The Godly Man's Picture

Nay, in many of the Regenerate there is more corruption than grace, so much smoke that you can scarce discern any fire, so much distrust, that you can hardly see any^* Faith, so much passion, that you can hardly see any meekness. Jonah a peevish Prophet, he quarrels with God; nay, he justifies his passion, Jonah 4. 9. I do well to be angry to the death. Here was so much passion, that it was hard to see any grace. A Christian in this life, is like a glass that hath more froth than wine; or like a diseased body, that hath more humours than spirits: This may humble the best, to consider how much corruption is interlarded with their grace.

Nay, in many of the Regenerate there is more corruption than grace, so much smoak that you can scarce discern any fire, so much distrust, that you can hardly see any^* Faith, so much passion, that you can hardly see any meekness. Ionah a peevish Prophet, he quarrels with God; nay, he justifies his passion, Ionah 4. 9. I do well to be angry to the death. Here was so much passion, that it was hard to see any grace. A Christian in this life, is like a glass that hath more froth than wine; or like a diseased body, that hath more humours than spirits: This may humble the best, to consider how much corruption is interlarded with their grace.

1. *1 Sam. 27. 1.

2. This little grace mixed with much corruption shall not be quenched: The smoking flax he will not quench: The Disciples Faith was at first but small, they forsook Christ and ^*