Temptations of the Devil. But by the first, we see our naughtiness one way, and by the second, another. By the Light of the Word, and Spirit of God, thou hast a sight of thy naughtiness, as by the light of the Sun, thou hast a sight of the spots, and defilements that are in thy house or raiment. Which light gives thee to see a necessity of cleansing, but maketh not the blemishes to spread more abominably. But when Satan comes, when he tempts, he puts life and rage into our sins, and turns them, as it were, into so many devils within us. Now like prisoners they attempt to brake through the prison of our