Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

The First is weakness or a small measure of grace, as in 1 Cor. 3. 1. That is those that are weak in knowledge and habes in Christ.

The Second kind of weakness is this, when one that ¹hath been strong is now fallen sick and weak, that is, he is fallen into a consumption of grace, so that he cannot use his strength and his grace as formerly he could. Now those that are weak in the first kind they grow stronger and stronger, but they that are weak in the second way they grow weaker and weaker, therefore if there be any here that are such that have made profession of Christ, but now are fallen unto the love of the world, that were once lively and quickly to good duties, but are now backward and cool, my counsel to them shall be the ⟨p. 42⟩same which Christ gives to the Church of Ephesus in the Rev. 2. 5. Remember from whence thou art fallen, and ²repent, and to do their first. works, lest their Candlestick be taken from them; that is, let them remember what they were in times past and what they are now, and let them humble themselves, and turn again into the right way, and be ashamed of themselves that they have run away so far from Christ, and that in time too, lest their Candlestick be taken away from them, that is, lest those opportunities to good, and the offers of grace be taken away from them.

The Second kinde of weakness is this, when one that ¹hath been strong is now fallen sick and weak, that is, he is fallen into a consumption of grace, so that he cannot use his strength and his grace as formerly he could. Now those that are weak in the first kinde they grow stronger and stronger, but they that are weak in the second way they grow weaker and weaker, therefore if there be any here that are such that have made profession of Christ, but now are fallen unto the love of the world, that were once lively and quickly to good duties, but are now backward and cool, my counsel to them shall be the