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It were good that many of you had that word from your heart in your Mouth, which is Jere. 31.18. Turn thou me, and I shall be turned: Convictions of a natural state, Alas! are very rare; If any of you have had such Convictions, try what became of them, and what followed on them. A Third Conviction or challenge is, of or for former breaches of Covenant, For Gospel sins and the sin of dealing unfaithfully in Gods Covenant: and can any of you shift this Challenge, considering what ye were tied to in Baptism, and by other vows and engagements which ye have come under since that time, especially at the Lords Supper? How few of those have been kept? or rather have they not been as so many ropes of Sand? And who are suitably challenged for and convinced of such breaches, as it is implied here, that these People are? A Fourth Conviction is, of want of Gods presence, insinuated in their Going to seek the Lord, which imports an absence of God, and that sinfully procured by them, for which they weep and are kindly affected: the absence of God simply considered is no ground of challenge, it being an act of Sovereignty; but absence procured through our sin is a great ground of challenge: Alas! the most part know not, neither are acquainted with any such Challenge: they think God is always with them: However, the Lord is absent, and it would well become us to search out diligently that which hath procured his absence; for whatever may be Gods end in it, there is abundant ground of Just challenge that we may get against our selves in it. A Fifth Ground of challenge is, in respect of their own stupidity and ignorance, which have incapacitated them to take up the way how to come to God for making up the breach, therefore They ask the way to Zion: And this may be another sad challenge to ⟨p. 193⟩many; who though their ignorance, senselessness and stupidity have utterly indisposed and unfitted themselves to make their peace with God, and are without knowledge of the way how to vent their desires to him. A Sixth Challenge implied is, the want of love to one another, and a Challenge for seen distance betwixt God and them helps to bear in on them this Challenge for distance betwixt one another: Therefore now they say, Come and let us join our selves: this is another challenge, which we should not shift:

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