302 Flow to live by Faith in timeofTemptation, TheRemedy of this. Y. s with the riling of duff ; and the heart toffed too and fro with unquietnes, as the waves ofthe Sea when the winds areboiFlerous;confcience by recoiling upon the foule can- not conceive,or give right notice of its true flare and tem- per. Troubled waterwill not give backe the reflec`fion of the countenance : noran afflic`fed Spirit the true difpofiti- on ofthe inner man. When the poore Chriftian makes fearch into himfelfe,the temptation firft puts forth it felfe, wherewith theheart is daunted, and thereupon conclu- deth, that no grace doth lodge or abide inhim, becaufe at ñrfl fight it doth not appeare. Vnto thefe maybe added, that gocd men are fometimes pettifhly difpofed, to calf I away all they have as nothing,becaufe they have not what they defire,or imagine others to enjoy :herein refembling littlechildren,who for want of fome fmall trifle that they delire, or force oftheir felloweshave, throw awaymany things much more precious. But not to inquire further intothe caufes ofthis milfa- king, the remedy is ; Firff, hemuff know, that as in ficke perfonswe fee it commeth to paffe, they thinke there is nohope oflife, when the Philiician and Flanders by fee certaine andun- doubted tokens ofhealth : So it is oftentimes in thefe fpi- rituali fickneffes. Secondly, It is thewifdome of a Chrillian in this cafe to obferve themarke that Satandrives at,which is to hide from his fight the graces of' theSpirit that he might bring Um to difpaire. This being the Divels aime, he muff ffirre up himfelfe to believe, and rowle his foule upon ChriIf for falvation. For whenhecan fee no grace inhis foule, he cannot but fee himfelfe tobe miferable, and fo called tocome unto Chriaf the fountaine of living waters, that by him he might be repleniíhed, in him he might finde rcfrefhing. Againe, taking courage to believe, he idifappoints Sathar, who intendeth not fo muchto draw htm into fecurity, as to forcehim to call away all hope of imercy. Oh,t
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