Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Ans. I. Earnestly desire, and seriously labour in the use of all means for an interest in Jesus Christ; for,

1 Though the condition of man at all times is very sad without in interest in Jesus Christ, yet the condition of a man in and under ⟨p. 58⟩his afflictions, without an interest in Christ is more sad, in that his Conscience is then most usually awakened with the sense and apprehension of his sins and fearful Judgements due unto him for the same, of which there is no hope or possibility of escaping without an interest in Christ.

1 Though the condition of man at all times is very sad without in interest in Jesus Christ, yet the condition of a man in and under ⟨p. 58⟩his afflictions, without an interest in Christ is more sad, in that his Conscience is then most usually awakened with the sence and apprehension of his sins and fearful Judgements due unto him for the same, of which there is no hope or possibility of escaping without an interest in Christ.

2 On the other side, the man that hath an interest in Christ, hath abundant ground of comfort in the greatest troubles and afflictions, in that Christ by his Sufferings hath taken away the sting of them, which is Sin, and changed the nature of them, by turning them from punishments into fatherly chastisements, for our profit and amendment.