SpiritualPeace and Comfort. I75 DIRECTION XXI. zi. The next advice which I muff give you is this, Pe thankful if you can but reach to a fetled Peace, and com% pofure ofyour mind , and lay not too much on the high raptures and feelings of comfort which fume do pofrefs : And ifoveryou enjoyfuckfeeling boyes, ex- peFt not that they fhouldbe either long or often. TT is the caufeofmiferable languilbng tomany a poor foul to have fuch importunate expetations of fuch pionate Joyes, that they think without thefe they have no true comfort at all ; no witnefs of the Spirit, noSpirit of Adoption , no joy in the holy Ghof. Some think that others have much of this though they have not, and therefore they tor- ment themfelves becaufe it is not with them as with others ; when alas, they little know how it goes with others ! Some tafle of fuch raptures fome- times themfelves have had ; and therefore when theyare gone, they think they are forfaken, and that
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