The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

2. In case there be any such, make haste to do your duty in this regard, consider what you have to do, and use no delays. And here,

1. Expect this to be the bitterness of the Cup. 'The trials themselves may be irksome, and enough to try all your patience in bearing them; but this will add an unknown weight to the burden; it will be the very poison of the Cup: you will find the difference to your cost, if you adventure it, and do not speedily prevent it, Psal. 76. 7. To see God angry will be more dreadful than to feel the whole weight of affliction, that can be suffered in this world. Yea, it may be, and sometimes is so, that it will make you lose the sight of his love to you, and apprehend him as an Enemy; and what a terrible thing will that be?

1. Expect this to be the bitterness of the Cup. 'The trials themselves may be irksome, and enough to try all your patience in bearing them; but this will add an unknown weight to the burden; it will be the very poyson of the Cup: you will find the difference to your cost, if you adventure it, and do not speedily prevent it, Psal. 76. 7. To see God angry will be more dreadful than to feel the whole weight of affliction, that can be suffered in this world. Yea, it may be, and sometimes is so, that it will make you lose the sight of his love to you, and apprehend him as an Enemy; and what a terrible thing will that be?

2 Hence seek to God in true repentance & renewed faith for the actual forgiveness of it. Be thorough in this work, confess it ingeniously, mourn for it bitterly, aggravate it particularly, beg hard for a pardon and look to the merits of Christ, and take hol on them for it; wait submissively at the footsto of the throne of grace, till he bestows it.