Spiritual Peace and Comfort: 141. And it is a great advantage to have the helpof fenfe it fell for our Confolation.I hope you yet remember the choife particular Providences bywbich God bath manifefed to you his Goodnefs, even from your youth till now : efpecially his frequent anfwering ofour prayers I Methinks thefe thould do fomething to the difpelling of thofe black diftrufful thoughts ofGod. I could with you would write them down, and oft review them. And when Temptations next come, remember with David, who helpt you againft the Lyon and the Bear, and thereforefear not the uncircumcifedPhiliíline. 2. And you may make great ufe all() ofthe ex- periences ofothers. Is it not a great fatisfadion to to hear twenty, or forty, or an hundred Chriftians, of the godlieft Lives, to make the very fame com- plaints as you do your felf ? The very fame com- plaintshave I heard from as many. By this you may fee your cafe is not fingular, but the ordinary cafe of the tender& Confciences and of many that walk uprightly with God. And alfo is it not a great help to you, to hear other Chriftians tell how they have come into thofe troubles and how they have got out of them ? what hurt them ? and what helped them ? and howGod dealt with themwhile they lay under'them ? How defirous are difeafed perfons to talkwith others that have had the fame difeafe ? and to hear them tell, how it took them; and how it held them, and fpecially what cured them, Befides, it will give you much ftronger hopes of cure and recovery topeace ofconfcience, when you hear of fo many that have been cured of the fame difeafe. More- over, is it not a reviving thing, to hear Chriftians open
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