2 San : 4 TREATISE THE FOUR COMPLEXIONS. 7 A CONSOLATORY INSTRUCTION ‘ ASAD AND ASSAULTED HEART,’ . " : ° THE TIME OF TEMPTATION. SHEWING : ‘Whence Sapness naturally arifeth, and how the AssauLTING happeneth, ‘The Whole confirmed by feveral pertinent and comrontasie TEXTS:“grhere bath ne Temptation taken you; But fut as is common to Man's But God is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the Temptation alfa make a Way to efcope, that ye may be ale to bear it. 1 Cor. x. 13. Bleffed is the Man that endureth Toston s for when beis tryed. be foal receive the Crows | f Life, which she Lord batb promifed to shem thas love bim, Jamnes i, 12.TO THE READER SCHHIS ufeful and inttrudtive Treatife of the bleffed Bebmen on The Four Com- SeSSte xt plexions, is very properly annexed to the preceding Defcription of The Way Tv ye to Chri. For, as the Foundation‘of the Chriftianity there taught, is laid cor AN in {0 deep and earneft an Exercife of Repentance, as thakes the Soul of the EZR nacural Man to the Botcom, and by that Concuilion flrs wp and brings to his View the foul Dregs of Corruption, that have hitherto lain there un difturbed: The Horror of this Sight, together with the painful Senfe of Guilt and Mifery confequent upon it, which the Author calls the Jadgement of the Soul or Con- {cience, proves a very fevere Tryal to the young Soldier of Chrift at his fit Enterance ‘upon the Warfare, And in fome Inftances it is a long as well as harp Procefs: For it my continue on a Man many Years, a5 J. B. faith in The Book of Repentance, if be dotb not tarnafily and fpeedily put on the Armour of Chrif. This is a very deplorable Condition indeed, and fometimes occurs among us at this Day: But in no Subjeéts fo predomi- nantly, ss in Souls environed with the melancholy Complexion. Efpectally if they have defiled themfelves with much grof Sin, or taken up erroncous Conccits of their having been originally reprobated by God, or having out-finned their Day of Grace. , ‘This Extremity of Spiritual Diftrefs, of which none can know or conceive the poignant ‘Anguith and Bitternefs, who have not in fome Degree felt the fame, has here a friendly Relief, Every Information is communicated, every Advice given, and every Confolation sdminiftered, which the unhappy Cafe can well require or admit, hore of the immediate Operation of the Great, and only Sufficient Comforter himfelf, To whofe joyful En- terance into the afliéted Soul the Way is here opened and cleared, by the Removal of all thofe Doubrs and Fears, which arife from the Soul’s Ignorance of its own true Nature and Effence, and of its neceffary Subjeéion, during its Abode in the Body, to the Influ- ence of the Aftral Powers, and its own natural Complexion: This beneficial Knowledge is in the following little Fraét, fundamentally, though briefly, revealed and that from fo Divine a Ground and Authority, and with fo fatisfaétory a Fulnefs and Conviétion, as to leave no Doubt either of its Truth or Worth, This ‘Treatife, being, as is fignified at the Hlead of the lait Chapter, dn Univerfal Mirror or Locking-Glafs, wherein every Seul may fee itfelf 5 and written, juft as it was reprefented by the Light of God's Spirit to the Spiritual Underfianding of the Author.