The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

4. Remember what thou wilt be; fit for no use to Jesus Christ, good for nothing, but to pollute his holy name when thou meddlest with it; and why should the Lord take up such a dry leaf, Isay 64.6. and breath upon such a dry bone?

4. Remember what thou wilt be; fit for no use to Jesus Christ, good for nothing, but to pollute his holy name when thou medlest with it; and why should the Lord take up such a dry leafe, Isay 64.6. and breath upon such a dry bone?

5. Remember how good the Lords will is, even when it crosseth thine; he shall have infinite glory by all his denials to thee of what thou wouldst, he shall gain that, though thou losest thy peace and quietness, that good which thy foolish sinful will desires at his hand; John 12.27, 28. and if so, blessed be his name, let God live, but let man dye and perish, that he may be exalted of vile man.

5. Remember how good the Lords will is, even when it crosseth thine; he shall have infinite glory by all his denials to thee of what thou wouldst, he shall gaine that, though thou losest thy peace and quietnesse, that good which thy foolish sinfull will desires at his hand; Iohn 12.27, 28. and if so, blessed be his name, let God live, but let man dye and perish, that he may be exalted of vile man.

6. Remember the sweet rest thou shalt have by this subjection to the Lord, nothing is mans cross, but mans will; a stubborn will ⟨p. 152⟩