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(2.) If we find our selves excited to a stricter watch over our hearts against them. As Travellers will be careful when they come to places where they have been robbed before, that they be not so easily surprised again. We should not only lament when we have had such foolish imaginations in worship breaking in upon us, but also bless God that we have had no more, since we have hearts so fruitful of weeds. We should give God the glory when we find our hearts preserved from these intruders, and not boast of our selves, but return him our praise for the watch and guard he kept over us to preserve us from such Thieves.

(2.) If we find our selves excited to a stricter watch over our hearts against them. As Travellers will be careful when they come to places where they have been rob'd before, that they be not so easily surprized again. We should not only lament when we have had such foolish imaginations in worship breaking in upon us, but also bless God that we have had no more, since we have hearts so fruitful of weeds. We should give God the glory when we find our hearts preserved from these intruders, and not boast of our selves, but return him our praise for the watch and guard he kept over us to preserve us from such Thieves.

Let us not be discomforted; for as the greatness of our sins, upon our turning to God is no hinderance to our justification, because it doth not depend upon our conversion as the meritorious cause, but upon the infinite value of our Saviours satisfaction, which reaches the greatest sins as well as the least; so the multitude of our bewailed distractions in worship are not a hinderance to our acceptation, because of the uncontrollable power of Christs intercession.

Let us not be discomforted; for as the greatness of our sins, upon our turning to God is no hinderance to our justification, because it doth not depend upon our conversion as the meritorious cause, but upon the infinite value of our Saviours satisfaction, which reaches the greatest sins as well as the least; so the multitude of our bewail'd distractions in worship are not a hinderance to our acceptation, because of the uncontroulable power of Christs intercession.