A treatise on comforting afflicted consciences - The Digital Puritan

AFFLICTED CONSCIENCES. 281days of thine appointed time. Oh ! then thou wouldst doso and so !Assure now thyself in these three cases and troubles uponthy last bed, this sincere desire of thine upright soul will begraciously accepted of our merciful God in the name ofJesus Christ ; as though, first, thy repentance had been tothe full ; secondly, thy obedience to the height ; thirdly,thy present promises, vows, and resolutions for future forwardnessand fruitfulness performed to the utmost. Forwhen all is done, Jesus Christ is all in all. He alone is theonly sanctuary and tower of everlasting safety, for everytruly humbled soul to fly unto, both in life and death. Heis made untcr us " wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,and redemption" (1 Cor. i, 30).SECT. Ill,CHAF.I.PART II.The First particular Malady set down, with a general Principle for theCure of it.I COME now, as I promised, to some special cures and particularapplication of comfortable antidotes to divers spiritualmaladies, of which Christians especially complain ; tothose terrors and temptations which are wont most to afflictsin-troubled and truly humbled souls.1. I will suppose thou art eftectually and savinglywrought upon by the preaching and power of the word ;enlightened and convinced to acknowledge and feel thyselfto be a most sinful and cursed wretch by nature ; lostand forlorn, damned and utterly undone in thyself,