An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

And this is according to the ^*Chaldee Paraphrase, They have plots, thus they do doubt to Convert themselves to ⟨p. 122⟩my Law. There are rollings of their thoughts, this way, and that way, but they are in doubt and come not to a full resolution.

And this is according to the ^*Chaldae Paraphrase, They have plots, thus they do doubt to Convert themselves to ⟨p. 122⟩my Law. There are rowlings of their thoughts, this way, and that way, but they are in doubt and come not to a full resolution.

1. *Populus me•s haesitat se convertere ad Legemmeam. Chald. Paraphrase.

Now my Brethren, This is a great evil, for men to strive ¹with their consciences. When their consciences puts them upon the ways of God, they think, There is good in ²Gods ways, they think that God is not well pleased in the ways that they are in, they think it might be very well if they did reform their way; yea, but then on the other side, there comes in temptations, I but there are such difficulties in the way, I shall discountenance such and such great ones, I shall have opposition by such and such, in that they will be displeased, I shall hazard my self, and the like, I must deny my self in many things, I must go against the hair in these and these things, I must cross my heart in such things that my heart is strongly bent upon, why may I not do well enough in some other way without so much trouble to my self? And thus their hearts reason within them, and yet again at other times they have serious thoughts begin to work, and their consciences begin to stir again, but have not I to deal with a holy and glorious God? how if things shall prove otherwise than they are apprehended by me? what good will it do to me to cozen my own soul? were it not better for me to return? [Oh! that I could but tell how to speak this day to such as are perhaps yet in suspense, it may be there are some here this day that are in suspense in their own thoughts, they cannot be quiet in that way that now they are in, when they awake in the night season their consciences trouble them, and yet when they come abroad among company then that carries them away again, and thus their lives do as it were hang in suspense, and are vexed and troubled in their own thoughts, not knowing what to do; Oh! that I could (I say) speak to these hearts this day, that I could but tell how to present some determining thoughts to such as these