Crumbs of comfort

5ly, The Lord is pleased to do, because he intends that there shall be a clear difference between heaven and earth; O how sweet will Heaven, and Christ, and the fullness of joy at his right hand be to the soul that is never satiate! how sweet will heaven be to him that never could get corruption mortified, but was trailed many a day up and down with it.

5ly, The Lord is pleased to do, because he intends that there shall be a clear difference between heaven and earth; O how sweet will Heaven, and Christ, and the fulness of joy at his right hand be to the soul that is never satiate! how sweet will heaven be to him that never could get corruption mortified, but was trailed many a day up and down with it.

Infer. 1. Go not away then with an evil report of him, though ye find not these things in your self, that others of his people has found; and I obtest you to count Crumbs essential bread, though ye get no more at present, make sure of the true nature and being of Grace; make sure, that ye have a respect to his Commands, tho ye cannot get further to any mark of grace. 2. Do not judge with a spirit of jealousy, because ye are not all of the same size; there is some below you in understanding the matters of God; that when it comes to the point, will be as particular in confession of the truth as any. 5. Be not censorious, though any with many degrees shall fall into corruption. But then again, if he that has but grace in the third degree, come honourably throughout, not polluted with the temptation, how aggravating is thy sin? who has received grace in the sixth degree? But be it known to you, that it is not degrees of grace that holds up grace to fight with corruption and temptation, with desertion, but the Sovereignty that makes it stand; for if it were the degrees of grace that keep a man up, how comes it that he who has the lively exercise of ⟨p. 7⟩grace, he is almost overcome of a temptation, and foiled in an evil frame, and grace at under with him, that he is run down with corruption: Truly none can give a reason for it, but he who has set bound to the Sea, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; hath set bounds to a mans corruptions, that such a length it shall come, and no further; therefore listen much to God and his Sovereignty, and very little to your own receipts of grace, yea in the highest degree that men do create, and that with influences of the spirit. 7. That the gradual degrees of grace and parts is not founded upon disproportion of natural proprieties. 8. Grace runs in that channel, that most in forthcoming, where least expected: and this because they are come of an evil kind, and evil edification, and so few means of grace, and so little professions; and yet all of these good symptoms of a choice Christian. 9. For ground of encouragement, the Masters honour and glory, and our well-being is winded up, that is, our standing steadfast in an evil time, and is the accomplishment of all the greatest promises in the word, since we have many sweet clouds and showers of prayers in behalf of those who own the truths of God;