Chap.r.Sett.r r ·J.oildng unt1 :}t'fu'S. Book.IV.Pan:.V. 865 ------------------------------------+---------------- duty, and fom(times you are d~ll, and dead ; fometimes the leaft temptation ; the leaft fnare 1s ready co make you fall, a1,1d fomecimes againe though (lrong windes and tempefts blow upon you yet you--a£f-able to ftand, like mount Zion, that cannot ba rem~ved .·Oh what's the reafon of the difference ? furely according to th~ incomes of the Spirit of God; this difference comes not from our felves, but from the Sptr-it; as this exciting quickning grace is ready, or a far off, f? is ?ur condition; you k~1ow what changes David ufually found tn hts own heart, fomettmes he was able to truft in God, and at other times he was fo call: down as ifhe had no ftrength within him, and whence all this, but from the ebbings and flowings of exciting·quickning grace ? well may we cry come holy Spirit; Oh what a comfortable condition would it be, if our fpirits never lay ftill, but we were alwayes hungering, thirfting, or moving after God and goodneffe. 6. That the holy Ghoft-mighc according to his office comfort: his Saiacs amidft all their affliCtions; this was that which Chrift had fo often told his Apoftles, I will not leave you comfert!tjfe, I ·'11!ill come untoJOH. --ANd I will pray the Father, and he fha/l J h 1 18 giveyou another Comforter,thllt he maJ abide lll'itb JOH for e-z,er.- ~e;, {~. ' But the Comforter, which is the holy Gh,oJI, whom the Father will Ver. ::.6, fend in my Name, he fh.dl teachJoH 11/l thing!.--But when the Joh.xf.16. Comforter U come_, whom J wi/1fend Hnto JOU from thl r athrr, C'l:len the Spirit oftruth which preceedethfrom the Father, he fhal/ teflijie ofme.--Jf I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto Jolt, butif I depart I wilt fond him untO )ON., Joh.t6. 17, But how is it that the Spirit comforts Saints? I anfwer in thefe particulars, * r. The Spirit di.fcovers Gn, and bends the heart to mourne for fin; and fuch aforrow as this is the feed and matter of true 11- see at tart.t romfort: as {ofeph! heart was full of joy when his eyes poured or. Reynolds, out tt'ares on Benj;~mim neck, fo there is a certaine feed and mat. on P!'al1• 0 • ter of joy in fpiritual mourning ; I know they are contrary but ". yet they may be fubordinate to each other, as a darkeand m'uddy colour may be a fit g~ound to lay gold up~n.' Certain'y there is , ~~weer complacency 1n an ~umble and fpmtual heart to be vile ~nIts own eyes. But efpectally the fruit of it is joy, and great ;oy. .A woman when foe is in traveile hath jorrow, brcar1[e her Joh.J6.:r. Sff[f houre
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