Lord there be these sins that wring my Conscience, ease me of them, here be these duties I must do, else never saved, and my heart is dead, Oh affect me, and help me to do them: there be such works I am to perform, and have no strength to Pray, to Prophesy, Lord assist me, Mat. 7. 21, 22. Depart, I know you not, never accepted of you, you thought these things would please me, you closed not with me, Oh now depart from me, from my fellowship, my bosom, my presence: for this is ever their frame, they think to pacify God by what they do, and though they think his justice cannot, yet they hope there is such indulgence in his mercy that he will accept. Thus it was, Isai. 58. 2. for this is their temper, they are not wounded with the want of Christ himself, but with some jarrings against the Law, for which they fear they must dye. Hence not seeing into the spiritual nature of the Law, they are wounded, not slain by the Law: they hope they shall live if they can leave such sins, perform such duties, feel such abilities. Now having made trial at home, they go to Christ, and seek him with delight for to work this or that, and then they are well: now if they do not receive at present, then they hope by seeking to find in time, if he doth not help them, then they shall be well. Hence they ever live in some sin, and know it not, as these did, and as the young man, Mat. 19. And thus 'tis, as 'tis with two Princes, one is in trouble by inroders, he sends for aid to another, but doth not cast down his Crown, and put himself in subjection to the other. So men will be Kings, and hence send for aid against the inroads of some sin that stings Conscience, but put not themselves under the Lord Jesus. Bring those mine enemies hither, Luke 19. 27. In one word; as the Wound is, so is my closing with ⟨p. 81⟩Christ, if one be in outward trouble, now to Christ he goes to deliver; if pressed with inward trouble for some sins, now to Christ to remove them, and so to pacify conscience; if with want of Christ himself, now he goes for himself.
Lord there be these sins that wring my Conscience, ease me of them, here be these duties I must do, else never saved, and my heart is dead, Oh affect me, and help me to do them: there be such works I am to perform, and have no strength to Pray, to Prophesie, Lord assist me, Mat. 7. 21, 22. Depart, I know you not, never accepted of you, you thought these things would please me, you closed not with me, Oh now depart from me, from my fellowship, my bosom, my presence: for this is ever their frame, they think to pacifie God by what they do, and though they think his justice cannot, yet they hope there is such indulgence in his mercy that he will accept. Thus it was, Isai. 58. 2. for this is their temper, they are not wounded with the want of Christ himself, but with some jarrings against the Law, for which they fear they must dye. Hence not seeing into the spiritual nature of the Law, they are wounded, not slain by the Law: they hope they shall live if they can leave such sins, perform such duties, feel such abilities. Now having made tryal at home, they go to Christ, and seek him with delight for to work this or that, and then they are well: now if they do not receive at present, then they hope by seeking to find in time, if he doth not help them, then they shall be well. Hence they ever live in some sin, and know it not, as these did, and as the young man, Mat. 19. And thus 'tis, as 'tis with two Princes, one is in trouble by inroders, he sends for aid to another, but doth not cast down his Crown, and put himself in subjection to the other. So men will be Kings, and hence send for aid against the inrodes of some sin that stings Conscience, but put not themselves under the Lord Jesus. Bring those mine enemies hither, Luke 19. 27. In one word; as the Wound is, so is my closing with ⟨p. 81⟩Christ, if one be in outward trouble, now to Christ he goes to deliver; if pressed with inward trouble for some sins, now to Christ to remove them, and so to pacifie conscience; if with want of Christ himself, now he goes for himself.
