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Conversion exemplified in the instance of a gracious gentlewoman now in glory / written from her own mouth and appointment, by her dearest friend ...
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to return This I looked upon as an evil to which I was very prone even to grow weary of the strict wayes of God I will not cause mine Anger to fall upon thee And again I am Merciful and will not keep mine Anger for ever I was convinced that I did deserve present wrath and eternal wrath did not Mercy thus step in The last thing is direction to a duty wherein to expect the dispensation of mercy acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed which requires not an empty heartless verbal Confession but Confession with hatred of sin Faith in the pardon of it and endeavour to reform it Psal 103. 8 9. The Lord is merciful and gracious slâ—w to anger and plenteous in Mercy He will not alwayes chide neither will he keep his Anger for ever This place supported my Faith under the consideration of my merrit which was Wrath from God whereto he declares himself slow and also it ministred hope to me of deliverance from those corrective Effects of God's displeasure against sin in me which he out of love laid upon me Isa 41. 10. Fear not for I am with thee be not dismaied for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right-hand of my Righteousness This Text was applyed to me when I was beset with variety of troubles some inward some outward Many from my self respecting the state I stood in and the years I had attained to Some from my Relations in the flesh whose troubles were many and their outward condition clouded and the spiritual estate of many of them not such as I was satisfied in But from this place God by the right-hand of his Righteousness as he here calls it reached out support to me Fear not be not dismayed With both these did I at this time contend not only fear but dismaying discourageing fear for both the nature and dress of things as the image of them appeared to me was very tremendious Therefore God applyed comfort to me in a term of relation I am thy God as in a gracious Promise of presence I will be with thee and unsolds what he means by being with me viz. to help in every difficulty and uphold under every burthen Isa 26. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid upon thee because he trusteth in thee Ibid. 40. 31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint John 3. 16. God so loved the World that he gave his only begâ—tten Son that whâ—soever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life Isa 43. 25. But I even I am he that blottâ—th out thy transgression for mine own sake Psal 32. 8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the Way that thou shalt go and guide thee with mine eye Rom. 4. 5. To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the â—â—godâ—y his Faith â—s counted for Righteousness These Scriptures eminently holding forth the most Estâ—utials in Christianity were of very great use to me not once or twice but so oft as I had recourse to them which was very frequent being oft in tryals which made them seasonable especially Psal 32. 8. formerly wrote down was a Scripture which I repaired to in all doubtful cases I was taught from John 3. 16. that the Love of God was the Fountain of my happiness being that out of which Christ himself was given for me Rom. 4. 5. instructed me that a Righteousness laid hold on by Faith justifieâ— without the least addition of works wrought by me which of how great use soever being indeed one end of that which Christ hath suffered and done for me that I might be God's Workmanship in him created to good works yet no material meritorious no or the least moving cause why my person should be accepted of God In this respect I count them all lost as Paul did his Phil. 3. 8. The Prayer of Christ recorded John 17. 20 21 22 23 24. afforded me so great Comfort that I cannot be satisfied without leaving a particular account of it The words are Neither pray I for these alone but for them also that shall believe in me thorow their Word that they may be all one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the World may believe that thou hast sent me And the Glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me For thou lovedst me before the Foundation of the World The Love of Christ in these words set forth did and doth so drink up my spirit as I am like one drunken with Wine not able to speak of the sweetness of it Well to understand and savour his Words in this Prayer is if I know any thing of such entertaiment to be led into his Banqueting-house and Wine-cellar of whose Love the Song of Solomon speaks It being my lot to live in an age wherein Errour abounded I think fit to mention those Scriptures which perswaded me from some of those Errours of the most dangerous nature as most evidently against the foundation of that Covenant which God had confirmed to me The one was the freedom of an unregenerate will to believe in Christ Ephes 2. 8. it is thus written By Grace ye are saved thorow Faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Besides the experience I had of my natural inability to receive Christ by Faith this Text tells me expresly That men have it not from themselves but that it is the Gift of God I have â—â—aâ—d this to be a point of great controversie among the Learned wherâ—in if the experience of a sinner burthened with guilt may moderate I doubt not but to have a determination to the sense I have given Again Jer. 31. 19. I read thus After I was turned I repented and after I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed and even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth This place shews that God's work upon us goes before our works towards him Man cannot turn till he is turned or smite upon his thigh before he his instructed I therefore agree with those who say that the carnal will is in bondage to sin as well as the carnal mind neither of them being subject to the Law of God or can be For I do conceive that without supernatural instruction which I take to be the same with spiritual