Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 293 lieve it then you are telling it him ? Should he be Rill asking you over and over every day, Father atn I forriven,or no? Should not one anfwer ferve his turn? Will you not believe that your money is in your purfe orchef any longer then you are lookingon it? Or that your corn is growing onyour land, or your cattle in your grounds any longer then you are look- ing on them ? By this Courfe a Rich man fhould have no more content then a beggar, longer then he is looking on his money, or goods, or lands z and when he is looking on one, he fhould again lofe the Comfort ofall the reff. What hash God given you a Memory for, but to lay up former apprehenfions and difcoveries, and experiences, and make ufe of them on all meet occafions afterwards? Let me there- fore perfwade you to this great and necef'fary work. When God bath once refolvedyour Doubts, and (hewed you the truth of your Faith, Love or Obe- dience, Write it down, ifyou can, inyour book ( as I have advifed you in my Treatife ofReff) Such a day upon ferious perufal of my heart I found it thus and thus with myfelf. Or at Icaft, Write it deep in your Memory ; And do not fuffer any fancies, or fears, or light furmifes tocaufe you ro queflion this again, as long as you fall not from the Obedience or Faithwhich you then difcovzred. Alas, mans Ap- prehenfon is a molt mutable thing : If you leave your foul open to every new apprehenfion; you will never be fetid : You may think twocontrary things ofyour felfinan hour.Youhave not always the fame opportunity for right difcerning, nor the fame clear- nefs ofApprehenfion,nor the fame outward means to helpyou, nor the fame inward Afiif;ance of the Ho- Y3 ly,
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