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

3. Nay there may be breaches between God […] them, and so the comfort of their peaceable state intercepted. They may fall into some griev• sin, and God be provoked at them for it, a• look upon them like an Enemy; and it may be long time before he will witness in them their fo• giveness in respect of that sin: and this will fo• ly tempt them to question the peaceableness their state, or whether ever there were any su• thing in truth, and so put them on it to begin […] work anew, as he, Psal. 51. 10. And as this co• fidence is groundless, so it is dangerous. Not o• doth it give the Flesh and Satan advantage draw us into carelessness, and so expose us ⟨p. 155⟩temptation, whereby we may be precipitated into such Sins as will bring us into this uncomfortable condition; but when it is so, it will put us to a miserable loss in our own spirits, and make the apprehension of our Guilt so much the more formidable. It will put a weapon into the adversaries hand, to enforce the more vehemently the conclusion; that because we thought it could not be thus with one that is pardoned, therefore this condition must needs be an evidence that we never were pardoned, and so are under the whole Guilt of sin, and how heavy will this be?

3. Nay there may be breaches between God 〈…〉 them, and so the comfort of their peaceable state intercepted. They may fall into some griev• sin, and God be provoked at them for it, a• look upon them like an Enemy; and it may be long time before he will witness in them their fo• giveness in respect of that sin: and this will fo• ly tempt them to question the peaceableness their state, or whether ever there were any su thing in truth, and so put them on it to begin work anew, as he,