The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

3: Would you have a free use of the Creature? and this well thought of might be a prevailing motive: Consider but upon what account unregenerate sinners stand in reference to all the good things of God which they do make use of, turning of them by their ill improvement of them, into so many treasuries of wrath and vengeance, Rom. 2. 5. So much as they do enjoy of God's goodness, so many witnesses there are against them, to accuse and condemn them before him: Every meals meat, every draught of drink, every garment which they wear, all the contentment that they enjoy in this life, will add to, and make their torments so much the greater in hell. With what trembling doth the awakened sinner eat and drink, and make use of all the comforts of life? and this because he now is made to understand ⟨p. 41⟩that in all he doth but increase his guilt, and render his account more fearful. But lo, here is the way to be delivered from the tyranny of these tormenting thoughts, and to be able truly to rejoice in the goodness of God: Get Christ to be yours by faith, and then these will be no longer stolen comforts ending in bitterness, but you may be able to rejoice in the Lord and in his goodness, having all coming to you as new Covenant mercies, sanctified by the blood of Christ.

3: Would you have a free use of the Creature? and this well thought of might be a prevailing motive: Consider but upon what account unregenerate sinners stand in reference to all the good things of God which they do make use of, turning of them by their ill improvement of them, into so many treasuries of wrath and vengeance, Rom. 2. 5. So much as they do enjoy of God's goodness, so many witnesses there are against them, to accuse and condemn them before him: Every meals meat, every draught of drink, every garment which they wear, all the contentment that they enjoy in this life, will add to, and make their torments so much the greater in hell. With what trembling doth the awakened sinner eat and drink, and make use of all the comforts of life? and this because he now is made to understand ⟨p. 41⟩that in all he doth but encrease his guilt, and render his account more fearful. But lo, here is the way to be delivered from the tyranny of these tormenting thoughts, and to be able truly to rejoyce in the goodness of God: Get Christ to be yours by faith, and then these will be no longer stollen comforts ending in bitterness, but you may be able to rejoyce in the Lord and in his goodness, having all coming to you as new Covenant mercyes, sanctified by the blood of Christ.