A guide to Christ. Or, The way of directing souls that are under the…

and to augment his misery, he was afflicted with grievous temptations, horribilia de Deo, terribilia de side. These heart-piercing sorrows continued for many Months. They issued in a sound Conversion.

There have been some, who have maintained, that a man is not sufficiently prepared for Christ, except he be brought to that pass, as out of respect to the Will and Glory of God, to be content to be Damned Eternally. An horrid assertion ⟨p. x⟩justly disclaimed by the Author of this Discourse, and refuted by the ^*Orthodox Evangelist, yet there are some unhappy Passages of that nature, in a Book of Humiliation, which goes under Mr Hooker's Name, by which, incredible wrong has been done to that great Author. It may be, it will be to the satisfaction of some Readers, to see what Dr. Goodwin has written concerning Mr. Hooker's Books, about preparation for Christ, who, in his Epistle prefixed to Mr. Hooker's Sermons on Act. 2.37. has these words; There has been published long since many parts, and pieces of this Author, upon this Argument, Sermon-wise, preached by him, here in England, yet having been taken by an Unskilful Hand, which upon his recess into those remoter parts of the World, was bold, without his privity or consent to Print, and Publish them (one of the greatest injuries that can be done to any Man) it came to pass his genuine meaning, and this in points of so high a nature; and in some things differing from the common Opinion, was diverted in those printed Sermons, from the fair, and clear draught of his own Notions, and intentions, because so utterly deformed, and misrepresented in multitudes of passages, and in the Rest, but imperfectly, and crudely set forth. That which the Doctor says is a sufficient Vindication of the Renowned Name of Mr. Hooker, from the Reflections cast upon him, on the account of some crude expressions in those Books pretended to be his, which were never Printed with his allowance. Th• like is to be said with reference to some passages in Mr. Shepherds Sincere Convert, which have occasioned