Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THIS then is the Nature of the path of the Just: And where it is otherwise with us in our Walk before God, we can have no Evidence that we are in that Path, or that we have a living, growing Principle of Spiritual Life in us. And it is fit that Professors of all sorts should be minded of these things; for we may see not a few of them under visible Decays, without any sincere ⟨p. 37⟩endeavours after a Recovery, who yet please themselves that the root of the matter is in them. It is so, if Love of the World, Conformity unto it, negligence in Holy Duties, and coldness in Spiritual Love be an Evidence of such Decays. But let none deceive their own Souls, wherever there is a saving Principle of Grace, it will be thriving and growing unto the end. And if it fall under Obstructions, and thereby into Decays for a Season, it will give no rest or quietness unto the Soul wherein it is, but will labour continually for a Recovery. Peace in a Spiritually decaying condition, is a Soul-ruining Security; better be under terror on the account of surprisal into some Sin, than be in peace under evident Decays of Spiritual Life.

THIS then is the Nature of the path of the Just: And where it is otherwise with us in our Walk before God, we can have no Evidence that we are in that Path, or that we have a living, growing Principle of Spiritual Life in us. And it is fit that Professors of all sorts should be minded of these things; for we may see not a few of them under visible Decays, without any sincere ⟨p. 37⟩endeavours after a Recovery, who yet please themselves that the root of the matter is in them. It is so, if Love of the World, Conformity unto it, negligence in Holy Duties, and coldness in Spiritual Love be an Evidence of such Decays. But let none deceive their own Souls, wherever there is a saving Principle of Grace, it will be thriving and growing unto the end. And if it fall under Obstructions, and thereby into Decays for a Season, it will give no rest or quietness unto the Soul wherein it is, but will labour continually for a Recovery. Peace in a Spiritually decaying condition, is a Soul-ruining Security; better be under terror on the account of surprizal into some Sin, than be in peace under evident Decays of Spiritual Life.