The Praïlice ofPiety. comforts,exercfs, not putifh- ments.They are affurances vnto thee, that thou art in the right way : for the way to Heauewis by the gates of hell: that is, by fuffering pains in the body,and fuch doubting: in the mind :that thy elite in this life being eue. ry way made bitter,the ioyes of eternal life may relifh-vnto thee better and more`fweet. If Sathan tell thee that thou hail no faith, becaufe then haft nofeeling: meditate, a That the trueft faith bath oftentimes the leaftfeeling; and greateft doubts; but fo long as thou hatefl fuch doubting, they {hall not be laid vnto thy charge; for they belong to the 4e1h, from which thou art di- "forced. When thy fleth Thall perifbp thy weake inward man which hates them,and loues the 'Lord ferns, íhall be Caned. z.That it is a better faith to believe without feeling, then H h with '697 ..r....... `Sathans fecond a(áault. The Chri- flians en- counter. Pfàl Mat.9.24. Mat; i 7. ; Ssc. Ma. t 4f3`a Iob 3;.i9
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