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Fourthly,¹ a Natural Conscience does not prize an opportunity of suffering, so as those do who have a Principle of Faith; they go to it as a great mercy, they account it as a great privilege, that God calls them forth unto, and gives them opportunity for the testifying of their love to his Name, and the expressing the work of their Grace for his praise; accounting of it the highest improvement that may be, to lay down all at Gods feet in a way of self-denial: the other may suffer the same thing, but he looks upon his sufferings as a great part of his misery, and at the way of Gods providence, bringing of him thereunto, as a great evil unto him.

Fourthly,¹ a Naturall Conscience does not prize an opportunitie of suffering, so as those doe who have a Principle of Faith; they goe to it as a great mercie, they account it as a great priviledge, that God calls them forth unto, and gives them opportunitie for the testifying of their love to his Name, and the expressing the worke of their Grace for his prayse; accounting of it the highest improvement that may be, to lay downe all at Gods feet in a way of selfe-denyall: the other may suffer the same thing, but he lookes upon his sufferings as a great part of his miserie, and at the way of Gods providence, bringing of him thereunto, as a great evill unto him.

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Fifthly,¹ a Natural Conscience rests in the thing done, in the very work of enduring troubles; there doth not appear the Grace of God in the manner ⟨p. 242⟩of his sufferings, in the carriage of his Soul in them; there doth not appear the Glory of God, in the enabling of him to go through them; neither is he much solicitous about that, but only how he may bear them, and get through them: but Faith sets on work all the Graces of Gods Spirit, by which the sufferings of one truly gracious are much beautified, his Spirit is exceedingly savoury in them.